Thomas Babington Macaulay letters, 1857-1859.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay letters, 1857-1859.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay (1st Baron Macaulay) was a British poet, historian, and Whig politician. He held political office in Britian as Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841 and Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. This collection consists of four letters written from Macaulay to Henry S. Randall.

.42 linear foot (2 volumes)

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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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...

Randall, Henry Stephens, 1811-1876

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Henry Stephens Randall (1811-1876), educator and historian, author of Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858). Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881), newspaper editor, man of letters, and Virginia historian. From the description of Correspondence between Henry Stephens Randall and Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1856-1861. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228736119 Agriculturalist, educator, politician, and writer. Author of numerous books and articles...