[From crow-scarer to Member of Parliament: Joseph Arch, Liberal politician.] Autograph Letter Signed [to A. G. L. Rogers], approving of a ‘rural’ leaflet on behalf of the Liberal Party.

See Arch’s entry in the Oxford DNB. From the papers of Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1864-1944), son of the economist Thorold Rogers [James Edwin Thorold Rogers] (1823-1890), for information regarding whom see his entry in the Oxford DNB. At the time of this letter the 1892 general election was looming, and the recipient was Secretary of the Publications Department of the National Liberal Federation. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Reads: ‘Dear Sir / I quite approve of the leaflet you have sent me if Circulated widely there is no doubt it will have a telling effect on the rural voters in favour of the Liberal party I sincerely hope it may / Faithfully yours / Joseph Arch’. In view of Arch’s agricultural background it is of interest that Rogers would go on to edit the seventh and final volume (1902) of his father’s ‘History of Agriculture’.