Peter Pindar letter to John Walker 1805-1812

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Peter Pindar letter to John Walker 1805-1812

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Holograph letter of 10 October [180]5 to John Walker, bookseller, of Paternoster Row, London. Two engraved portraits.

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Ohio University

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Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819

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Peter Pindar is the pseudonym of John Wolcot, an English satirist. From the guide to the Peter Pindar letter to John Walker, 1805-1812, (Ohio University) John Wolcot studied medicine in London, took his M.D. at Aberdeen, and became physician-general of Jamaica. After returning to England, he met the painter John Opie and in 1780 the two moved from Truro to London, where Wolcot devoted himself to the writing of verse satires, mostly published under the name "Peter Pindar." ...