Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sisters Hannah and Margaret, 1832 June 25.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sisters Hannah and Margaret, 1832 June 25.

Discussing various political matters, including the "unjustifiable" appointment of Robert Gordon to a commissionership; mentioning British policy towards India and the "China monopoly"; indicating that he expects Gordon to quarrel with him; cautioning them that the contents of his letter should be kept private "and that Cropper's is one of the last houses in England in which any thing relating to the disputes at the India Board ought to be known."

1 item (6 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm

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SNAC Resource ID: 7964800

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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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Cropper, Margaret Macaulay, 1812-1834,

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