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... sent him the portraits of Dame Marian Living- stone and of Jameson . - April 16 , 1800 . MR . M. LAING TO MR . PINKERTON . 151 With extracts from Anderson's notes of papers in the Paper- office . - April 18 , 1800 . MR . PINKERTON TO MR ...
... sent him the portraits of Dame Marian Living- stone and of Jameson . - April 16 , 1800 . MR . M. LAING TO MR . PINKERTON . 151 With extracts from Anderson's notes of papers in the Paper- office . - April 18 , 1800 . MR . PINKERTON TO MR ...
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... sent . His lordship seemed much satisfied with such parts of it as he had hitherto had time to read , and will take the first oppor- tunity of reading the whole . Mr. Stuart com- municated to him the paragraph in Mr. Pinker- ton's ...
... sent . His lordship seemed much satisfied with such parts of it as he had hitherto had time to read , and will take the first oppor- tunity of reading the whole . Mr. Stuart com- municated to him the paragraph in Mr. Pinker- ton's ...
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... sent to Italy . As soon as I have dismissed my Memoir , I shall prepare for the press a manuscript journal in my possession of a very sensible traveller , who made a tour of Scotland , Ireland , and Wales , in 1634 . Your learned and ...
... sent to Italy . As soon as I have dismissed my Memoir , I shall prepare for the press a manuscript journal in my possession of a very sensible traveller , who made a tour of Scotland , Ireland , and Wales , in 1634 . Your learned and ...
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... Scotland ; a profile in the European Magazine ; a similar portrait , in bis- cuit , by Wedgwood ; and a fourth , engraved for this work , a medallion by Tassie . This my brother has sent to General Vallancey ; and 6 CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... Scotland ; a profile in the European Magazine ; a similar portrait , in bis- cuit , by Wedgwood ; and a fourth , engraved for this work , a medallion by Tassie . This my brother has sent to General Vallancey ; and 6 CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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John Pinkerton. This my brother has sent to General Vallancey ; and Walker tells me the general will communi- cate it for the Oriental Collections . Wilford con- firms much of Vallancey's Irish Phænician Sanscrit conjectures . I am ...
John Pinkerton. This my brother has sent to General Vallancey ; and Walker tells me the general will communi- cate it for the Oriental Collections . Wilford con- firms much of Vallancey's Irish Phænician Sanscrit conjectures . I am ...
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