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Grosvenor Charles Bedford to Peter Elmsley
Difficulties of reading folio volumes printed in diamond types. Can PE recommend an edition of Yerburgius' Cicero in quarto? Is there a modern one from the Clarendon Press?
Goodenough asks leave to nominate PE as steward of the 'Westminster meeting' for 1824, and for recommendations for a text book for the 6th Form.
Thomas Grenville renews enquiry - a tutor for an 8 year old boy - but not a priest, since the father wishes him brought up a catholic
Thomas Grenville - a possible tutor (presumably recommended by PE) has stipulated 2 years only, and has demanded a very high salary - unacceptable on both counts
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
From Baden, to PE in Basle. Ink so faded as to be barely legible, but appears to be gossip about the company at Berne and Baden.
C H Hall of Durham - congratulations, and wanting names of friends in Florence and Rome, in view of a proposed trip
J. Kidd has heard that Alban Hall is vacant and that PE is a candidate for the Camden professorship. A besom is needed to sweep out the unclean birds which infest that place!
F.C.Belfour (recently graduated, and subsequently Professor of Arabic at Corfu University) congratulates PE on his appointment to St Alban Hall, and asks to be considered for a job.
J. Kidd - perhaps, if PE takes over Alban Hall, he will be ineligible for the professorship, since his predecessor was also of Alban Hall. There is no rival candidate for the professorship, so otherwise it is a certainty - therefore delay taking over the Hall till after the election.
Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's - encloses a supplement to his work on the New Testament, and asks PE if he possesses a book by Bauengarten (?).