signed first edition Letter
1880 · London
London, 1880. Letter. Very good. Single folded leaf, [4] p. handwritten. July 8, 1880 addressed from 22 Westborne St., Dear M Ridgeway, I was very sorry that we did not meet. I do not intend to go to Carlisle unless compelled by something unforeseen. I was to have stayed with Wakefield the [--] but I am [--] of Agricultural meetings. I don't think Landerman has anything to [--] from this Distrubance Bill in this amendment from. The summary power of Ejectment is [--] and arbitrary. English owners have no such power and [--] Irish? Two more pages, mentions New Zealand, James [Key] Caird C.B., and South Africa. Yours very truly, James Howard. Howard was an English agriculturalist, Liberal politician, manufacturer, and Bedfordshire landowner. In 1862, Howard bought a large part of the Clapham, Bedfordshire, estates of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, and established a model farm there, farming his land under new scientific methods. In 1864, Giuseppe Garibaldi visited the Howard brothers' Britannia Works and planted a Giant Sequoia (then known as the Wellingtonia gigantea) on the lawn there as a memento of his visit. (Inventory #: 1947)