Bidspirit auction | VINCENT HENRY: (1813-1878)

VINCENT HENRY: (1813-1878) - VINCENT HENRY: (1813-1878) British Chartist leader and ant-slavery campaigner, active in the formation of early Working Men's Associations in Great Britain. A.L.S., Henry Vincent , three pages, 8vo, Talbot Place, Stamford Hill, 4 th January 1844, to [William] Lovett. Vincent states that he wrote to Mr. Statham regarding topics for lectures but has not received a reply, continuing to explain 'I am ready to lecture for you on Wednesdays 17 th and 24 th if the subjects meet with your approval. I should like the first to be on ” Civil and Religious Liberty ”, and the second on ” Commerce - its influence upon the social comforts, intellectual progress, and Civil and Religious Liberties of Mankind ” and remarking 'I think if these subjects are well advertised they will draw good audiences' , further discussing where short notices could be published, including in the Morning Advertiser , and asking for an immediate reply 'or I shall be thrown out with other engagements' . Some light age wear and a small, single spindle hole to the centre, only very slightly affecting the signature, otherwise VG William Lovett (1800-1877) British activist and leader of the Chartist political movement, one of the leading London-based artisan radicals of his generation.