J. Z. George questionnaire [manuscript], undated.

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J. Z. George questionnaire [manuscript], undated.

George has filled out a typed questionnaire from S. S. McClure on his reading, noting that his favorite author is Macaulay, and that reading in political and constitutional law and political economy is the most helpful and enjoyable. He declines to advise books for "ambitious young men" stating "that would depend on the tastes of the young man; & the line in which his ambition directs him."

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, born in 1800 in Leicestershire, England, was an historian and author. He was educated at Cambridge. After the success of an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review in 1925, he contributed regularly to that journal. He was called to the bar in 1826 and elected to Parliament in 1830. After various distinguishing public duties, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley in 1859. He also continued to write during these public appointments, primarily on histo...

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McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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