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Description: | Letter of thanks from Joseph Cowen to printer Thomas Allan for a volume of Joe Wilson's songs. Dated 30th October, 1890.Joseph Cowen, son of Sir Joseph Cowen, a prominent citizen and mine-owner of Newcastle, was born in 1831, and educated at Edinburgh University. In 1874 he was elected member of parliament for the borough on the death of his father, who had held the seat as a Liberal since 1865. Known for his Radical politics, Cowen was an admirer of Garibaldi, Mazzini and Kossuth and a sympathizer with Irish Nationalism.In 1886 Thomas Allan ordered one thousand of Joe Wilson's Temperance songs to be printed at an enormous profit, and four years later put together an edition of Wilson's songs under the title 'Tyneside songs and drolleries, readings and Temperance songs'. Around this time Allan was sending out a number of song books he had recently published, largely material by Joe Wilson, and there are a number of other letters in the collection which acknowledge the receipt of Allan's publications.The letter forms part of a collection held by Newcastle City Library. The collection comprises much of the original material collected by Thomas Allan for the publication of 'Allan's Tyneside songs'. From original Ned Corvan manuscripts to photographs of Joe Wilson, and correspondence from local figures such as Joseph Cowen, the collection provides a genuinely fascinating glimpse of some of the region's best known composers. The material dates from 1860 to 1890, spanning the dates of the various publications of the book in 1862, 1863, 1864, 1872, 1873 and 1891. ; Song manuscripts, correspondence and broadsides collected for the publication of Allan's Tyneside Songs. | Rights holder: | rights holder : Newcastle City Library | Subjects: | letter Advertisements | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:L0114100 | Go to resource |
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