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IE CA CP/3/5/5/1/9/1
Title
Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh
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- 2 July 1885 (Creation)
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4 pp; Manuscript
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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
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Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.
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Note
For biographical information on Charles Bradlaugh see https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/charles-bradlaugh-archive