Letters, 1850 December 16-1859 July 20, Kier near Dunblane, and London, to George Ticknor, [Boston].

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Letters, 1850 December 16-1859 July 20, Kier near Dunblane, and London, to George Ticknor, [Boston].

Comments on Spanish literature; he will be unable to see Ticknor; mentions the death of Prescott; mentions his work on the Encyclopaedia Britannica; war in Europe.

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