[‘If it isn’t done there will be a Row’: Augustine Birrell, author and Liberal Party politician.] Autograph Letter Signed to A. G. L. Rogers, Secretary of the Liberal Publication Department, concerning a pamphlet which they must ‘concoct’ together.

See Birrell’s entry in the Oxford DNB. From the papers of Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1864-1944), son of the editor of the economist Thorold Rogers, and written while Rogers was Secretary of the Liberal Publication Department, a position to which he was appointed in November 1891. 1p, foolscap 8vo on ruled paper. In good condition apart from two small burn holes. Folded once. Signed ‘A Birrell’. Twenty-four lines of text in a bold, forceful hand. Begins: ‘My dear Rogers / Sir Wm Harcourt spoke to me last night about a leaflet or short pamphlet he is most [last word underlined twice] anxious should be out at once - dealing graphically with the whole Question of the Tory treatment of the P. C. Bill up to the 19th. clause - shewing how they have sought to restrict its operation & have wasted hours over trifles, as they did last night wrangling whether the meeting was to be called a Council or an Assembly’. The final paragraph deals with the method by which they ‘might together concoct what is wanted’, by tying together ‘the parliamentary papers & division lists & the Times Reports’, going through them and picking out what is ‘most salient & telling’. ‘If it isn’t done there will be a Row. We have a large body of Critics’.