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SENIOR (NASSAU WILLIAM)]
An Act for the Amendment and Better Administration of the Laws Relating to the Poor, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY NASSAU SENIOR TO DE TOCQUEVILLE, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1834

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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[SENIOR (NASSAU WILLIAM)]

An Act for the Amendment and Better Administration of the Laws Relating to the Poor, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY NASSAU SENIOR TO TOCQUEVILLE, publisher's printed cloth, light foxing, small 8vo, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1834

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"I have directed two more pamphlets to be sent by the Ambassador's bag... I have also directed a copy of the Poor Law Act and a preface of mine explaining it, to be sent" (Senior to Tocqueville, March 1835; OC, vol. 6, ii, p.74).

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