- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-02
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- 1805-31-08
Calls PE a Priapus - PE has sent him some beastly, filthy verses in Greek, by unknown author.
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- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-03
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- 1806-11-10
Asks PE to inspect a house he is thinking of buying in Bedford Place, London.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-04
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- 1807-01-20
Marriage to Julia Elton. PE an executor of HH's will.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-05
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- 1807-01-30
Thanks PE for inserting notice of marriage in papers. Is the house ready?
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-06
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- 1806-11-22
Is the (new) house dry? Settlements being prepared re forthcoming marriage.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-07
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- 1807-08-04
PE thinking of priesthood - advises against Canterbury because of the danger of invasion and the plague of troops - Oxford or Cambridge the only provincial situations which would thoroughly suit PE.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-08
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- November 1811 - February 1812
PE a candidate for the preachership of Lincoln's Inn (and several other letters re canvassing and counting votes). NB Lincoln's Inn not mentioned by Hallam in any of these letters - see note at 68 Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-09
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- 1815-01-12
PE likely to separate from a Miss L, because of her renewal of Hymeneal chains. Presumably a reference to Harriet Lewin, subsequently married to George Grote - a scandal briefly referred to in PE's entry in the DNB, and further described in the Elizabethan, May 1897, p.298.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-10
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- 1815-09-27
Advises circumspection on the matter to which PE alludes. The allusiveness and circumlocutions of the language may point to the Harriet Lewin affair.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-11-11
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- 1815-10-09
PE and a Mr Collins have been rivals in love for a young lady - a clandestine amour and a scandal in the neighbourhood. Greek is the chief point of resemblance between PE and Mr Collins - could Mr Collins therefore be a pseudonym for George Grote? HH wonders how the secret got out - did the 'young Lombard' let it slip to exonerate himself, or did the lady's family, with whom PE has quarrelled, do so out of a spirit of vengeance?
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