Found 1 collection related to Businessmen -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence

George Moore, English philanthropist and businessman. To Horace Mayhew, writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1841] : (MISC 0046) : from Kidwelly, South Wales : begins, "There is a subject for you, I think, in the following circumstance. I have just now opened the Swansea & Carmarthan Line, and the women here wear such high hats that they cannot sit in the carriage ..."; with ink sketches of women in the hats. -- 1 autograph letter signed : "March the somethingth" [no year] : (MISC 0047) : from Putney : begins, "Can you illustrate this? A friend of mine is courting a Scotch lass; she is already wedded to Highland customs ... She has presented him with a genuine Maude, or Scotch Shawl, and insists upon his wearing it ..."; with ink sketches of the shawled gentleman in various predicaments ("in a gale"; "absence of mind"). less