Autograph letter signed from T. Hamilton, Queen's College, Belfast, to William Hepworth Dixon [manuscript], 1861 April 24.

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Autograph letter signed from T. Hamilton, Queen's College, Belfast, to William Hepworth Dixon [manuscript], 1861 April 24.

Requests Dixon's autograph because he admires the efforts Dixon has made to vindicate Lord Bacon from the slanders heaped upon him.

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Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879

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Historian. From the description of Letters 1845-1876. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702669699 Dixon was born on June 30, 1821 at Great Ancoats in Manchester, England; wrote a five-act tragedy, The Azamoglan, which was privately printed; editor of Cheltenham Journal, 1846; called to bar in London, 1854, but never practiced law; contributor to the Athenaeum and the Daily News; wrote Life of William Penn (1851); editor of the Athenaeum, 1853-69; traveled widely and ...

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman and essayist best known for theories on scientific experimentation; knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Alban in 1621; Lord Chancellor, 1618; died 1626. From the guide to the A Coppy of a letter Conceived to bee writt to the late Duke of Buckingham..., c1650-1700, (Senate House Library, University of London) ...

Hamilton, T., fl. 1861,

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