Letter from John Buchan to Joseph Harrington O'Brien, 1890-1941, 1921, Nov. 8.

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Letter from John Buchan to Joseph Harrington O'Brien, 1890-1941, 1921, Nov. 8.

A typewritten letter, with autograph corrections, about the novel, Midwinter, and using Samuel Johnson as a character in the novel.

2 pages, 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7088490

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Buchan, John, 1875-1940

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John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. From the description of Letter from John Buchan to Joseph Harrington O'Brien, 1890-1941, 1921, Nov. 8. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228769757 English author and statesman, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps; 1st baron Tweedsmuir. From the description of Typed letters signed (4) : Elsfield Manor, Oxford, an...

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1890-1941

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