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Marguerite, Countess of Blessington letter to William Longman
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Irish writer Marguerite Blessington (1789-1849) authored literary works in a variety of genres including travel, novels and poetry. She also held salons in London.
"Margaret Power Farmer Gardiner - September 1, 1789-June 4, 1849." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 166: British Travel Writers, 1837-1875: Victorian Period. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Barbara Brothers, and Julia Gergits, Youngstown State University. The Gale Group, 1996. pp. 50-54. http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed March 20, 2007).
This is a letter from the Countess of Blessington to publisher William Longman regarding the proof of one of her books.
Box 35, F0555: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Purchase, 1997
Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, March 2007. Further encoded by George Apodaca, September 2015.
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- 2007 March 20
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Autograph letter signed, 2 pp.