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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796 - 1862 (colonial statesman)

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011T/52
Scope and Contents

194 x 246 mm. A photograph of a painting of Wakefield seated in an armchair with three dogs at his feet. The annotation on the reverse states 'From a portrait painted for the New Zealand Company in 1844, and now in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand'. Photograph by Green and Hahn.

Dates: 1880 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters from Edward Wakefield to G.F. Young, 1849 - 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 278/54
Scope and Contents

Three manuscript letters to George Frederick Young, M.P., regarding political issues, with typescript copies. There is also a printed paper on the Society for the Reform of Colonial Government.

Dates: 1849 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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