Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
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- 1807-05-15
Moving house - asks PE to look after his books. The cry of No Popery has succeeded even beyond the hope of those who raised it.
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Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Moving house - asks PE to look after his books. The cry of No Popery has succeeded even beyond the hope of those who raised it.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
His wife is a fortnight overdue - has been drawing a vignette of Michael Scott's grave from the Lay of the Last Minstrel, and CW asks PE's opinion of a Latin epitaph he has composed for his wife to inscribe on the tombstone. Is learning Welsh.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Wants to ask PE's opinion of a pedagogue in Edinburgh (on behalf of a cousin).
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
On an election at Oxford for the Oxford MPs, involving Richards.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Copy in CW's hand of Richards' letter to Abbot.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Arranging for books to be bound and delivered. Discussion of a Greek epigram to be inscribed on one (recording the gift of the book to a nephew, from three brothers) - Hallam has objected to one word, but CW finds the objection hypercritical and 'too Etonian.'
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Perhaps 1812 - reference to Southey's article on Bell and Lancaster being amplified into a duodecimo volume (article in Quarterly Review of October 1811 republished as a pamphlet in 1812). Some\ obscure political manoeuvrings, involving the 3rd Baron Holland and the 3rd Baron Foley
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Trying unsuccessfully to help PE with some contacts Iinc. Sir John Pollen? And Abel Moysey?).
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
May soon have two rather than just one uncle in the Cabinet, so may be able to assist PE with a preferment. His grandmother's legacies. PE should have ordered some copies of his Sophocles to be printed on large paper, to be given as presentation copies. Hears that Carey is doing well at Westminster. Southey's Amadis is in the press
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Asks for two copies of PEW's Sophocles (one for him, one for his uncle Tom). C Burney has been to dinner - talk of mss., one supposedly the 1st act of Sophocles' Clytemnestra, but probably a composition of the time of Gregory Nazianzen, and the other a ninth century Plato containing nothing new, but which might confirm some readings. PE needs good corrector - he does not possess attention enough to proofread.