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John Maxwell letter to Samuel Lover

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Call Number:
F0373
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
1 item (3 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0373, John Maxwell letter to Samuel Lover, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1859 september 27 (inclusive)
Creator:
Maxwell, John
Form:
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Letter from publisher John Maxwell to Samuel Lover.

Irish painter, playwright, and author Samuel Lover (1797-1868) was a prolific artist during the nineteenth century. He painted portraits and wrote plays, ballads and novels.

"Samuel Lover 1797-1868." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 16, 2007).

John Maxwell (1824-1895) was the husband and publisher of English writer Mary Braddon.

"Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1837-1915." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 20, 2007).

This is an autograph letter signed by publisher John Maxwell to Samuel Lover, encouraging Lover's contributions to a magazine edited by Maxwell entitled

The Welcome Guest. The letter is written on the stationery of the magazine.

Box 21, F0373: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 1994.

Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, March 2007. Further encoded by George Apodaca, September 2015.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2007 March 20
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Collection Inventory

John Maxwell letter to Samuel Lover, 1859 September 27.
Box 21 Folder F0373
Physical Description

Autograph letter signed, 3 pp.

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