Autograph letter signed from Capel Lofft, Troston, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1799 February 10.

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Autograph letter signed from Capel Lofft, Troston, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1799 February 10.

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Includes a lengthy section on the subject of the Irish Union. Lofft also mentions finding an "admirable investigation of Shakespeare's conception & delineation of the character of Hamlet ... from Goethe in the appendix to the Monthly review." Also, passing references to the New review, a portrait of [William] Hayley by [George] Romney, and Memoirs of living authors.

2 leaves ; 23 x 19 cm.

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