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Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898. 1 letter to [Mr.] J. N. Cobb, A.L.S. (1 p.), (1894, Jan. 30), London (Eng.)


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    Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898. 1 letter to [Mr.] ----- [Plunket?], A.L.S. (4 p.), (1872, Dec. 25), London (Eng.)

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    [Crantly?, -----]. 1 note to Alfred -----, A.N.S. (1 p.), (1898, Jan. 17), London (Eng.)

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    Thackeray, Emily Arabella, 1827-. 1 card to [Dear Sir], A.N.S. (1 p.), (1894, Jan. 8), Cambridge (Eng.)

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    Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906. 1 letter to Sir William Fraser, 1816-1898, A.L.S. (1 p.), (1894, Nov. 2), London (Eng.)

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    Huntingdon, Frances Cobbe Hastings, Countess of, d. 1820. 1 letter to [Dear Sir], A.L.S. (3 p.), (1820, Jan. 4), Hampstead Heath (Eng.)

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    Grenfell, Francis Wallace Grenfell, Baron, 1841-1925. 1 letter to [Captain] ----- Lawrance, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), (1917, Jan. 8), Bournemouth (Eng.)

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