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‘If it isn’t done there will be a Row’: Augustine Birrell author and Liberal Party politician. Autograph Letter Signed to A. G. L. Rogers Secretary of the Liberal Publication Department concerning a pamphlet which they must ‘concoct’ together.

24126 — Without place or date ‘Saturday’ but 1891 or 1892. See Birrell’s entry in the Oxford DNB. From the papers of Arthur George Liddon Rogers 1864-1944 son of the editor of the economist Thorold Rogers and written while Rogers was Secretary of the Liberal Publication Department a position to which he was appointed in November 1891. 1p foolscap 8vo on ruled paper. In good condition apart from two small burn holes. Folded once. Signed ‘A Birrell’. Twenty-four lines of text in a bold forceful hand. Begins: ‘My dear Rogers / Sir Wm Harcourt spoke to me last night about a leaflet or short pamphlet he is most last word underlined twice anxious should be out at once - dealing graphically with the whole Question of the Tory treatment of the P. C. Bill up to the 19th. clause - shewing how they have sought to restrict its operation & have wasted hours over trifles as they did last night wrangling whether the meeting was to be called a Council or an Assembly’. The final paragraph deals with the method by which they ‘might together concoct what is wanted’ by tying together ‘the parliamentary papers & division lists & the Times Reports’ going through them and picking out what is ‘most salient & telling’. ‘If it isn’t done there will be a Row. We have a large body of Critics’. Without place or date (‘Saturday’), but 1891 or 1892. unknown