Detail View: Methodist Collection: Dobson letter
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Image Number:
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JRL030573tr
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Reference Number:
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PLP/34/27
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Image Title:
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Dobson letter
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Parent Work Title:
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Letter to Nehemiah Curnock
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Creator:
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Dobson, Joseph
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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1844-01-19
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Description:
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Letter to the Wesleyan minister Nehemiah Curnock, 19 January 1844, written from the Condemned Cell at York Castle the night before Dobson was hanged for murder. The Methodist mission to condemned prisoners remained very important until the abolition of the death penalty in the late 20th century.
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Language:
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English
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Subject:
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Death
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Subject:
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Methodist Church
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Subject:
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Religion
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Subject:
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Christianity
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Category of Material:
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Archives
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Sub-Category:
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Correspondence
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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19th Century CE
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Places Covered:
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England: York
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Methodist Church
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights Holder - Work:
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Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes (TMCP)
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2006-07
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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