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George Dyer manuscript material : 17 items, 1792-1824

Title: George Dyer manuscript material : 17 items 1792-1824

To Lucy Aikin, historian : 1 autograph letter signed : no date : (MISC 3616a) : asking her to not request in public that he begin an autobiography.

ArchivalResource: 17 items

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Wakefield, Gilbert, 1756-1801. Letters, 1799, Dorchester Gaol.

Title: Letters, 1799, Dorchester Gaol.

[1] 1799, June 22, to Mr. Levin [2 p. with stampless cover on conjugate leaf]. Thanks Levin for assistance and describes situation in jail. Additional note to Alicia Levin from her daughter, A. Wakefield, on conjugate leaf. [2] 1799, August 25, to Mrs. Levin [3 p. with stampless cover]. Writes of situation and thoughts in jail.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847. The library companion, or, The young man's guide and the old man's comfort in the choice of a library / by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, 1792-ca. 1830.

Title: The library companion, or, The young man's guide and the old man's comfort in the choice of a library / by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, 1792-ca. 1830.

First edition of The Library Companion (London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1824) with two leaves of holograph manuscript written by Francis Wrangham, thirty-three ALS, and twenty-seven portraits and other illustrations tipped in. Manuscript material by Wrangham relates to his review of Dibdin's manuscript; also present is an ALS, 1822, from Dibdin to Wrangham announcing Wrangham's acceptance into the Roxburghe Club. Other letters, 1792-1830, mostly to Wrangham, are from English literary contemporaries of Dibdin, many also pictured in illustrations, including Lindley Murray, T. J. Pettigrew, Adam Clarke, Charles Burney, Robert Southey, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield, William Gifford. Many letters discuss literary works and are referenced in the text by pencilled annotations. Also present is a broadside prospectus, printed by William Pickering, of John Fox's The Book of Martyrs, which was to have been edited by Dibdin.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

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Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824. Critical annotations on Gilbert Wakefield's work, after 1791.

Title: Critical annotations on Gilbert Wakefield's work, after 1791.

Manuscript annotations on Gilbert Wakefield's translation of the New Testament, published by the Philanthropic Press of London in 1791.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

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Dyer, George, 1755-1841. George Dyer manuscript material : 17 items, 1792-1824

Title: George Dyer manuscript material : 17 items, 1792-1824

· To Lucy Aikin, historian : 1 autograph letter signed : no date : (MISC 3616a) : asking her to not request in public that he begin an autobiography. · To John Aikin, physician and writer : 1 autograph letter : w/m = 1801 : (MISC 3616b) : asking advice. · To David Booth, lexicographer and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 29 May 1821 (G'ANA 0034) : mentions tea with William Godwin. · To Mary Hays, writer : 8 autograph letters signed : 1792 - 1797 : (MISC 2164-2171) : two of the letters contain notes to Elizabeth Hays ; all letters published in full in Marilyn L. Brooks's Correspondence of Mary Hays. · To a Mr. Huntsman at Longman, Hurst & Co. : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Mar 1824 : (MISC 0676) : regarding his Privileges of the University of Cambridge. · To Capel Lofft, radical editor and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : w/m = 1806 : (MISC 3616f) : regarding Lofft's mention of him in the preface of Robert Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. · To the Rev. Mr. Robinson in Chesterton, near Cambridge : 2 autograph letters signed : [dates uncertain] : (MISC 3616d-e) : explaining that he cannot get away because he has been called in to act as "one of the overseers" of his father's parish ; concerning the disposal of his father's goods so that he sent to the workhouse for nonpayment of debts. · To Gilbert Wakefield, biblical scholar and religious controversialist : 1 autograph letter signed : ca. 1794 : (MISC 3616c) : concerning the production of one of his books, etc. · To an unknown gentleman : 1 autograph letter signed : ca. 1794 : (MISC 3616g) : describing the last days and death of their friend the Rev. Mr. Robinson.

ArchivalResource: 17 items

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Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847. The library companion, or, The young man's guide and the old man's comfort in the choice of a library / by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, 1792-ca. 1830.

Title: The library companion, or, The young man's guide and the old man's comfort in the choice of a library / by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, 1792-ca. 1830.

First edition of The Library Companion (London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1824) with two leaves of holograph manuscript written by Francis Wrangham, thirty-three ALS, and twenty-seven portraits and other illustrations tipped in. Manuscript material by Wrangham relates to his review of Dibdin's manuscript; also present is an ALS, 1822, from Dibdin to Wrangham announcing Wrangham's acceptance into the Roxburghe Club. Other letters, 1792-1830, mostly to Wrangham, are from English literary contemporaries of Dibdin, many also pictured in illustrations, including Lindley Murray, T. J. Pettigrew, Adam Clarke, Charles Burney, Robert Southey, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield, William Gifford. Many letters discuss literary works and are referenced in the text by pencilled annotations. Also present is a broadside prospectus, printed by William Pickering, of John Fox's The Book of Martyrs, which was to have been edited by Dibdin.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

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Autograph letter signed from John Carey (1756-1826), undated, undated

Title: Autograph letter signed from John Carey (1756-1826), undated, undated

ArchivalResource: 1 Folder

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Wakefield, Gilbert, 1756-1801. Autograph letter signed : Dorchester Gaol, to the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, 1800 Nov. 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Dorchester Gaol, to the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, 1800 Nov. 1.

Concerning family matters, a Greek translation, mutual friends, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270586233 View

Letters and documents from England, 1618-1938.

Title: Letters and documents from England, 1618-1938.

Correspondence, documents.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

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Wakefield, Gilbert, 1756-1801,. Autograph letter from Gilbert Wakefield, Hackney, to George Steevens [manuscript], 1793 September 2.

Title: Autograph letter from Gilbert Wakefield, Hackney, to George Steevens [manuscript], 1793 September 2.

About the editing of classical texts.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 23 x 18 cm.

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Letter from Thomas Erskine to Gilbert Wakefield, 1798., 16 February 1798

Title: Letter from Thomas Erskine to Gilbert Wakefield, 1798. 16 February 1798

ArchivalResource: 5pp

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