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Finding NoDDGR/42/4/33
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TitleLetter to John Grimston at Kildwick from John Hildyard at York
Date18 Mar 1754
DescriptionIncludes references to having had a severe cold and feverish disorder; having had a perfect vol[ume] of Grandison returned; there having been no vol[ume]s of the abrig[men]t of Philos[ophical] Transactions since those which bring the set to 1744; the character of Hogarth's Analysis; having lately received The Ruins of Palmyra; Lord Bolingbroke's Works; the Supplement to Chamber's Dictionary by Scott Sub Praceptor to the Prince and the last volume of Grandison. Includes a list of details and prices of the following volumes: Birch's Memoirs of Q[ueen] Elizabeth; Select Essays on Mines Fisheries Corn[mercy] and Agriculture and Other Useful Subjects; Curious Observations Extracted from ye Memoires of the Royal Academy at Paris by Templeman; Borrer's Lives of the Popes volume Third; Voltaires State of Europe; Voltaires peices Entertaining about ten translated in one Volume; Hay's translation in verse of Brown de immortalitate Animi; Virginia-Constantine-Tragedies-Friends wrote by Guthrie; The Sisters by Dod author of Beauties of Shakespear; Cibber's Lives of the Poets; The Cry published by Dodsley; Journey thro' Every Stage of Life; Memoirs of Count DA'rvaux relating to the Secret transactions preceding ye Revolution 2 Vols; Life of Mr Anderson; Agreeable Ugliness; Dodsley's Poem on Publick Vertue;
Dennis's Fables for use of Prince of Wales; Releif or Day thoughts; several pamphlets on the Irish Affairs; the B[isho}p of Londons new select Discourses; History of the Plagues at London Marseiles; Admonitions from the Dead in letters to the Living; Adventures of Jerry Buck and Temple Beau or Town Coquet
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