Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to the Marchioness of Abercorn, "Sunday" [1806 June].

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Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to the Marchioness of Abercorn, "Sunday" [1806 June].

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Enclosing "a trifling song" that was sung at a "meeting of five hundred select friends of Lord Melville" [around the time of his impeachment]; assuring her that he does not expect her to accept "these foolish things," but hopes that she will "receive them as graciously as the Duchess in Don Quixote accepts of the half dozen acorns from the wife of Sancho Panza."

1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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