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== '''CORRESPONDENTS AND LETTERS''' == | == '''CORRESPONDENTS AND LETTERS''' == | ||
Revision as of 16:31, 11 November 2007
- Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). ECCO Anglistikserver Oldenburg
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Contents
Contents / Excerpt
Physical description:
- p.[i]: half title
- p.[iii] title page
- p.i-x Dedication to His Royal Highness, Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales etc."
- p.1-31 first preface
- p.[1]-214 "Memoirs of the Twentieth Century" - letters dating Nov. 3, 1997 to Feb. 25, 1997/98
- 215-256 "Preface the Second"
- p.257-504 letters dated from Feb 2. 1997/98 to May 1. 1998
- p.505-527 "Preface the III"
Madden did not foresee the Calendar Act of 1750 which led to Great Britain's introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Dates are given throughout in the "old style" - with new years beginning in March.
CORRESPONDENTS AND LETTERS
Constantinople - Stanhope
February 25, 1997 (pp. 183-214)
November 3, 1997 (pp. 1-28)
April 16, 1998 (pp. 308-338)
May 1, 1998 (pp. 473-504)
Rome - Hertford
February 28, 1997 (pp. 386-421)
November 7, 1997 (pp. 28-53)
January 7, 1998 (pp. 98-132)
Moscow - Clare (Lindsay)
January 27, 1997 (pp. 153-182)
March 8, 1997 (pp. 338-366)
November 29, 1997 (pp. 54-74)
Paris - Herbert
February 8, 1997 (pp. 285-307)
March 4, 1997 (pp. 447-472)
December 16, 1997 (pp. 74-97)
London, Chelsea - N--M
February 2, 1997 (pp. 257-284)
December 19, 1997 (pp. 132-153)
April 5, 1998 (pp. 421-446)
February 24, 1999 (pp. 366-386)
Literature
Samuel Madden
- identified as "Chaplain in Ordinary" at court: Chamberlayne, John. Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain; ... By John Chamberlayne, ... The thirty-first edition of the south part, called England; and the tenth of the north part, called Scotland. .. In two parts. .. London, 1735. p.118. ECCO
- Baker, David Erskine. Biographia dramatica, or, a companion to the playhouse: ... By David Erskine Baker, Esq. A new edition: carefully corrected; .. and continued from 1764 to 1782. London, 1782, p.294. ECCO
- Burdy, Samuel, The life of the late Rev. Philip Skelton, with some curious anecdotes (Dublin, 1792) ECCO pp 28, 32-41, 121
- Jones, Stephen. A new biographical dictionary: ... The second edition, corrected: with considerable additions and improvements. London, 1796. ECCO
- A new and general biographical dictionary: containing an historical, critical, ... London, 1795. 497pp. Vol. 7 of 8 ECCO
- Library Ireland accessed 1 Nov 2007
- Rosemary Richey, ‘Madden, Samuel Molyneux (1686–1765)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 1 Nov 2007
