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Collection Reference Number GLC00496.192
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1818 
Title Sir George Steuart Mackenzie to Thomas Pringle about election
Date 17 July 1818
Author Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir (1780-1848)  
Recipient Pringle, Thomas  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Discusses the election and the reviews of Mackenzie's "Travels in the Island of Iceland."
Subjects Literature and Language Arts  Travel  Election  Politics  Science and Technology  Global History and Civics  
People Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir (1780-1848)  Pringle, Thomas (1789-1834)  
Theme Arts & Literature; Slavery & Abolition; Science, Technology, Invention; Government & Politics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Mackenzie was a noted mineralogist who first came to prominence in 1800 by demonstrating that diamond was composed of the element carbon. Pringle was a Scottish poet and abolitionist.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859