Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to Thomas Cadell, 1784 Jan. 17.

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Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to Thomas Cadell, 1784 Jan. 17.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270584008

Concerning the proposed publication of his essay on Petrarch, and the Royal Society of Edinburg.

1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord, 1747-1813

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