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<p> &#x00A9;<date encodingangalog="260$c">2005</date> The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. All rights reserved.</p>
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<unittitle label="Title" encodinganalog ="245$a">Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair collection of Papers, <unitdate type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1899-1906</unitdate></unittitle>
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<persname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="700">Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932</persname>
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<corpname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="710">T. Fisher Unwin (Firm)</corpname>
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<p>Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316</p>
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<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>
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<p>Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was a Scottish patron of social and feminist political causes in Ireland and Canada.</p>
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<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence by the author. The letters date from 1899 to 1906 and are addressed to Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory and the literary agency T. Fisher Unwin.</p>
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<unittitle> ALS to Lady [Isabella Augusta Persse] Gregory <unitdate><lb/>
1906 Aug. 31 </unitdate></unittitle>
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<unittitle> ALS to Lady [Isabella Augusta Persse] Gregory <unitdate><lb/>
1906 Oct. 12 </unitdate></unittitle>
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<unittitle> 134 ALS, etc. to T. Fisher Unwin <unitdate><lb/>
1899 - 1900 </unitdate></unittitle>
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<p> With reader's report by W. H. Chesson. 2 p. </p>
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