Allan Cunningham letters, poem, and portrait, 1811-1826.

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Allan Cunningham letters, poem, and portrait, 1811-1826.

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The collection consists of eight items, including: five letters to Taylor and Hessey, booksellers and publishers, and John Taylor, 1821-1826, ordering books, correcting proofs, and other business; a letter to Dear Editor, Jno. Scott, circa 1811, saying he can't attend a council meeting, describing his illness; also, manuscript poem King Roberts Light, with prose introduction describing the historical background of the poem; signed engraved portrait.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Taylor, John, -1826

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Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842

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Allan Cunningham was a Scottish author. Trained as a stonemason, he made a name for himself by passing off his own poetry as a collection of traditional Scottish ballads. As a professional man of letters, he had diverse interests, writing plays, novels, short stories, collecting and editing anthologies, and writing biographies and other nonfiction, but was probably most successful as a poet. From the description of Allan Cunningham letters, 1825-1839. (Pennsylvania State University L...

Taylor and Hessey

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