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Reference Number MS OGDEN/81
TitlePeel Letters
Datec1820s, 1850
DescriptionFour short letters of Sir Robert Peel on domestic matters to Mr Grundy and others, dated 28 Feb, 22 Nov, 20 Dec [1820s], and one completely undated; letter to Sir Robert Peel from John Round (presumably the MP), dated 16 May 1850.
Extent5 letters
AdminHistorySir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet: born in Bury, Lancashire, 1788; active in political life in the 1810s, his interests including finance and Ireland; married Julia, daughter of General Sir John Floyd, 1820; served in various offices, including as Home Secretary, 1822; created the metropolitan police force, 1829; responsible for reforms in banking and law; Prime Minister, 1834-1835, 1841-1846; responsible for the repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846; died in London following a fall from his horse, 1850. John Round: born, 1783; MP for Ipswich and Maldon; died, 1860.
CustodialHistoryPart of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related MaterialUniversity College London Special Collections also holds correspondence of Sir Robert Peel with Jeremy Bentham, 1826-1830, and other papers of Bentham relating to Peel (Ref: BENTHAM); 48 letters to Josiah Parkes, 1841-[1848] and undated, and other correspondence of Parkes, 1846-1847, on the draining of Sir Robert's estates (Ref: PARKES); 12 items of correspondence with Sir Edwin Chadwick, 1841-1846 (Ref: CHADWICK); two letters to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1835, 1842 (Ref: SDUK); a copy letter of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, to Sir Robert Peel, 1843 (Ref: BROUGHAM BL).

Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert Peel are also held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections and Oriental and India Office Collections; Public Record Office; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts; Centre for Kentish Studies; West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds; Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Record Office; National Archives of Scotland; National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division; Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; and at numerous other locations. For details see the National Register of Archives. The British Library, Manuscript Collections, holds correspondence of John Round with Sir Robert Peel, 1817-1846 (Ref: Add MSS 40264-606 passim). Essex Record Office holds Round's diaries, accounts and correspondence, 1819-1849 (Ref: D/DRh).
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
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