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Principles for yong princes: collected out of sundry authors, by George More Esquire
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
227306
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Manuscripts
A collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera related to Hannah More. The correspondence includes letters to and from Charles James Hoare and his wife, Jane Isabella Hoare; letters to More's publishers Cadell & Davies; Reverend Renn Dickson Hampden; Selina Macaulay; Thomas Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury; Ann Kennicott; Sophia Matilda, Princess of Gloucester; Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay; and James Stephen. The letters discuss the political and religious issues of the day, including the death of Charlotte, Princess of Great Britain and the trial of her mother, Caroline, Queen consort of King George IV; the Catholic Question; abolitionists; spiritual life and religion. The collection also contains two poems by Thomas Macaulay and a black and white print of More's home Barley Wood, with an autograph note by More.
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Manuscripts
A collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera related to Hannah More. The correspondence includes letters to and from Charles James Hoare and his wife, Jane Isabella Hoare; letters to More's publishers Cadell & Davies; Reverend Renn Dickson Hampden; Selina Macaulay; Thomas Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury; Ann Kennicott; Sophia Matilda, Princess of Gloucester; Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay; and James Stephen. The letters discuss the political and religious issues of the day, including the death of Charlotte, Princess of Great Britain and the trial of her mother, Caroline, Queen consort of King George IV; the Catholic Question; abolitionists; spiritual life and religion. The collection also contains two poems by Thomas Macaulay and a black and white print of More's home Barley Wood, with an autograph note by More.
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Manuscripts
A collection of 850 items from 1750 to 1814, which contains correspondence from the War Office; the material was accumulated by Sir George Yonge during his term of office as Secretary at War from 1782 to 1794, together with some material of his predecessors and successors in office. The collection includes routine correspondence, consisting of letters regarding promotions, commissions, retirements, accounts, desertions, and troop movements. The papers contain many references to past service of officers in America, the West Indies, India, Gibraltar and elsewhere on the continent. Officials represented, in addition to Yonge, are: William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington; Charles Jenkinson; William Windham; Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 7th Bart.; and Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston.
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