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Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (social reformer and children's writer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1822 - 1896

Biography

Thomas Hughes (1822-1896), social reformer and children's writer

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 Series

Documents relating to real estate in Wimbledon, and specifically to ‘The Firs’, 41 Copse Hill, 1863-1939

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10418/1
Scope and Contents Includes copies prepared by Warry, Robins and Burgess of legal documents (mortgage, conveyances, equitable charge, parcels and schedules, and declaration of trust), the parties including John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Maria Sarah Ludlow, Thomas Hughes, John Frederick Denison Maurice, Georgina Frances Maurice, Granville Hamilton Forbes and Frederick James Tollemache, seven items tied as six, 1863-1872; and correspondence, accounts, statement of costs, report on drains, copy of the Wimbledon...
Dates: 1863-1939
 Fonds

John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7348
Scope and Contents Papers of John Ludlow and of the Ludlow, Liot and Des Graz families. Ludlow's correspondence includes bundles of letters from Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, 1850-1896; Charles Kingsley and his wife, 1848-1868, with Ludlow's letters to them until 1855; Norman Macleod, editor of Good Words, 1860-1871; Charles Blachford Mansfield, chemist, 1848-1854; and Frederick Denison Maurice, theologian, 1847-1871, with Ludlow's replies from 1852. Other correspondents, represented by a...
Dates: 1750-1925 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Series

Letter from Thomas Hughes to G. Thomson, 4 Feb. 1892

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8990/256
Scope and Contents

Thanks for dividend, receipt enclosed; the Church

Dates: 4 Feb. 1892
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).
 File

Letter from Thomas Hughes to his son Jim, 11 January 1892

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10304/35
Scope and Contents

Written from U[ffington] House [Chester], concerning arrangements for a meeting with Jim in London, domestic news, and unrest in Mexico. With a portrait print, 'Thomas Hughes in 1857', engraved by Emery Walker after the painting by Lowes Dickinson.

Dates: 11 January 1892
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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