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- 2003 (Creation)
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1 volume.
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Name of creator
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Benjamin Flower (1755-1829) was a writer and printer who travelled widely in Europe and spent six months in France in 1791. He was appointed editor of the influential provincial newspaper The Cambridge Intelligencer, which had liberal views. In 1799, he was summoned before the House of Lords for libelling Bishop Watson of Llandaff, whose political conduct he had censured. He was imprisoned in Newgate. He married Eliza Gould (d.1810) in 1800, and they had two daughters, Eliza (1803-1846) and Sarah (1805-1848). Later, he became a printer in Harlow.
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Dr Timothy Whelan, Georgia Southern University; Georgia; Donation; June 2003; 0200307768.
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A transcript by Dr Timothy Whelan of NLW MS 13587F, comprising the correspondence of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808, together with an introduction and some notes.
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No restrictions.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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- English
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English.
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The original manuscript is NLW MS 13587F.
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Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808, transcribed and ed. by Timothy D. Whelan (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2008).
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Preferred citation: NLW ex 2225