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Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron (1800-1859) to unknown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.190 Author/Creator: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron (1800-1859) Place Written: London, England Type: Autograph note signed Date: 22 August 1832 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 17.7 x 11.5 cm. Order a Copy

Apologizes for being unable to attend an introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge arranged by the note's recipient.

Macaulay was a British Whig lawyer, politician, essayist, poet active in the Anti-Slavery and Parliamentary Reform movements. Coleridge was a British poet and abolitionist.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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