Among the incoming letters, [which have been arranged alphabetically] are some from the following M.P.'s - Elkanah Armitage, Thomas Bazley, William Biggs, John Bowring, John Bright, Joseph Brotherton, William Brown, John Cheetham, Richard Gardner, Thomas Milner Gibson,Alex. Henry, Joseph Hume, James Kershaw, William Scholefield, J.B. Smith, Ralph Thicknesse, Sir Joshua Walmsley, William Williams. There is also one letter each from Charles Dicker. Sam Bamford and John Stuart Mill, while the lowest level of literate society is represented by the 120 or so working men, who wrote in response to the advertisement, in April 1851, of a prize essay competition.
