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Henry Hunt papers concerning his business in France
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Henry Hunt papers concerning his business in France, 1801-1833.
Physical Description
0.21 linear feet (1 box)
Language
English; French
Notes
Correspondence bound in buff Middle Hill boards.
In English and French.
Provenance
Phillpps MS 21012, 22395, 26187. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006.
Biographical / Historical Note
Henry Hunt, known as "Orator Hunt" for his 1816 Spa Fields speeches in favor of universal suffrage and Parliamentary reform, was a radical British politician. An important influence on the Chartist movement and a pioneer of mass politics, Hunt was imprisoned for more than two years after the Peterloo Massacre in 1819. After his release, he began several business enterprises, including a shoe-blacking manufacture, in an attempt to restore his financial security. He opposed the 1832 Reform Bill as insufficiently democratic, which cost him his seat in Parliament, and died of a stroke in 1835.
Summary
Letters and documents almost entirely concerning Henry Hunt et Cie, a business partnership for the manufacture and sale of "English shoe-blacking" in France involving Hunt, his son Henry, Charles Wolseley, Frederick Slade, and William Eyre. The collection includes a notarized copy of the 1828 partnership agreement; business correspondence between Henry Hunt and Henry Hunt, Jr. and between Hunt and Francis Moore, the partnership's Paris representative; legal correspondence in French and English concerning the liquidation of the partnership; and transcripts of the dissolution proceedings before the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris, 2 November 1829. Subjects include difficulties with the shipment of bottles, labels and blacking; disagreements over various expenses and bills; and Hunt's resolving to liquidate his investment. Several letters contain brief mention of Hunt's political opinions and current events, particularly letters written during his service in Parliament in 1831.
The collection also contains two December, 1816 letters from Hunt to William Hone defending the peaceable Spa Fields meeting and his own conduct there; a February 1826 letter from Hunt to Alexander Baring, ironically thanking him for dubbing Hunt "the Blacking Man" and declaring himself as good a member of Parliament as "the Loanmonger or the Stockjobber;" and a lengthy 1833 letter to John Foster in which Hunt surveys the current political scene.
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Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
September 11, 2009
References
Henry Hunt Papers Concerning His Business in France. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Henry Hunt Papers Concerning His Business in France. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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