Edmund Burke letters, 1762-1797.

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Edmund Burke letters, 1762-1797.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612837222

This collection includes seventeen autograph letters from Burke to a variety of correspondents (including General John Burgoyne; Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville; and Elizabeth Robinson Montagu), and a single signed receipt.

1 box (.1 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1718-1800

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Elizabeth Montagu, née Robinson, English author and literary hostess. From the guide to the Elizabeth Montagu manuscript material : 1 item, ca. mid-18th century, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, an author and literary hostess, was a central figure in London's Bluestocking circle, and a friend of Samuel Johnson. Her best-known work was 1769's anonymously published An Essay on the Writings and ...

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797

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Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792

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Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811

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Henry Dundas, the first Viscount Melville (1742-1811), statesman, was the father of Robert Saunders Dundas, the second Viscount Melville (1771-1851), also a statesman. Henry Dundas was educated at Edinburgh High School and University, before becoming solicitor-general for Scotland in 1766. He was M.P. for Midlothian 1774-1790, except for a few months in 1782, when he sat for Newtown, Isle of Wight. He was lord advocate 1775-1783, lord rector of Glasgow University 1781-1783, privy councillor, and...