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Elizabeth Gaskell Letter concerning Haworth sanitation

Archive File: MS 2266/06 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Elizabeth Gaskell Letter concerning Haworth sanitation

Level: File

Classmark: MS 2266/06

Date(s): 29 Sept 1853

Size and medium: 1 letter; 4 ff

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730515

Collection group(s): English Literature

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Letter, written from Plymouth Grove, presumably to same correspondent as MS 2266/05. Gaskell thanks him for his prompt assistance and complains of the difficulty of getting any parish to comply with the recommendations of the Board of Health,

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Previously sold at Sotheby’s, 27 November 1889, lot 70 (catalogue slip included with letters)

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