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Smith, James. Note to Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bart
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[Sheridan, Thomas ?]. English Blunders
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[Scott, Sir Walter, 1st Bart.]
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The collection consists of letters which shed light on the activities and social life of the Countess of Suffolk and her circle. Included are an anonymous but purportedly first-hand account of the alleged murder of Samuel Molyneux by the physician Nathaniel St. Andre, and Sir Walter Scott's autograph review of the 1824 edition of the publication of the Countess's letters. There is little in the collection concerning George II or Court politics
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Scott, Sir Walter, 1st Bart. [Note in preface to his 2d edition of the Works of J. Swift, acknowledging the use of certain papers of Swift then in the possession of James Smith]
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In the handwriting of James Smith; endorsed by Smith at Bideford, 1824 September 2. With a late 19th-century copy (4 pp.) of the same note with further quotations from the second edition in the hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson.
HM 14333 (a + b).