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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letters mostly concerning the papers of John Cam Hobhouse and his bequest to the British Museum., ?1816-1875, undated.

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Identifier: MS.42292
Scope and Contents The letters in both sections of this manuscript have been organised alphabetically by correspondent surname.Letters concerning the papers of John Cam Hobhouse:Letter of George Grote to Hon. Charlotte Carleton, 1870: folios 1-4;Letter of John Murray [III] to Dudley Wilmot Carleton, undated: folios 5-6;Correspondence and drafts of letters between John Winter Jones and Hon. Charlotte Carleton, 1875: folios 7-13;Note in the hand of Hon....
Dates: ?1816-1875, undated.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of George Grote and Harriet Grote., 1845-1877.

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Identifier: MS.40490
Scope and Contents Letters, 1845-1870, of George Grote and Harriet Grote to John Murray III, with related letters and papers dating to 1877. The letters are arranged in chronological order. The letters of George Grote concern his 12 volume “A history of Greece”; the letters of Harriet Grote concern partly her husband’s work but also her own writings, including her “Memoir of the life of Ary Scheffer”. The letters are arranged in alphabetical order by name, then by date under each correspondent....
Dates: 1845-1877.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Harriet Grote., 1862-1878.

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Identifier: MS.40491
Scope and Contents Letters, 1862-1878, of Harriet Grote to John Murray III, with related letters and papers. They concern both her husband’s work, “A history of Greece” and “Plato”, and her own writing, most notably her biography of her husband, “The personal life of George Grote”. The letters are arranged in chronological order.1862-1864: folios 1-38;1865-1869: folios 39-66; (1)1870-1872: folios 67-137; (2)1873-1874: folios 138-179;1875-1878: folios...
Dates: 1862-1878.