Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee / Taxes on Knowledge

Includes:

1) Printed prospectus for the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee featuring list of committee and short history (3 copies) (2pp) (19 September 1849)

2) Printed statement, 'To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament Assembled: The Petition of the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee' (4pp) (1849)

3) Reprint of article, 'Taxes on Knowledge: Deputation to the Premier' from the Daily News (2pp) (12 March 1850)

4) Printed circular letter from C.D.Collet of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, with attached prospectus for the Association (3pp) (14 February 1851)

5) Financial report of the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee (2pp) (19 February 1851)

6) List of members of Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, with note of receipts and expenditure (1p) (February 1851)

7) Circular printed letter from C.Dobson Collet of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge regarding how far the existing unstamped publications are obstructed by the law which forbids them to publish news, with questionnaire and list of committee members (2 copies) (3pp) (15 October 1851)

8) Reprint of article, 'Taxes on Knowledge' from the Hull Advertiser (1p) (28 November 1851)

9) Printed statement, ' The Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, to the Advertisers of Great Britain', with lists of members and their voting decisions (5pp) (1851)

10) Pamphlet, 'A Statement showing the Injurious Effects of the Excise Tax upon Paper, the Tax upon Advertisements, and the Stamp Tax upon Newspapers', published by the Birmingham Association for the Abolition of the Taxes on Knowledge (8pp) (1850)

11) First Annual Report of the Committee of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (4pp) (undated)

12) Printed flyer for the General Election listing those metropolitan MPs who voted against Mr Milner Gibson's motion for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge (2 copies) (2pp) (24 March 1852)

13) Second Annual Report of the Committee of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (4pp) (8 January 1851)

14) Report by Richard Cobden of the Finance Committee of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (2pp) (25 March 1852)

15) Circular printed letter from the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge regarding the Advertisement Duty, the Association's campaign and subscriptions (4pp) (31 August 1853)

16) Financial report for the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (1p) (1852)

17) Printed notes by C.Hoggins on a legal case involving unstamped newspapers (1p) (12 January 1853)

18) Printed list of votes on the question of the total repeal of the advertising duty (2pp) (1 July 1853)

19) Financial report of the Manchester Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (4pp) (2 August 1853)

20) Analysis of the Division Lists on the Taxes on Knowledge (4pp) (14 April 1853)

21) Gazette of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (No.7) (16pp) (December 1953)

22) Printed pamphlet, 'Advice to the Publishers of Unstamped Publications', reprinted from the No.7 Gazette of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (4pp) (7 January 1854)

23) Circular printed letter from the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge regarding a resolution by Thomas Milner Gibson and pointing out anomalies in the Newspaper Law (2pp) (9 May 1854)

24) Gazette of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (No.11) (16pp) (May 1854)

25) Printed circular letter from C.Dobson Collet of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge regarding resolutions on the laws relating to stamp duty on newspapers by Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1p) (17 March 1855)

26) Gazette of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (No.16) (20pp) (December 1854)

27) Printed statement 'To the People of the United Kingdom' by the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, with accounts and list of senior membership (4pp) (1850)

28) Printed letter by Richard Moore and C.D.Collet of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge regarding resolutions imposed by Lord Palmerston (1p) (5 July 1860)

29) Printed address to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell by the Electors of the City of London regarding taxes on knowledge (2pp) (undated)

30) Printed circular letter requesting attendance at a special meeting of the Committee of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (1p) (21 October 1856)

31) Printed address of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge to William Ewart Gladstone regarding taxes on knowledge (8pp) (undated)

32) Printed petition of the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee to the House of Commons (4pp) (undated)