[Letters written to James Baldwin regarding "taxes on knowledge"]
Contributors: Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee (Great Britain)
Published: 1850
Language: eng
Subjects: Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee (Great Britain); Stamp duties -- Newspapers -- Great Britain.
Notes: Signed holographs including four loose pages of letterpress text dated 1850 with title: "First Report of the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee, 15, Essex Street, Strand" (5-11, [1] p. (the last page blank) ; 19 cm.)

Consists of a joint letter dated 1851 from members of the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee commending Baldwin for "the manner in which you brought forward your motion in the Birmingham Town Council for the repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge"; Letters dated 11th and 24th of Dec. from E. Collins describing the promising situation in Glasgow with the council having the repeal of "all taxes on knowledge' before them shortly;  a letter dated 1850 from J. B. Crompton, papermaker, regarding efforts to abolish the "Duty on Paper" and one dated 1850 from Thomas Beggs on behalf of the "Association for the Abolition of the Duty on Paper" inviting him to attend a meeting held to "propose one of the Resolutions".