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1851 Exhibition Correspondence

Commissioner’s correspondence relating to the Great Exhibition of 1851

MESSRS RIDGWAY AND CO

12 - 13 Dec 1851. Messrs Ridgway and Co. to Prince Albert

12 - 13 Dec 1851

Loose manuscript papers | 2 documents (6 pages) (whole object) | RC/A/1851/853

(853) Messrs Ridgway and Co., Staffordshire Potteries, to Prince Albert declining the award for their earthenware because the jury had passed over their porcelain. (Includes comments on the case by L.L. Boscawen Ibbetson and Dr. Lyon Playfair). (853i) Charles Beaumont Phipps to Stafford Northcote, 13 December, forwarding Messrs Ridgway's letter; Comments on the case by L.L. Boscawen Ibbetson and Lyon Playfair.

  • Creator(s)

    Messrs Ridgway and Co (writer)

    Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) (addressee)

    Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801-66) (writer)

    Sir Stafford Northcote (1818-87) (addressee)

  • 2 documents (6 pages) (whole object)

  • Object type(s)
      • printed & manuscript material
        • documents
          • correspondence
    Language(s)
    English
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