Medium description: | Thomas Campbell's letter to The Times addressed to Henry Brougham and calling for the establishment of a university in London aimed at the 'middling rich ... all between mechanics and the enormously rich' (cited in Harte, 1986, p.64).
Barnard (1961) states that the letter resulted in a meeting in London presided over by the Lord Mayor and that then the prospectus was issued and appeal launched; Harte (1986) merely states that various meetings, "both public and private", were arranged by Brougham and took place in 1825-26 |