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Contains 72 Results:

George Washington Cable Letter to Mrs. Hillis, 1899 January 24

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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Cable wrote this letter to Hillis of Des Moines, Iowa acknowledging receipt of a magazine story and offers apologies for not having time to read and criticize it. "...I hope you will make allowance for a poor fellow who has a rabbit's race to run and only a small speed to run it with." He writes that he felt quite honored to be asked to review it for her.

Dates:1899 January 24

W. H. Davies letter to Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 1905 June 27

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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Holograph letter to author Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch asking for financial assistance with the book The Soul's Destroyer and other Poems "...as I am at present without means of support."

Dates:1905 June 27

Alfred Peck Edgerton letter to W.A. Savage, 1873

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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Alfred Peck Edgerton's handwritten letter to W.A. Savage of Paulding County is regarding Savage's contract with Edgerton for land in Paulding(?) County. The letter might be dated in November 1873.

Dates:1873

Maria Edgeworth letter to Archdeacon Singleton, 1829 October 14

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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Letter from Maria Edgeworth written from Edgeworthstown to Archdeacon Singleton. She encloses a packet for him to forward.

Dates:1829 October 14

George Eliot letter to Courtney Kenny, 1872 November 5

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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A letter from George Eliot to Mr. Courtney Kenny of Downing College in Cambridge. Eliot "thanks him for his kindness in wishing to help her by pointing out errata in Middlemarch." Envelope included.

Dates:1872 November 5

Joseph B. Foraker letter to Horace Porter, 1900 October 2

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
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In this typed letter, Senator Joseph B. Foraker is introducing his friend John H. Patterson of Dayton, Ohio, to General Horace Porter in Paris, France. Foraker requests that Porter guide Patterson around Paris while he is there.

Dates:1900 October 2