Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Hannah More, 1791 Nov. 19.

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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Hannah More, 1791 Nov. 19.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698250202

Mentioning Cowper and "the pompous edition of Milton that is to come abroad," saying "I certainly prefer [Milton] to a hundred Homers;" discussing Henry Thornton and the Sierra Leone colony.

1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.2 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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