[ Mary Russell Mitford, author of ?Our Village?.] Bold Signature with her address and a date, M.R. Mitford | Three Mile Cross | Easter Sunday 1843.~Three Mile Cross | Easter Sunday 1843~Signature, address and date on paper,14 x 11cm, itself laid down on s

Three pages (plus address page), bifolium, aged with remnants of the page it was tipped on, text clear as follows: Seeing by the Standard [newspaper] of tonight that measures are taking for filling up the vacancy in the representation of Huddersfield, I cannot resist the desire I fell to point out to the liberal interest of that town, how essentially their cause in general, and that of Free Trade in particular, would be served by the election of Dr. Bowring [John Bowring (see Note below) as Free Trader etc]. It is unnecessary fo me to dwell on the services he has been rendering on the Continent, nor on the degree in which his election by an important constituency would confirm and strengthen the Ministry in the course they are at heart desirous to pursue. I may add, that in point of personal talents, no man is more capable of [meeting?] the ablest competitor the opposite side can start against him. | As a native of Yorkshire (Hull) I believe I am known to some in the county; and have also perhaps some claim on the confidence of the manufacturing interest as the author of the Catechism on the Corn Laws [subscription then Postscript] I write without communication with Dr Bowring who is at present at Larkbear Exeter [his home]. Note: Sir John Bowring (1792 ? 1872) was a British political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong.