Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sister Margaret, 1833 Jan. 11.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to his sister Margaret, 1833 Jan. 11.

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Telling her about the "superb official garb" he just ordered from "a topping tailor in Bond Street who makes uniforms for His Majesty's Guards"; complaining that the "villains at Leeds" left him "the hustings and polling-booths to pay for -- near a hundred and twenty pounds"; reporting that [William] Walker is making an engraving of him; noting that he has "at last sent off a long and ... very dull article to Edinburgh" about "Lord Mahon's [Philip Henry Stanhope's] History of the War of Spanish Succession."

1 item (8 p.) ; 18 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl, 1805-1875

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Philip Henry Stanhope was the 5th Earl Stanhope. He was also known as Lord Mahon. He was a historian and was the author of History of the war of the succession in Spain (London: J. Murray, 1832) and History of England (London: J. Murray, 1836-1854). From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122591081 ...

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...

Walker, William, 1791-1867

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Cropper, Margaret Macaulay, 1812-1834,

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