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Identification: MSS 099, F373
Creator: Maxwell, John.
Title: John Maxwell letter to Samuel Lover
Inclusive Dates: 1859 September 27
Extent: 1 item (3 pp.)
Abstract: Letter from publisher John Maxwell to Samuel Lover.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F373, John Maxwell letter to Samuel Lover, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelved in SPEC MSS 099
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Purchase, 1994.
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Irish painter, playwright, and author Samuel Lover (1797–1868) was a prolific artist during the nineteenth century. He painted portraits and wrote plays, ballads and novels.
Sources:
"Samuel Lover 1797–1868." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 16, 2007).
John Maxwell (1824–1895) was the husband and publisher of English writer Mary Braddon.
Sources:
"Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1837–1915." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 20, 2007).
This is an autograph letter signed by publisher John Maxwell to Samuel Lover, encouraging Lover's contributions to a magazine edited by Maxwell entitled The Welcome Guest. The letter is written on the stationery of the magazine.
John Maxwell letter to Samuel Lover , 1859 September 27 [Box 21 F373]
Autograph letter signed, 3 pp.
