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A composite volume containing [Thomas Maurice:] Memoirs of the Author of Indian Antiquities ... Part I (2nd. ed.) (London, 1821) and Parts II-III (London, 1820, 1822). Preceding the text are two engraved portraits of Thomas Maurice (one published 1 January 1801) and bound in at the end are two draft letters by J[ohn] B[owyer] N[ichols] to Dr [Samuel] Parr, Hatton, near Warwick, and one reply by Samuel Parr to J. B. Nichols, Westminster, 1824 (observations on the 'Memoir' of Thomas Maurice compiled by J. B. Nichols); a letter from W. B. Maurice (nephew of Thomas Maurice) to J. B. Nicholls [sic], undated [1824] (observations on the 'Memoir'); a corrected copy of a sonnet beginning 'Maurice! the Bard of Patriotism, adieu!', 2 April 1824 ('Used in p. 359'); a reprint, and a cutting of an abridged version, of the 'Memoir of Rev. Thomas Maurice' [by J. B. Nichols] from the Gentleman's Magazine, May 1824; 'Substance of the Will' of Thomas Maurice and probate accounts, 1824; and A Catalogue of the entire Library of the late Reverend Thomas Maurice, Assistant Librarian at the British Museum ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr Sotheby ..... On Saturday, January 8, 1825 and Six following Days (Sunday excepted).
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Preferred citation: 766C.
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- Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824 (Subject)
- Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824 -- Poetry (Subject)
- Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824 -- Library (Subject)
- Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824 -- Will (Subject)
- Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824 (Subject)
- Nichols, John Bowyer, 1779-1863. (Subject)
- Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825 (Subject)