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Scope and Contents Letters: London and St. John's Wood, to Miss Boughton; St. John's Wood, to Mrs. Robb; London, to Ellis Wells, Esq.; to "Dear Sir"5ALS. In first Boughton letter, Dicksee regrets he must miss seeing her on the 6th as he is laid up after having stopped a run-away horse. In the second, he must decline another invitation due to influenza. In Robb letter, regrets that he has no more exhibition tickets to spare. Note to "Dear Sir" written to accompany payment of subscription to the...

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Letter: Earlston, Scotland, to John Dickson, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Begs to know why his brother has not written to him: "If by word or dead [sic] I have injured you only let me no [sic]." Also describes the depressed state of trade in his area: "This town chiefly depended on the weaving class of people and that is now most wretched. Wrights and masons is well imployed [sic] in Edinburgh as there is little or no trade in the country." Contemplates immigrating to America.

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Letter: London, to E. Moran, Esq., London

ALS. Thanks Moran for his "kind information. We have however got so far ahead of our venerable friend that any mention of him in the Athenaeum is giving him a publicity he has no other chance for."

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Letter: to "Dear Sir", n.d.

ALS. Declines an invitation due to previous travel engagements; the second letter discusses the Rialto and Venice.

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Promissory note protest: Philadelphia, Pa. to James Latimer

DS. Promissory noted dated May 1, 1811, handwritten at top of document, states that James Latimer will repay a loan to Dilworth within six months. As he failed to do so, the protest was filed by the second endorser, John Byrnes, with Benjamin Nones, notary public of Philadelphia.

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Letter: to J.A. Hessey, Esq., 1785-1870 ; [18--]-09-08

ALS. Asks if Hessey can lend him copies of Wordsworth's Excursion and Keats's Poems. "I am exceedingly careful of books . . . perhaps as much so as any person you have ever known: so that you need not fear my abusing them as so many literary men do."

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Letter: to [Taylor & Hessey]

ALS. De Quincey discusses in detail some editorial changes to a work in progress, probably his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published by Hessey and Taylor in their London magazine in 1821.

Scope and Contents Letter: to George Gee, Esq., RydalALS. De Quincey writes of what he has heard about the state of John Scott's health: "Mr. D[awes] assured me that the ball was extracted; and that, by the latest account he has seen, S. was in a fair way for recovering. I fear, however, from the style of your note, this must be a mistake." Goes on to write of his sorrow at the thought of Scott's death and of his changed opinion of Scott: "I learned enough ... at Edinburgh to acquit him . . . of...

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Note.

ANS. Sends his regrets for an appointment.

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Letter: New York, N.Y., to Mr. George Morrison Coates

ALS. Discusses business matters. "3 p. is all we have of the exact color of the sample of fancy cassimere--we enclose samples of some that are near to them." Included in letter are two pieces of cloth.