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Upbraids PE for not writing. Asks after his progress with Sophocles. Politics has been occupying everyone - Pitt is hostile to the current administration. CW has spoken in Parliament on the feeble conduct which has emboldened Bonaparte and caused the present war - a sentence of the speech was in Latin (quotation from Cicero?), which he presents for PE's approval. His brother Henry has been appointed His Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Dresden, at a salary of

The personal papers of Colin Andrew Murray from when he was a pupil at the Westminster School, 1939-1944. Includes, school reports, school work and correspondence and notices from the school to parents.

Handwritten termly reports recording progress made in different subjects, 1939-1944.

The personal papers of Colin Murray from after he left Westminster School. Including documents regarding the Westminster School Society, the Elizabethan Club, the War Memorial Appeal, Quatercentenary celebrations, commemoration services, correspondence, press cuttings and Christmas cards.

Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Soph. OT

Alexander Wood of York to Mrs John Elmsley - holds Power of Attorney, and is selling land in Pickering

Robert Walpole (Aegean traveller and epigraphist) - PE wants to copy the Elgin Marbles at Burlington House, and getting tickets will be easy. PE has suggested collecting a body of inscriptions prior to Alexander - Walpole askes him to explain some of those in Chandler.

Invitation from John Bowring to be a steward at a public dinner to express 'public opinion and feeling in relation to Greek independence'

John Conybeare hoping for letter and visit. Maybe the Heads of Houses will give him the Bampton Lecture for 24 (they did!)

Jessie de Sismondi - past acquaintance - problem of Italian refugees in Switzerland - asks for introduction to PE's friend Henry Wynn, ambassador in Switzerland, to obtain passports - also asks if a learned Italian could earn a living in Oxford as a tutor