2 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Thomas Gaisford to Peter Elmsley
Canvassing PE's support for the father-in-law of a friend, Mr Carstairs, in his candidacy for a directorship of the East India Company. Bekker's Theognis - not sure of genuineness of 159 additional verses from the Modena ms., but will print them anyway as an appendix to vol. 1 of Poetae Minores. Vol. 2 to be ready by Christmas - printers busy with index - asks PE for his observations on Archilochus.
Thomas Gaisford to Peter Elmsley
Answers PE's request for information about a vacant living.
Thomas Gaisford to Peter Elmsley
Repeats request for PE's remarks.
Thomas Gaisford to Peter Elmsley
2nd volume of Poetae Minores with printer - asks for PE's promised remarks on 1st volume.
Thomas Gaisford to Peter Elmsley
2nd volume of Poetae Minores in the Press. Asks for PE's comments on the 1st volume, to be included before the index. Lord Spencer has given him a duplicate copy of Theocritus (?) printed by Calliergus. Respect for Museum Criticum, but no time or wish to write for it. Valpy at the Classical Journal ignored TG's wishes concerning a piece of his, 'though the Journal itself is improving. Neither publication concerned to using best editions.
Thomas Gaisford to Peter Elmsley
Inadequacy of own work. Sorry to hear of PE's change of plan re Sophocles. Praise for first sheet of OT (sent by Collingwood). PE should assert claim to emendations etc. which have been forestalled in Erdfurt's edition - should also publish Aj. Or OC, neither of which Erdfurt has yet done. G. has just been ordained.
Letters from Thomas Gaisford to Dr Emsley
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.
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.
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.