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Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N. : novels

Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840: 'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but I have never seen him. Without being one of his indiscriminate admirers, I like parts of his books (some of which I have read to my father), and have been told that they have done good in the profession -- suggestions thrown out in them having been taken up and acted upon by the Lords of the Admiralty'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford      Print: Book

Captain Frederick Marryat : Diary in America

'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they should not be true'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

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