Textual criticism Euripides Ion
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- Early 19th century
Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Eur. Ion
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Textual criticism Euripides Ion
Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Eur. Ion
R.J. Gilbert (BNC) out when PE called - invites him to dine with Mr Parker
Hely (in Rome) is ill - wants the recipe for a medicine - gives a forwarding address to PE.
Elisa Berens gives news of her family.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Half a letter only. No statesman was allowed to rise to individual and personal prominence under Elizabeth, William 3rd or Oliver Cromwell. Re military merit, England seems to have possessed more good officers than any other country except Spain, but he does not see any particular proof of superiority of talent - it is just that the battles they fought were more important in their consequences and therefore more celebrated. Raleigh, however, was in almost every respect above his age and would have shone in any profession or situation.
Textual criticism Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus
Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Soph. OT
Ditto, asking if PE has received a note from Lord Grenville re the cancellation of 2 pages (cf. row 49).
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Appears to have secured Howard's vote in PE's favour, but this must remain secret for the time being. Canvassing others, inc. Phillimore and William Ord (?). Wife about to give birth.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
A friend has claimed that Cambridge has produced more great men than Oxford (with the exception of statesmen). Asks for PE's thoughts on lists of men from both universities - should he continue the contest, or sound a retreat and declare that the great men were a result of circumstances independent of the particular systems of education?
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
On canvassing on PE's behalf in an election (v.440f). A (modern) pencilled note on the back claims this election concerned the preachership of Gray's Inn - this is incorrect (the Gray's Inn preachership changed in 1811 and 1815), but in 1812 William Van Mildert was elected to the preachership of Lincoln's Inn.