- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-1-13
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- [c.1820]
G Copleston says he will suggest to Lord Grenville (politician, Chancellor of University)that he be at Dropmore (Park) Thursday to Saturday
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G Copleston says he will suggest to Lord Grenville (politician, Chancellor of University)that he be at Dropmore (Park) Thursday to Saturday
Jessie de Sismondi - past acquaintance - problem of Italian refugees in Switzerland - asks for introduction to PE's friend Henry Wynn, ambassador in Switzerland, to obtain passports - also asks if a learned Italian could earn a living in Oxford as a tutor
William Morgan Clifford asking PE for help in gaining admission for his nephew to Ch Ch in 2 years
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.)
Edward Cardwell (of BNC and subsequently St Albans Hall) acknowledging receipt of PE's edition of the Bacchae (publ. 1821), and promising to pass on an engraving to a mutual friend.
John Crawford in Rome to PE in Florence - has bought a paper from Amati (Carlo - professor of architecture, commentator on Vitruvius?), and is forwarding via an acquaintance. Hopes PE's labours at Oxford will be more useful than those on the papyri.
John Crawford in Rome to PE in Oxford - Talks of a printed catalogue in PE's hands of what remains to be sole from the (Sciarra) Colonna library in Rome. Both have been ill and recovered. The Alban Hills are free of brigands and quite safe.
Undated invitation to PE to preach in Oxford, plus 4 dockets of financial transactions between members of the Elmsley family
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
H Cotton (Ch Ch theologian) asks PE to let himself into the Delegates' room and extract a ms. of Enoch which he is to take to the Archbishop of Cashel - 3 weeks later he apologises for having removed some of PE's boxes from Tom Tower prior to his Irish trip