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The Life and Trials of Mr Duncan Campbell
An early advertisement for a sensational memoir about Duncan Campbell a deaf and mute man famed for foretelling futures and naming people places and times. It details his reading and writing method his childhood feats and his arrival in London offering predictions both tragic and comic with numerous publishers and saleroom notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fust
Duncan Campbell
Plato
Campbell
London
Curl
Temple Coffee-house
Fleet-street
W. Mears
T. Jauncy
Temple Bar
W. Lewis
Covent-Garden
J. Graves
St James's-treet
A.betterworth
Pater-nofter-row
W. Meadows
Cornhil