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- [1870s?] (Creation)
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1 vol.: 2 flyleaves; pp. 1-302 (printed, pp. 80 and onwards unused); alphabetical cut-in index (unused); 1 free endpaper.
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Gift of George Macaulay Trevelyan, Nov. 1953.
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Leather-bound volume with 'Private | Sir C. Trevelyan | No. 46' stamped in gold on front cover. Note in hand of George Macaulay Trevelyan on recto of second flyleaf: 'By Hannah, Lady Trevelyan. This has been used by her son G. O Trevelyan for his Life of Macaulay' to very good purpose. His mother wrote it for his use, but died before he wrote the Life.
This copy is in the hand of G. O. Trevelyan; he also makes notes in the margin.
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All of the letters by Thomas Babington Macaulay are published in Macaulay, Thomas, & Pinney, Thomas, (1974-1977), The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vols. 4-6.
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- Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet (Subject)
- Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward (1807-1886), 1st Baronet, civil servant and colonial administrator (Subject)