ALR.B.2.1.1 - Letter from J W Ballantyne - 10 May 1921

In this letter, Ballantyne records the receipt of two of Reade's volumes, including The Reades of Blackwood Hill. He also poses a question relating to Boswell and Charles Francis Stuart, whose name appears to be inscribed on the fly leaf of a fourth edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson.The fourth ed...

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Summary:In this letter, Ballantyne records the receipt of two of Reade's volumes, including The Reades of Blackwood Hill. He also poses a question relating to Boswell and Charles Francis Stuart, whose name appears to be inscribed on the fly leaf of a fourth edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson.The fourth edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson of which Ballantyne speaks had, by 1928 , surfaced in a Los Angeles booksellers, where Dr Leo Newmark contemplated purchasing it. See ALR.B.1.21.8.
Date:10 May 1921
Reference Number:ALR.B.2.1.1