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Identification: MSS 099, F539
Creator: Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868.
Title: Samuel Lover letters
Inclusive Dates: 1837–1864 and undated
Extent: 6 items (10 pp.)
Abstract: Letters from Samuel Lover to various individuals.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F539, Samuel Lover letters, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelved in SPEC MSS 099
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Purchase, 1996.
Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, March 2007.
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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).
This collection consists of six autograph letters signed by Samuel Lover to the following: T. Crofton Croker, R. Shelton MacKenzie, J. G. Carpenter, Charles Cradock, William Jerdan, and Leopold.
Samuel Lover letters, 1837–1864 and undated [Box 34 F539]
Five autograph letters signed, one autograph note signed, 10 pp.