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A letter, 1830, from Robert Owen to Joseph Davies.

Two letters from the social reformer Robert Owen, New Lanark, 14 November 1819 (f. 35), and [London], 11 [?December] 1819 (f. 36), to the lawyer William Tooke FRS, both seemingly referring to Owen's 'Plan to Improve the Condition of the Lower Classes', as unveiled at a meeting at Freemasons' Hall, London, the previous June, as well as personal matters.
Owen states his intention to 'act in complete unison with the principles I have patiently advocated' (f. 35), has sent copies of his address to the Prime Minister and others (f. 35) and has been busy lobbying members of parliament (f. 36). A debate on the plan in the House of Commons on 16 December came to nothing.

Two letters written in 1793, from Piccadilly Factory, Manchester, by Robert Owen, social reformer, to Samuel Oldknow, Stockport.

A manuscript copy, [?1821] (watermark 1820), of a treatise entitled The Social System, by the philanthropist and social reformer Robert Owen, apparently in the hand of his son, Robert Dale Owen.
The text differs from that published in The New Harmony Gazette, 2.8-2.24 (November 1826-March 1827), for which see Selected Works of Robert Owen, ed. by Gregory Claeys, 4 vols (London, 1993), II, 56-104.