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Dedications

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Draft book dedication, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/48
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Draft book dedication [by Alexander Carmichael to his wife Mary] 'The best of wives And the best of mothers The severest of critics but the warmest of friends Thee my beloved Mary'.

Dates: c1893

Letter from Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen (in German), with modern transcription and summarised translation, 12 February 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/3
Scope and Contents As the letter is not addressed to Ewart by name, it is unclear whether the letter was addressed to another recipient. Tschusi confirms the receipt of the addressee's letter, prospectus of and index of Bohemian ornithology, which includes a bibliography. He complains that the index does not contain an important work by the addressee's uncle and that one of the his own works has been omitted from the bibliography. He therefore declines the dedication of the addressee's book to him. He...
Dates: 12 February 1898