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The Hazards Of Emigration
A Pioneer Family : The Birkbecks of Illinois 1818-1827. By Gladys Scott Thomson. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) EMIGRATI01•1 was a far more heroic matter in the early nineteenth century than......
“ Men, .women And Herveys " Augustus H Ervey, Third Earl Of
Bristol, was a member of that strange family which included John, Lord Hervey, the chronicler of George 11's Court; Frederick, the grandiloquent and eccentric Bishop- Earl; and......
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