Gladstone’s Library

Gladstone’s Library’s Archives contains Gladstone’s personal correspondence and papers. The archives are also notable for holding the archives of the Detection Club and the Crime Writers’ Association, as well as prominent theologians and figures within the Churches of England and Wales.

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Gladstone's Library, Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire, CH5 3DF

Opening Hours

Monday to Friday, 09.30 -13:00 and 14:00 – 16.30

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Items from Gladstone’s Library

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    GLA/GGA/2/7/1/102 Letters from anonymous and named members of the general public to William Ewart Gladstone. Item number 54 in this file is a letter sent from “Five Liberal children” to William Ewart Gladstone apologizing for accidentally knocking him on the head with a branch in their excitement on seeing him.

    1888 Catalogue Link
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    GLA/GGA/2/10/1/15- Letters from William Ewart Gladstone to Catherine Gladstone, née Glynne, 1839-1843. In this rough copy William Ewart Gladstone drafts his proposal to Catherine Glynne, later his wife of 59 years.

    1839 Catalogue Link
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    GLA/GGA/2/7/1/103/32- Letters from anonymous and named members of the general public to William Ewart Gladstone. In item number 327 in this file, a correspondent hopes that ‘God grant Mr Gladstone many, and, Happy Years and inspire him to defend the causes of women’.

    1888 Catalogue Link