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Add. MS a/710/2/No. 4
Title
Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to Margaret Cropper
Date(s)
- 17 Oct. 1834 (Creation)
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2 sheets and 6 double sheets, each separate sheet given a number. Separate cover, 1 sheet.
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A note at the top of the letter records that it has been 'Copied [for the Trevelyans, like other letters in these books?]'. Sketch map of Calcutta [Kolkata] on fourth page. Separate cover addressed to 'Mrs E. Cropper, Messrs Cropper. Benson & Co, Liverpool', with two of Macaulay's seals still present.
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Tipped in between ff. 4-5 from back of Add. MS a/710/2. Cover pasted in on f. 5v from back.
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Publication note
Published in Macaulay, Thomas, & Pinney, Thomas. (1976). The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vol. 3, pp. 90-97.