Lot: 112
George Bradshaw (1800-1853, founder of Bradshaw's Railway Guides): an archive comprising 1853 In Memoriam card, dried foliage gathered from his grave in 1856, an 1853 memorandum issued by members of the Committee of the Manchester & Salford Peace Society expressing their sorrow at the death of “their much valued friend and colleague George Bradshaw”; a clerk's copy of Bradshaw's will; offprints of Press obituaries; a photogravure of his widow (d.1875); and 1870 printed documents concerning The War Victims' Fund Committee of which his son William Bradshaw was a member. The copy will and 1853 memorandum are split the along folds requiring repair.