Travel & Exploration
BOWRING
(Sir John, 1792-1872, M.P., F.R.S., Linguist, Governor and Ambassador, opened up trade with King Mongkut of Siam, favourite pupil of Jeremy Bentham)
Autograph letter signed to 'Dr Sir',
saying I mentioned to Dr Mackay that in the Vol: of [Alexander] Somerville lately published 'Whistler at the Plough' there is a biographical notice of me which is tolerably correct... Ever yours truly, 1 side 6 x 4½, The Athenaeum, no date, circa
Item Date: 1853
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Background
Soimerville's sketches of agricultural life, Manchester, 1852, were continued in two further volumes as 'Free Trade & the League: a Biographic History of the Pioneers of Freedom, of Opinion, Commercial Enterprise, & Civilisation, 1853. The excellent account of Bowring up to his appointment as consul in Hong Kong is in the last of these volumes, pp. 417-426. It describes many scenes of the anti-Corn Law agitation, and the enthusiasm for Bowring in the Isle of Man, where in a short space of time he overturned the monopolists' grip on economic life.
left blank margin a trifle uneven, traces of laying down by corners on blank verso
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