Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sister Margaret, 1831 Aug. 6.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sister Margaret, 1831 Aug. 6.

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Discussing his affection for his sisters and noting that "wealth, power, fame, have become as nothing to [him] compared with their most sweet and precious affection"; asking for news of "who has been backbiting whom -- and who has reported the backbiting to the person backbitten"; requesting that she not show the letter to anyone but Hannah Macaulay.

1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7964563

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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...

Cropper, Margaret Macaulay, 1812-1834,

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