The life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe K.G. G.C.B. D.C.L. LL.D. &c. from his memoirs and private and official papers

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  Stratford de Redcliffe, Stratford Canning, Viscount, 1786-1880. 1 letter to John Lewis Mallet, 1775-1861, A.L.S. (1 p.), (1816, Aug. 9)

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