James Mackintosh, 1765-1832 (Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian)

Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter signed from James Mackintosh to Francis Horner, dated 12 December 1814: “On receiving your letter yesterday my first thought was to request you to call on Lady Mackintosh that she might read to you what I had written when the spontaneous communications of the duke of Wellington were fresh in my recollection. But on farther reflexion both on the unspeakable importance of the subject & on the just authority of your opinion I resolved to request an interview with him...

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[Promissory note by Sir James Mackintosh]. Holograph. 9 September 1826. Mackintosh, James, 1765-1832, Signatory; White, Adam, 1817-1879, Annotator.

Note: The note - for £25 in favour of 'Mr Macdonald' - carries the added inscription: 'Given to A. White Esq by John McDonald a promissory note of Sir James McIntosh [sic]'. The note is mounted on a sheet carrying handwritten biographical details of Mackintosh by Adam White.

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The Rt. Honble. Sir James Mackintosh. Stipple engraving. 1833. Lawrence, Thomas, 1769-1830, Artist; Cochran, John, Engraver; Fisher, Son & Co., Publisher.

Publisher statement: Fisher, Son & Co. London.

Published in: William Jerdan, National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century, vol. IV (1833).

Note: With facsimile signature.