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Brotherton Collection1
Letters Database1
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Topham, Miss2
Scatcherd, Norrison Cavendish, 1780-18531
Miss Topham1

Sender: Scatcherd, Norrison Cavendish, 1780-1853

Recipient: Topham, Miss

Letters: 1

Date(s): 22 Dec 1828

Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Scatcherd

Note: Concerning the trial of Eugene Aram with extracts of Knaresborough Church Register and of York papers at the time of the trial; also a manuscript poem by Thomas Gent. The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also transcripts of the letters, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.

Title: Verses on the Death of Doctor Burgh

Author: Topham, Miss

Attribution: Miss Topham

Date(s): 1809 (marginal note)

Manuscript: Lt 100

Contents: On the death of Dr Burgh, stressing the immortality of the soul, as compared to the transience of the body. Marginal note: 'Died January 1809, buried on the 4th'

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