The ladies complete letter-writer

Posted on November 3, 2022 by km55

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Title: The ladies complete letter-writer : teaching the art of inditing letters … Being a collection of letters, written by ladies … the whole forming a polite and improving manual …
Edition: The second edition, with corrections and additions.
Publication: London : Printed for the editor, and sold by T. Lownds in Fleet-Street, [1765]

19 765L

Acquired July 2021

Retail lace house : 392, Strand, opposite Cecil Street

Posted on August 22, 2022 by km55

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A letter addressed to ‘Madam’ describing the copy and the quality of its work with attestations from the Royal family.

Author: Geo. Fred. Urling, & Co.
Title: Retail lace house : 392, Strand, opposite Cecil Street, from 143, Cheapside.
Publication: [London?] : [Geo. Fred. Urling, & Co.], [1819?]

File 66 819 Ur77

Acquired September 2021

Posted on September 14, 2021 by km55

Author: Philalethes, Member of the Church of England, author.
Title: Christianity defended : in a letter to the Right Honourable Simon Ld. Lovat, (in the Tower for high treason) on the importance of repentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, in contradistinction to the execrable heresy of Arianism. Occasion’d by Mr. F——-‘s Account of the behaviour of the late Earl of Kilmarnock / by a member of the Church of England.
Publication: London : Sold by M. Cooper; J. Walter, P. and A. Brown, in Bristol : W. Frederick, J. Leake, Bath; and J. Drew, Exon, MDCCXLVI [1746]

53 L896 746

Acquired March 2020

Posted on November 19, 2019 by km55

Author: Lackington, James, 1746-1815.
Title: The confessions of J. Lackington : late bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses, in a series of letters to a friend; to which are added, two letters on the bad consequences of having daughters educated at boarding-schools.
Published: London : Printed by Richard Edwards, Crane Court, Fleet Street ; For the author, and sold by all the booksellers in the United Kingdom, 1804.

53 L11 804

Acquired March 2019

Posted on March 15, 2018 by km55

‘A letter from the Cocoa-tree’, London, 1762, referred to the formation of an opposition party by the Duke of Cumberland and others.

63 762 D42

Acquired June 2017