Letters, 1818-1867.

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

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Charles Lamb was born to John and Elizabeth (Field) Lamb in London on February 10, 1775. Two of his siblings survived to adulthood, John (1763-1821) and Mary Ann (1764-1847). Charles Lamb studied at Christ's Hospital but left the school at the age of fifteen due to his chronic stammering. He began working as a secretary and later entered the mercantile trade, joining the East India Company as a clerk in the accounting department in 1792. Mental illness ran in the Lamb family, and C...

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, born in 1800 in Leicestershire, England, was an historian and author. He was educated at Cambridge. After the success of an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review in 1925, he contributed regularly to that journal. He was called to the bar in 1826 and elected to Parliament in 1830. After various distinguishing public duties, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley in 1859. He also continued to write during these public appointments, primarily on histo...

Power, Marguerite A., 1815?-1867

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Irish author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Surbiton Hill, [London], to Mrs. Hall, 1861 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618881 ...

Howell, Charles Augustus, 1840?-1890

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Reading, C.,

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Colburn, Henry, ?-1855

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Henry Colburn was a British bookseller and publisher, known for his assertive marketing practices; he issued works by William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Benjamin Disraeli, among others. Colburn also founded and edited the New Monthly Magazine (1814), the Literary Gazette (1817), and the United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine (1829). From the guide to the Henry Colburn manuscript material : 9 items, 1840-1841, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection...

Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874

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Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall), English minor poet and lawyer. He was a close friend of several more prominent Romantics, including William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and Leigh Hunt. Shelley once said of his poetry, "the man whose critical gall is not stirred up by such ottava rimas ... may be safely conjectured to have no gall at all.". From the guide to the Barry Cornwall manuscript material : 13 items, 1816-1862, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collecti...

Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873

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English artist noted for his depictions of animals and as a sculptor for the lions in Trafalgar Square, London.Thomas Boys was a English engraver and artist. From the description of [Letter] 1817 Apr., St. Johns Wood [to] Thos. Boys / E. Landseer. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 244252355 English painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "St. John's Wood" [London], to Catherine Dickens, 1856 June 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270597964 ...

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...

Coleridge, William Hart, 1789-1849

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Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1797-1864

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English poet and journalist. From the description of Portion of autograph letter signed, ? Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270660919 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hotel de Lile, to Moore, 1828 Aug. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270660932 English poet. From the description of Papers, 1819-1857. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28411542 English poet, editor, and publisher of literary journals. ...

Twiss, Horace, Mrs.,

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Brockedon, William, 1787-1854

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English painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hotel de Mars [Paris], to David Roberts, [n.d]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133415 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to James Mayes, "Wednesday Morn", no year. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133438 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Poland St. [London], to W. Jerdan, [18]19 May 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133629 English painter and ...

Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872

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English music critic, writer, and lyricist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to "Dear friend", "Saturday morning" [1863 Jan. 24]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270127153 British journalist, music critic, and librettist. From the description of Autograph letters signed : 13 Eaton Place West; and elsewhere, to Arthur Sullivan, 1863 Sept. 19 and 1866 Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125542 Henry Fothergill Chorley, English journa...

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

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English poet, literary scholar, historian and biographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified man, 1836 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 603582965 English poet and man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to Moxon, 1837 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662734 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified correspondent, 1837 Mar. 2....

Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849

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Son of S.T. Coleridge. From the description of "Solomon," "The Birth of Seth," and two untitled autograph sonnets (4), [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904471 English author. From the description of The Ambleside rushbearing : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], 1841 July. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875158 English author; son of S.T. Coleridge. From the description of On reading the memoirs of Lady Grizzle Baillie : autograp...

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000026 Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a British novelist, playwright, and short story author. Over his career he wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale and No Name . From the guide to the Wilkie Collins Lette...

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

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American journalist and poet. From the description of Letter : to "My dear fellow," [18--] July 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28900949 Willis was a journalist and writer of plays, poems and short stories. From the description of Letter, to Maunsell B. (Maunsell Bradhurst) Field, 1854 March 31. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122493287 Nathaniel Parker Willis was one of the highest paid periodical writers of his day, a poet, ...

Fraser, James, 1713-1754

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Presbyterian minister of Hillsborough, N.C., who fled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the Revolution. From the description of Papers, 1779-1789. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20770128 Resident of Bay City, and Saginaw, Michigan. From the description of James Fraser letters, 1841-1861. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418424 ...

Procter, Anne Benson, 1799-1888

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Wife of Barry Cornwall. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : to Prof. Knight, 1884-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619108 Mother of Adelaide Anne Procter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Essington's Hotel, Malvern Wells, to Arthur Sullivan, 1866 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270126536 Wife of Bryan Waller Procter, a poet and barrister who wrote using the pseudonym Barry Cornwall. From the d...

Harness, William, 1790-1869

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English divine, Shakespeare scholar, intimate friend of Byron in youth. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Murray, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505430 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Wm. M. Thackeray, 1846 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505439 ...

Eastlake, Elizabeth, Lady, 1809-1893,

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Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834

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Epithet: Captain; ADC to Lieutenant -General Townshend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x0000c1 Epithet: Major British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x0000c2 Thomas Pringle, Scottish poet, was educated at Edinburgh University and became editor of the Edinburgh monthly magazine in 1817. He spent six years as government ...

Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895

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English man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1855 Oct. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851994 British author and editor. From the description of Correspondence, 1856-1893. (Rutgers University). WorldCat record id: 28416066 ...

Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854

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English judge and author, friend and executor of Charles Lamb. From the description of ALS : London, to Andrew Willis, 1847 Aug. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122690123 Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854) was an English judge and author. From the description of Letters to Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835-1844 (bulk 1835-1836). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122396791 English j...

Bowring, John, 1792-1872

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John Bowring was an English statesman and author, renowned as a polyglot. Born in Exeter and raised as a Unitarian, he began working at the age of thirteen, and actively sought to learn languages from travellers. He established a mercantile firm, and travelled extensively, meeting Jeremy Bentham; a controversy over some Greek loans affected his reputation and financial status, but Bentham helped by appointing him political editor of Westminster Review. Bowring published several volumes of verse,...

Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849

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Irish novelist and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edgeworth's Town, Ireland, to August Louis, Baron de Staël-Holstein and Achille-Léon-Victor, Duc de Broglie, 1826 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270994866 Irish-English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Dominique François Jean Arago, the French scientist, [n.d., paper is watermarked 1818]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742984 ...

Mason, W

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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0002d6 De Quincey was an English essayist and critic. From the description of Compositions, 1818-185-. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80714484 From the guide to the Compositions, 1818-185-?., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) English Romantic author Thomas De Quincey was a brilliant cl...

Hall, J. H.,

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Rice, Spring,

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Blanchard, Laman, 1804-1845

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British author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lambeth, to N. P. Willis, 1840 Jul. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270522937 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Union Place," to Miss Crockett, [no year] "Thursday." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530560 (Samuel) Laman Blanchard, English author and journalist. Blanchard's poetry was published widely in journals and he dedicated his 1828 Lyric Offerings to Charles Lamb. He edited,...

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Harrison, W. H., 1792-1874,

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Taylor, John

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Forster, John, 1812-1876

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John Forster was born and raised in Newcastle by Unitarian parents, and educated at Cambridge and London's Inner Temple. He became an important literary critic and editor, and wrote numerous books of his own, notably several biographies. Forster's greatest contribution may have been as literary adviser and advocate for some of the key authors of his day, including Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, and Carlyle. His support, advice, and promotion of authors and writing helped define Victorian taste. Fo...

Nairne, Robert,

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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867

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Henry Crabb Robinson was an English barrister and foreign correspondent, reporting from the continent during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1811 he began keeping a diary, in which he recorded thoughts and observation on friends and acquaintances, including most of the major literary figures in England and continental Europe. His diary remains an invaluable resource for Anglophiles and students of European Romanticism. From the description of Henry Crabb Robinson letter to Tom Taylor, 1863 M...

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849

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Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, Irish-born British writer. Best remembered for her Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, she was active in British literary circles of the first half of the 19th century. From the guide to the Lady Blessington manuscript material : 92 items, 1820-1849, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Irish writer and wife of the Earl of Blessington. From the description of L...

D'Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count, 1801-1852.

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Kinglake, Alexander William, 1809-1891

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Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) trained as a barrister, but was more interested in literature. He became famous after the publication of Eothen in 1844, a narrative of his travels in the Middle East. He was fascinated by military action, and went to Algeria in 1845 to witness the French campaign. In August 1854 he set off from London to follow the British Army to the Crimea, where he witnessed the Battle of the Alma (20 September), before falling sick and leaving for England on 18 October...

Mayer, Joseph, 1803-1861,

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Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833

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Edmund Kean (1787-1833) was an English actor. From the guide to the Edmund Kean Collection, 1814-1933, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Edmund Kean (1787-1833) was an English actor associated with the Drury Lane Theatre. An affair with Charlotte Cox, the wife of prominent alderman Robert Cox, led to an adultery trial against Kean in 1825 and his subsequent travel outside of England. Kean returned to the English stage in 1827 and re...

Jerdan, William, 1782-1869

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Epithet: journalist, of the 'Literary Gazette' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x000297 Journalist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : various places, to Mrs. Darby, 1853 Jan. 12, 1858 Dec. 5, and [no year] Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871150 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to R. Ackermann, "Monday" [no year]. (...

Willis, N. A.,

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Emerson, James G. (James Gordon), 1926-

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Information found in the collection indicates that Emerson was a resident of Willimansett, a locality in Chicopee, Mass. From the description of [Business records]. 1869-1880. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 49534932 ...

Holland, Charles, Mrs.,

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Warburton, Eliot, 1810-1852

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Epithet: solicitor, of Palmerston North, New Zealand British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x0000d8 ...

Warburton, T. Acton (Thomas Acton), -1894

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000104 ...

Hervey, Thomas Kibble, 1799-1859

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x0001c0 ...

Hullah, J.,

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Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889

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English editor and critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 15 Ashley Place [London], to "My dear Sir", [no year] June 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270497889 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [London], to John Ruskin, [1864] Aug. 25 and Oct 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270507258 From the description of Autograph signature to printed card, 1874 Sept 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270508801 From the descri...

Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888

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Mary Howitt, née Botham, English writer and translator. From the description of Mary Howitt manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1828? (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 430350254 Writer of children's stories and other works, who often wrote with her husband, William Howitt. From the description of Letters, 1835-1854. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122295254 English author. From the description of Papers, 1832-...

White, A. S.

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Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884

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Richard Hengist Horne (1803-1884) was an English author. From the description of Correspondence of R. H. Horne, 1847-1877. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122369262 Poet, born near London, migrating to Australia to try his fortune on the gold fields in 1852. Member of the Melbourne Literary Group which included Clarke, Gordon and Kendall. Returned to England in 1869. Among his work, he wrote the epic poem Orion,edited the Ne...

Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858

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Moxon was an English publisher and verse writer and Taylor was a London publisher and printer. From the description of Memorandum of agreement ... between John Taylor ... and Edward Moxon ..., London : manuscript, 1845 Sept. 30. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78553218 Alfred Tennyson was a British poet and playwright. From the guide to the Alfred Tennyson collection of papers, 1823-1907, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collect...

Relfe, Lupton

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Epithet: bookseller, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001033.0x000200 ...

Procter, Adelaide Anne, 1825-1864

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Poet Adelaide Anne Procter was born in London and raised in a literary environment that helped nurture and develop her own budding talent. Most of her poems were published in Charles Dicken's magazines, often under a pseudonym. Her life was marked by her conversion to Roman Catholicism, and by her devotion to women's rights. Although much of her verse seems simplistic and sentimental by today's standards, she was perhaps the most popular living poet of her day. From the description o...

Wood, W. (William), 1774-1857

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