LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('R.Cobden'), TO RICHARD FORD, explaining in considerable detail, because he had found she had subsequently been recommended to Ford, about their horrendous experience in employing Miss Fichtner as their daughter's governess, how much effort they had made to prepare her for the job and to make her feel at home, all to no avail, and that they had been obliged to dismiss her; Cobden also comments on the current political situation ('...I observe what you say about the predicament into which our aristocratic rulers have brought themselves & the Country. - But this revolt against the equestrian order will prove only a temporary ebullition. - We are a lord-loving people, & shall soon return to our old allegiance...the Tory, Whig & Radical Mob think they are deposing their masters & are enjoying their saturnalia for a while - why shouldn't they...'), 10 pages, closely written octavo, tipped onto an album leaf, [Dunsford House], Midhurst, 10 July 1855
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