Cobden, Richard, (1804-1865), statesman and businessman

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Surname:	Cobden
Forenames:	Richard
Gender:	Male
Date:	1804-1865
Biography:	ODNB link for Cobden, Richard (1804-1865) Statesman and Businessman
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P152167 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P5972 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Richard Cobden

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp and papers	West Sussex Record Office	COBDEN	NRA 10616 Cobden
2	1815-65: additional corresp and papers	West Sussex Record Office	ADD MSS/2760-37,108	NRA 10616 Cobden See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989
3	1835-65: corresp, diaries and papers (41 vols)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43647-78, 43807-08, 50131, 50748-51, 65136	NRA 5927
4	1817-65: corresp and papers (c300 items)	Manchester Archives and Local Studies	M87	NRA 14284 Cobden See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975; Accessions to Repositories 1984
5	c1833-65: corresp (225 items)	University of California Library, Los Angeles: Special Collections Department		See NUC MS 71-843
6	1839-65: letters (39)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 65136
7	n.d.: account of his interview with a Turkish cotton producer concerning Sea Island cotton	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	44.1	NRA 38865 Osborn colln
8	1859: papers rel to Lord Palmerston	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	d297	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
9	1853-64: letters to Edward Alexander	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Don e 123	See Annual Report 1976-77 p18
10	1841-55: letters (10) to Edward Baines	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	Baines papers	See RP Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
11	1837-65: letters from John Bright (2 vols)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43383-4
12	1839-1846: letters to John Hill Burton	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS.9406
13	1836-56: corresp with George Combe	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 7178, 7284, 7381-7393 Passim
14	1857-65: letters to Lord Cowley	The National Archives	FO 519
15	1841-65: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 44135-6
16	1845-64: corresp with Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
17	1846-57: letters to George Holyoake	Co-operative Heritage Trust Archive	MM/96636/1-12	NRA 16403 Holyoake
18	1855-65: letters to Alexander Ireland	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 33515
19	1854-60: corresp with Lord Kimberley	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97	NRA 1274 Wodehouse
20	1860-1865: letters (66) to Louis Mallet	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections		NRA 42077 Mallet
21	1853-63: letters to WW Mitchell	West Sussex Record Office	Add MS 13886	NRA 7796 W Sussex misc
22	1853-64: letters (105) to George Moffat	Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre	F8/IV/42	NRA 39474 Moffatt
23	1845-46: corresp with John Morton	Gloucestershire Archives	D1021	NRA 11509 Morton
24	1848, 1859-63: letters mainly to Lord Palmerston	University of Southampton Library	MS 62	NRA 12889
25	1853-61: corresp with Joseph Parkes	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	PARKES	NRA 6318 Parkes
26	1854-1865: corresp with JE Thorold Rogers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng misc c 583-86, d 902, e 855, f 476-98, g 100-01; Eng lett c 334; Eng poet e 131, f 31	NRA 12396 Rogers
27	1845-61: corresp with Lord John Russell	The National Archives	PRO30/22
28	1852-60: letters to Lord John Russell	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 38080
29	1841-63: letters (16) to Samuel Smiles	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum	MS 76-1947	See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
30	1851-65: letters (115) to John Benjamin Smith	Manchester Archives and Local Studies	S330-S345	NRA 18683 Smith
31	1842-64: letters to Charles Sturge	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 64130
32	1839-53: corresp with Joseph Sturge	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43722, 50131
33	1850-64: letters (24) to Thomas Thomasson	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	Coll misc 484	NRA 28876 BLPES misc
34	c1843-1856: letters to Charles Villiers and Michael Corr van der Maeren	West Sussex Record Office	18103	See Annual Return 2015
35	1848-57: letters (15) to Sir Joshua Walmsley	West Sussex Record Office	Add MS 37108	NRA 7796 W Sussex misc
36	1840-63: letters (51) to Hugh Williams	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1979-80 p49
37	1837-64: letters (c200) to George Wilson	Manchester Archives and Local Studies		See Sturges, Economists papers 1750-1950, 1975
38	1846-1862: letters (17) to various correspondents	West Sussex Record Office	19097	See Annual Return 2018
39	1840-64: collected letters	Duke University: William R Perkins Library	18E	NRA 29594 Cobden
40	1841-65: letters	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett e 120
41	1846-64: letters (13)	Huntington Library		See Guide to literary MSS 1979
42	1834-2004: letters (to and from)	Stockport Archive Service	D1350

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