Papers, 1790-1820.

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Papers, 1790-1820.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20274198

Includes 55 original items from the "Pindar" works and satires on one "Crimp," literary and financial papers; and photostatic copies of bills, contracts, promissory notes, accounts, and papers relating to bookbinding and publishing activities, financial affairs, and efforts to settle estates of relatives; and literary notes.

352 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins 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." ...