Athenaeum addresses, 1843-8, and report of the soirée of 1875
By: <Reprinted from the Manchester city news.>
Publisher: Printed for the directors
Published: 1875
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Notes: "Report of the directors of the Manchester athenaeum, for the year 1874" (36 p. at end) has special t.-p. with imprint: Manchester: Cave and Sever, printers by steam power, Palatine buildings, Hunt's bank. 1875.

Includes addresses by Dickens, Disraeli, Cobden, and Emerson (BAL 5270, no copy seen); speakers for the soirée of 1875 include Lord Houghton and John A. Roebuck.
Table of contents: title: Charles Dickens.; title: Rt. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli.; title: Richard Cobden.; title: Hon. George Sydney Smythe.; title: Rt. Hon. John Bright.; title: Thomas Noon Talfourd.; title: Lord Morpeth.; title: Sir Archibald Alison.; title: Richard Cobden.; title: Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson.; title: Lord Mahon.; title: The soiree of 1875: Lord Chief Justice Cockburn. The Marquis of Salisbury. Lord Houghton. Mr. J.A. Roebuck.