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Mackintosh, James, Sir (1765-1832) to Thomas Pringle

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.193 Author/Creator: Mackintosh, James, Sir (1765-1832) Place Written: Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 May 1831 Pagination: 2 p. ; 17.5 x 11 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses the failure of obtaining a pension for Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Coleridge and Pringle were poets and abolitionists. Mackintosh was a British writer and public servant.

Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834
Mackintosh, James, Sir, 1765-1832
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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