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Add. MS a/213/136
Title
Letter from George Ticknor
Date(s)
- 15 June 1840 (Creation)
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2 pp.
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Letter of introduction for 'Mr Sparks [Jared Sparks], Professor of History in our American Cambridge', who is to visit London and Paris in order to collect material for his forthcoming History of the Revolutionary War. He will probably visit Cambridge where he is friends with Professor William Smyth. GT remembers his trip to Cambridge with great pleasure and wishes to be remembered to Adam Sedgwick.