Autograph letter signed from Alban Butler, St. Omer, France, to Mons. Mercier, librarian at the Abbaye Royale de S. Geneviève, Paris, 1765 August 30.

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Autograph letter signed from Alban Butler, St. Omer, France, to Mons. Mercier, librarian at the Abbaye Royale de S. Geneviève, Paris, 1765 August 30.

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Butler would never have consented to come to St. Omer had he realized that he would not be able to have his books because of the different local ordinances prohibiting the free transportation of books from one jurisdiction to another. Also mentions several new English books.

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Mercier de Saint-Léger, Barthélemy, 1734-1799

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Butler, Alban, 1711-1773

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Alban Butler is the author of many works, including the multi-volume The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints or Lives of the Saints; The Life of Sir Tobie Matthews; Travels through France and Italy, and part of Austrian, French, and Dutch Netherlands, during the years 1745 and 1746; and the unfinished Meditations and Discourses on the sublime Truths and important Duties of Christianity.Born in 1710 or 1711 in Northamptonshire, England, Alban Butler attended the English Colle...