Letter, 1819, May 25, Dumfries, Scotland, to William Hamilton Maxwell, Dumfries, Scotland.

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Letter, 1819, May 25, Dumfries, Scotland, to William Hamilton Maxwell, Dumfries, Scotland.

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Accepts his offer. Pasted on reverse is picture of Bernard Barton.

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Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850

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Maxwell was a Irish soldier in the Napoleonic wars who retired to minister to a remote Irish parish, where he began to write Irish military and sporting novels. After some success he moved to London in the 1830s, where he produced novels, military histories and biographies, and Irish and Scottish travel-books. While he did have some success, he died in poverty on December 29, 1850 in Musselburgh near Edinburgh. From the guide to the Papers of William Hamilton Maxwell, ca 1844?, Decem...

Burns, Jean (Armour), 1767-1834.

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