Manuscripts

Commonplace book

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1830.
Call number: mssHM 12242
Creator: Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of September 1931.
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