Autograph letter signed from James Orchard, West Brompton, London, to Colonel [James Grant] Wilson [manuscript], 1867 January 18.

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Autograph letter signed from James Orchard, West Brompton, London, to Colonel [James Grant] Wilson [manuscript], 1867 January 18.

Admires Washington Irving's paper on Shakespeare, as being "the most elegant paper ever written on our national Poet."

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859

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Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889

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