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Letterbooks of John Abraham
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CA RBD MSG 1112-D
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(1813-1881)
Biographical history
John Abraham was the second child named John of Thomas and Orpah Abraham, the first having died in infancy the year preceding John A.’s birth in Carlisle, Cumberland. He married Maria Hayes Tyerman. He was the younger brother of one-time Montreal Gazette newspaper owner and editor, Robert Abraham. John died in Grassendale, Lancashire, at the age of 66.
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Series consists of letterbooks containing copies of letters to family members, on subjects including books, science, family history, and the local (Liverpool) government. There are also letters to the editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal, on the subject of chloroform, and to editors of the Manchester Guardian and The Times newspapers, on subjects including decimal coinage and local cholera deaths.