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MARKHAM
(Sir Clements, 1830-1916, Geographer and President of the Royal Geographical Society)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Freeman, daughter of Edward A. FREEMAN
(Edward Augustus, 1823-1892, Historian), thanking. her for kindly sending a copy of your Father's valuable lectures on 'comparative politics'. I should have thanked you before; but we have been sojourning out of England for three months and have only just returned. During the last ten days we were staying in the country between the Zider and the Sleë, whence came all the Angles; the three districts are still called Angela, Swansea, and Danish-wald..., 2 sides 8vo., on crested paper, Binsted Wych, Alton, Hants, 17th October
Item Date: 189
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FREEMAN was an historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician, a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans. After the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the fourth volume of his History of Sicily. From 1886 Freeman was forced by ill health to spend much of his time abroad. In February 1892 he visited Spain in company with his wife and two younger daughters. He fell ill at Valencia on 7th March, but on the 9th went on to Alicante, where his illness proved to be smallpox. He died at Alicante on 16th March. Frederick York POWELL (1850-1904) was an historian and scholar.
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