BIB_ID
195777
Accession number
MA 14300.68
Creator
Brown, J. W., sender.
Display Date
Glasgow, Scotland, 1858 February 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.2 x 12.9 cm
Notes
Written on printed stationery, "45 & 47. Howard Street. / Glasgow".
Signed "JW Brown / Corresponding Editor".
The Baroness Blaze de Bury is listed among the contributors in volume I of the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (London : William Mackenzie, 1857-1863).
Signed "JW Brown / Corresponding Editor".
The Baroness Blaze de Bury is listed among the contributors in volume I of the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography (London : William Mackenzie, 1857-1863).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Enclosing an excerpt from the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, informing her that her name was given to him by one of their contributors, Sir David Brewster, and inviting her to serve as a contributor to the publication, specifying that "It wd. be especially convenient if you could undertake to write the lives of living French celebrities."
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