TC TO THOMAS BALLANTYNE ; 15 February 1843; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18430215-TC-TB-01; CL 16: 50
TC TO THOMAS BALLANTYNE
15 Feb. 1843
Can you without much difficulty ascertain for me how many persons were killed at the old Manchester Peterloo?1
TC-TB, 15 Feb. Pbd: A. Carlyle, NL 1:282 inc. Thomas Ballantyne (1806–71; ODNB), newspaper ed.; propagandist against the Corn Laws; see TC to TB, 23 Feb. 1839, and TC to TB, 16 Aug. 1841.
1. See TC to JWC, 16 Aug. 1842, and TC to TB, 28 Feb.