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Sender: Savage, James, 1767-1845
Recipient: Upcott, William, 1779-1845
Letters: 3
Date(s): 2 Oct 1808 - 1 Aug 1826
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Savage
Note: With prospectus of "History of Taunton and Carhampton". The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also transcripts of the letters, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.
Sender: Keats, Gwendoline
Recipient: Shorter, Clement King
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC. Shorter correspondence
Sender: Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845.
Recipient: Constable, Archibald, 1774-1827.
Letters: 18
Date(s): 1802 - 3 Mar 1825
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Constable 431- 447, 450
Note: Letter dated 25 December 1819 is a copy.
Sender: Constable, Archibald, 1774-1827.
Recipient: Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Feb 1825
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Constable 449
Sender: Limerick, Edmund Henry Pery, 1st Earl of, 1758-1845
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Oct 1815
Location: BC Misc letters (bound): "A Collection of Autograph Letters From Eminent Peers" vol. L - Z
Note: Collected by John Temple.
Sender: Barton, Bernard
Recipient: Crabbe, George
Letters: 1
Date(s): [10 Feb] 1845
Location: BC MS 19c Barton
Note: Charges recipient facetiously with pride and consequent neglect to visit the writer, and exacts a note every day or two and a visit once a week. Confesses to pride in his latest book. Dated 10 February 1845. Initialled. On the back is a facetious third-person note by Edward Fitzgerald (son-in-law to the writer) to George Crabbe, junior, supporting the writer's letter. With two copies of typed transcript of both. Quarto; 3 of 4pp.
Sender: Silas, Edouard
Recipient: Sainton, Prosper
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Jun 1879
Location: BC Misc. Letters 2
Note: In French. Written from London. A note of thanks for Sainton's gift of a (concert?) ticket, ending with the signature, light-heartedly set to music: "Yes, votre devoue Silas". Silas was a Dutch organist, pianist and composer who lived and worked in
England from 1850 until his death. Sainton, the French-born violinist and composer, came to London in 1845 to take up an appointment at the Royal Academy of Music, subsequently taking part in many performances and leading and conducting various orchestras.
Sender: Raousset-Boulbon, Gaston, Comte de
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1 Feb 1847
Location: BC Misc. letters 2
Note: Addressed "Monsieur le comte". In French. Written from Paris. The paper has an embossed stamp consisting of a crown and the letters RB. The writer was the descendant of an ancient family who, after a tempestuous life of adventure and travel, was eventually to face death before a Mexican firing squad. The letter concerns a vast agricultural enterprise which he undertook in Algeria after emigrating there in 1845. He proposes an exchange of land with the recipient. Extravagant habits and the advent of republicanism in France led to the loss of his fortune, and after an unsuccessful attempt to enter French politics he embarked in 1850 for San Francisco. There, he conceived a plan to defend Mexico from American invasion, a project which eventually led to his death. The letter is accompanied by another document, presumably enclosed with it, entitled: 'Projet d'arrangement et d'échange'.