Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869 (British physician, natural theologian, and lexicographer)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to Joseph C. Neal, 11 March 1839
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/8
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Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to Joseph C. Neal, Marshall House [i.e. Marshall House Hotel Philadelphia], 11 March 1839. In the letter, Combe tells Neal he is "obliged & gratified" by his notice of "Roget's re-publication". In 1838, Peter Mark Roget (who was hostile to phrenology) published Treatises on physiology and phrenology : from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was...
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11 March 1839
"E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists", 1805-1899
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Identifier: Coll-1997/1
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This volume is entitled "E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists" and contains 175 items: 118 autograph letters and documents 57 portraits, comprising 40 albumen print photographs, 16 engravings, and 1 lithograph.
Ainger, Alfred. ALS to Katharine Lyell. 9 February 1885. 2 pp. Ainger is best known for his memoirs of English authors. Declining a dinner invitation, saying that being in Hampstead Heath he...
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1805-1899