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Twenty-six letters, 1824-5, 1828, of William Blackwood, Publisher (d. 1834); twenty-two are addressed to William Maginn and relate mainly to the affairs of Blackwood's Magazine,including the dispute between Blackwood and Richard Martin as a result of references to the latter in the 'Noctes Ambrosianae'. Throughout there are references to Scott, Lockhart, Gait, and other literary figures. At the end (f. 50) is an apparently unpublished review by William Maginn of William Thomas Brande's 'Pharmacy', Lond., 1825
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