ANQ, January 1st, 2006
The National Library of Scotland holds a manuscript letter from David Mallet to Thomas Percy, the eminent antiquary, collector, translator, bishop of Dromore, and editor of Reliques of Ancient Poetry (1765). This letter (National Library of Scotland, ms. 3648, ff. 56-57) (1) is written in response to an inquiry that Percy must have previously sent to Mallet. Frederick Dinsdale, the author of a nineteenth-century critical memoir of Mallet, does not appear to have been aware of any correspondence between Mallet and Percy. Mallet, in his reply to Percy, refers to a letter from the Duke of Bucking...
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