Samuel Johnson manuscripts, 1725-1784.

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...

Adam, Lena Benjamin Stevens, 1879-1940

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Wife of Robert Borthwick Adam (1893-1940). Age 60 years. Late residence 780 West Ferry St, Buffalo. Died in Miami Beach FL....

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, 1694-1773

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Born into the English aristocracy, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield had the family connections and wealth to live, in the words of the Dictionary of National Biography, as "politician, wit, and letter-writer." Upon the death of Queen Anne in 1714, his family connections enabled him to leave his life of travel and leisure to take up at the age of 20 what was the beginning of a fluctuating political career. Chesterfield was influential in government circles but the role of o...

Hoole, John, 1727-1803

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Epithet: translator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x000088 Epithet: of Add MS 28104 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x000086 John Hoole (1727-1803) translated works by Tasso, Metastasio and Ariosto into English verse. A friend of Samuel Johnson, Hoole kept a diary of Johnson's last day...

Elizabeth Swynfen Desmoulins

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Samuel Parr

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Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781?-1851

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English antiquary and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to an unidentified recipient, 1838 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662531 ...

Thomas, Percy

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George Strahan.

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Edward Cave

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Francis Stewart

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Lord Frederick North.

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Alexander Macbean.

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Styan Thirlby, ca. 1686-1753

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William Strahan

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Edward Hunt, d. ca. 1742

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Sir Thomas Phillipps.

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Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857

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English politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Molesey, to John Murray, [probably 1834]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525115 From the description of Autograph letter signed : West Molesey, Sussex, to Lord Palmerston, 1852 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531191 John Wilson Croker (1780-1857) was an Irish politician, literary critic, and author. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Lincoln's Inn, London, becoming an Iri...

G. H. Adshead

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Literary Club, London.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Alexander Pope

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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821

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Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century life. From the description of Autograph poem, unsigned, an adaptation of Francis Fawkes's "An Autumnal Ode, " no date [paper watermarked 1813]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864928 From the description of...

Robert Dodsley

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Euripides

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Epithet: playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000299.0x000153 ...

Francis (Frank) Barber, d. 1801

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Rev. G. Pearson.

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Horace

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Izaak Walton.

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Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840

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Burney was an English novelist and letter writer. Mary Hamilton was a good friend of hers. From the description of Autograph letter signed from Fanny Burney to Mary Hamilton, Norbury Park, 1784 July 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865184 English novelist, author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. Born Frances Burney, married General d'Arblay. From the description of ALS : to Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, [1781] May 31-June 5. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). ...

Samuel Johnson.

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Torquato Tasso's

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Levet, Robert

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Rev. Daniel Astle, ca. 1743-1826

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Edmond Malone.

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Sir John Hawkins.

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Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.

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Hannah More

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Nicholas Rowe, 1674-1718

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R. B. (Robert Borthwick) Adam.

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Strahan, Andrew, -1831

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Thomas Somerville, the only son of minister William Somerville, was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, in 1741. In 1756, he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh, where he studied divinity. He received his license to preach in November 1764, was ordained in 1767, and took positions as a tutor, before getting his first parish at Minto, a position he held until the king presented him to the parish of Jedburgh, Scotland, in 1772. Somerville led the church at Jedburgh until his death. Du...

Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, bart.

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Bennet Langton.

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Samuel Clarke, 1675-1729

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Baretti, Giuseppe Marco Antonio

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Turton, John

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John Hawkesworth.

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Boethius, -524

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Boethius was a member of the Roman aristocracy who became expert in logic, mathematics, music, theology and philosophy. He was appointed to high office under Theodoric and executed for political reasons in 524/5. Boethius' "Arithmetica" served as an important textbook in the medieval educational program of the Quadrivium. From the description of De Arithmetica [manuscript]. [13--]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225841632 ...

Rev. Joseph Trapp.

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William Upcott.

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Capt. Joseph Hunt

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Lucy Porter

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Mary Dunn Collier Flint

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David, Henry, 1907-

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Educator, labor historian. From the description of Correspondence, with Agnes Inglis, 1933-1937, 1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34367793 ...

Andrew Millar.

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Newton, A Edward

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Epithet: American book collector British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000699.0x0000cd ...

Baretti, Giuseppe, 1719-1789

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Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1719-1789) was a native of Turin, Italy. After beginning his literary career in Italy, he removed to London in 1751. There he served as an Italian language tutor, and soon became a member of Samuel Johnson's literary circle. After publishing A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages (1760), he returned to Italy for five years, where he courted controversy with his literary periodical La Frusta Letteraria. He settled in London permanently in 1765. In 1769, ...

John Nichols.

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Gibbons, Thomas, 1954-

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Epithet: Dean of Carlisle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x0002c1 Epithet: iron merchant, of Wolverhampton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x0002c2 ...

Poore, Mr.

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James Boswell.

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Sallust

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Alexandre Jean Baptiste Piochard, comte d'Arblay

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Henry Thrale

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Bathurst, Richard, -1762

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H.M.S. Unicorn.

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Boswell, James Griffin

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Epithet: Representative of Dysart at the Convention of Scottish Boroughs British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000302.0x000355 Epithet: of Add MS 38226 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000302.0x000353 ...

Michael Johnson, 1656-1731

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Hester Maria Cotton Salusbury, 1707-1773

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Carter, Elizabeth

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Epithet: of Add MS 36193 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000986.0x00031a Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002f5 Epithet: of Stowe MS 748 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000986.0x00031b ...

James Grainger

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John Chalkhill, fl. 1600

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