Peter Pindar letter to John Walker [manuscript] 1805-1812.

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Peter Pindar letter to John Walker [manuscript] 1805-1812.

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Holograph letter dated 10 October [180]5 to John Walker, bookseller, of Paternoster Row, London discussing the "approval of pieces of work" and the best possible way to deliver them to the publisher. Also includes two engraved portraits labeled Peter Pindar, Esq., one of which is labeled "Published by John Walker: Paternoster Row, March 1, 1812."

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Ohio University, Alden Library

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Ohio University, Alden Library

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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." ...