Papers. 1791 MAR 18.

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Papers. 1791 MAR 18.

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Photocopy and transcription of a letter from William Playfair concerning land purchases in Ohio, re. Marietta and the Scioto Valley.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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Playfair, W. H. (William Henry), 1790-1857

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William Henry Playfair (1789-1857) was born in Russell Square, London, in July 1789, the son of James Playfair, a London architect. He moved to Edinburgh in 1794, and trained as an architect under William Starke of Glasgow (d. 1813). He designed part of the Edinburgh new town in 1815, and the Royal and Regent Terraces in 1820, and worked on the buildings of the city university in 1817-1824. His other work in Edinburgh included the design for the Observatory, the Advocates' Library, the Royal Ins...