Autograph letter signed : on board the HMS Namur off Sheerness, to Chief Justice James Christie Esten, 1813 Oct. 4.

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Autograph letter signed : on board the HMS Namur off Sheerness, to Chief Justice James Christie Esten, 1813 Oct. 4.

Concerning a recent hurricane in Bermuda, news of the Austen children, her husband Capt. Charles Austen's ambition to advance to the command of a frigate before the resolution of the "American war", and news of friends and acquaintances in England and Bermuda.

1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 cm.

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Namur (Ship)

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Austen, Fanny, 1790-1814

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Née Frances-Fitzwilliam Palmer, wife of Charles-John Austen. From the description of Autograph letter signed : on board the HMS Namur off Sheerness, to Chief Justice James Christie Esten, 1812 Jan. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 311058767 From the description of Autograph letter signed : on board the HMS Namur off Sheerness, to Chief Justice James Christie Esten, 1813 Oct. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 311143803 From the description of Autograph letter sign...

Esten, James Christie

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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986

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Gordon N. Ray, a graduate of Indiana University, was closely associated with the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray. His four volume edition of the Letters and private papers appeared in 1945-1946 and his two volume biography in 1954-1955. From 1963 to 1985 Ray was president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Ray was also an outstanding collector of English and French illustrated books. His collections formed the bases of two exhibitions held at the Pierpont Morgan Library that w...