Walpole seeking to use (and attribute) some PE emendations of Chandler's reading of an inscription in a forthcoming work on Greece and Asia (Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, 1817?). The letter is black-edged.
Walpole seeks advice on a Roman inscription intended for his work (see preceding letter). In a PS he adds an inscription from the Troad mentioning Homer.
J W Mylne - request and thanks for a testimonial for a position as assistant and successor to the Prof of Logic in Glasgow. He did not get the post. (NB PE has been dangerously ill.)
John Crawford in Naples to PE in Oxford - re inconclusive negotiations to purchase some mss. from the Colonna library - the Colonna heirs don't expect much, but the Vatican may be interested - PE has authorised payment of
Percival Hart Dyke re his son Percy - caught with coachmen in his rooms (offence of driving) - rusticated from Oxford, and now the question of moving to Cambridge