Partie No. 1 - Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to Margaret Cropper

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Add. MS a/710/1/No. 1

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Letter from Thomas Babington Macaulay to Margaret Cropper

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  • 7 Dec. 1834 (Production)

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7 folded sheets, foliated 1-14.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet
(1800-1859)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Note on facing page by Margaret Cropper [née Denman, second wife of Edward Cropper]: 'Letter written by T. B. Macaulay to his sister Margaret concerning the engagement of his sister Hannah - to Charles (afterwards Sir Charles) Trevelyan. This letter was written before the news of Margaret's death had reached her brother and sister in India'.

Note at top of letter: 'Copied for C. Trevylan [sic: in fact the copy seems to have been made for G. O. Trevelyan] Jan[uar]y 1874'.

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      Tipped in between pp. 12-13 of Add. MS a/710/1.

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      The copy of this letter referred to in the note at the top, made in Jan. 1874 and sent to G. O. Trevelyan for use in his preparation of The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876), is also held at Trinity, with a note from Edward and Margaret Cropper (née Denman) giving him full permission to publish whatever of it he sees fit. See O.18.1, f. A16r.

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      Published in Macaulay, Thomas, & Pinney, Thomas. (1976). The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vol. 3, pp. 99-107; it also appears in part in G. O. Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876), and G. M. Trevelyan's George Otto Trevelyan (1932).

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