BIB_ID
105632
Accession number
MA 2706
Creator
Hall, Basil, 1788-1844.
Display Date
1830 Feb. 8-1842 July 26 and undated.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Capital Fund, 1969.
Description
47 items (ca. 159 p.), unbound ; size varies + 8 envelopes
Summary
This collection of autograph letters signed includes 37 to his publisher, Edward Moxon, discussing the publication of his Fragments of Voyages and Travels and Loo-Choo. It also includes single letters to W. Andrews, P. Buquet, Dr. Robert Ferguson, Miss Maudslay, Countess Elizabeth Georgina Spencer, W. S. Stratford, and J. Voranda (?) and three letters to unidentified recipients. Topics mentioned in these letters include engineering problems with towing on canals, importation of sheep from Singapore, and miscellaneous matters.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (33.4 cm)
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