Letters. 1776-1777.

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Letters. 1776-1777.

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A.L.S. (1776 Sept. 12) to John Walsh offering to be of assistance in Holland, and A.L.S. (1777 April 22, London) to M. Duchaine(?) concerning some grain, both signed "Magellan" ; in French.

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Dibner, Bern.

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Magalhães, João Jacinto de (1722-1790).

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João Jacinto de Magalhães was born in the Portuguese town of Aveiro on November 4, 1722. He is better known to the English-speaking world by the name he published most of his works under, Jean-Hyacinthe Magalhães . He claimed to be a descendant of the Portuguese explorer, Fernão Magalhãaes (Ferdinande Magalhães, c. 1490 - 1521). At the age of eleven Magalhães went to an Augustinian monastery in Coimbra in which he spent the next twenty years living and studying, first as a novice an...