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Papers
Collection of letters to Joshua Jebb, Surveyor General of Convict Prisons, from E.Y.W. Henderson and others, with notes giving copies of commitments of various convicts and ticket-of-leave holders, and a sheet giving statistics on convicts, 1854); 15 rolls of microfilm containing mostly family correspondence, especially that between Yeamans and his second wife Maria, whom he married in 1856.
Our Convict Systems
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Modern Prisons
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Report on the Discipline and Management of the Convict Prisons, 1850
The first report by the newly-appointed director of the national system of prisons. Jebb pioneered in enlightened prison reform, borrowing from American example. This report marks the beginning of the general extension of progressive reform. Material on Australia, Dartmoor Prison, cellular confinement, juvenile treatment.
Letters
Two letters written by Cobden to Colonel Jebb on 19 July 1849 and 20 August 1849. The first letter requests information on the deportation of the Chartist prisoner Mullins, held in Pentonville Prison. In the second letter Cobden accepts Jebb's invitation to accompany him on a visit to Pentonville Prison.
