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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)HMLAdd/180
TitleLetter from Harriet Martineau, Newcastle [upon Tyne] to Dr Kay [Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth (first baronet,1804-1877, founder of English popular education)]
Extent1 item
Date[?1839]
Description Thanks him for his 'welcome packet' and encloses a copy of the 'Gateshead Observer' which includes a mention of Kay's pamphlet and an article by a dissenting minister about popular education. She offers him hospitality, on behalf of other members of her family, on a forthcoming visit [to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland] and mentions the existence of an Education League in the town
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