BIB_ID
131992
Accession number
MA 9626
Creator
Maturin, Charles Robert, 1780-1824.
Display Date
[18--] August 11.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.3 x 11.3 cm
Notes
No year of writing is given, but it is most likely that Maturin wrote this letter after graduating from Trinity College in 1800 and before his death in 1824.
Written from York Street, a street in Dublin where Maturin is known to have lived at various times.
Addressed to "Monk Mason Esqr / Harcourt Street."
Written from York Street, a street in Dublin where Maturin is known to have lived at various times.
Addressed to "Monk Mason Esqr / Harcourt Street."
Summary
Requesting the loan of works about "the national costume of Turkey; wines, dress[,] music and naval equipments"; asking if "in the Range of your extensive Recollection you might direct me to something"; commenting on Richard Knolles's history of the Ottoman Empire as a source: "Knolles is wretchedly defective though [Samuel] Johnson admired him so much."
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