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Invitation from Taylor Combe to join the Royal Society of Literature, one of whose objects is the publication of inedited (sic) mss. Congratulations on appointment to St Alban

R Finch in Rome to PE in Florence. Apologises for not having accomplished PE's 2 commissions. Niebuhr has been ill, and he hopes to persuade Amati on the morrow to collate the 4 mss of Sophocles. Hopes Jenkyns will not succeed Parsons as Master of Balliol (he did). Has heard of a good ms of Suidas in the Roman College. Miller has fallen and hurt his shoulder. The Holy Roman Emperor (??? - tear in letter) has placed restrictions on ruin-hunters. Talk of the dating of some Roman antiquities. Ashbridge and Miller disagree on the merits of Vasi's Itinerary (of Naples).

R Finch from Naples (about to go to Florence, and to go to Greece the following year) to PE in Milan (just left Florence, and about to return to England). Apologises for writing on Bath paper. PE has not acknowledged a 'collation' from Miss Thomson. Amati has acquired portraits of Louis XVI. Has met Baron Niebuhr, who criticises Amati and Francesco del Furio as collators, but does not think this criticism should be printed. Has heard nothing about Sir Humphry Davy's invention, and has not delivered PE's message to Bunsen - Mrs B is slatternly, and they are all very queer (v. Horsfall pp473ff).

J Black encloses a parcel of books from Prof Hermann in Leipzig, and offers to take parcels to Germany on his monthly expeditions.

Heraldic note on coat of arms of Lord Grenville (see 37, 49, 135).

List of songs, ref to a book by Philip Shuttleworth (Warden of New College), sketch of Hussey (?) crest.

J Allen from Rome (Via Bambuino). About to take a villa in Frascati - news of friends - PE has only recently left.

Copy of letter from PE to William Gifford (ed. CEQR) requesting that this letter be forwarded to the author of a review accusing him of plagiarism. He thinks it is Dobree, claims that the emendations occurred to him before he heard them from Porson and wishes to know precisely which emendations are in question. This letter precedes those in Rows 142f - v Horsfall pp456f.

Wm Sotheby congratulates PE on appointment to St Alban Hall.

G W Hall (Canon of Gloucester, Master of Pembroke?) has disposed of the 5 poll books already sent, and requests the remaining dozen or so if they are printed. Regards to (Frodsham) Hodson, Principal of BNC.