- 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
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
Sam Collingwood of the Clarendon Press asks for corrections to made to some pp. so he can take them to Lord Grenville at Dropmore.
Mr Carr begs leave to present his son
W Brown begs PE to accept a brace of birds
J Allen from Pisa to PE in Naples re forwarding a box of PE's books to England. Death of a friend and burial at Leghorn (Livorno). Warm climates do not cure - his sister's two children getting weaker, despite opium. Sismondi has reportedly married a Miss White, but he never mentions her in letters, which is suspicious (he in fact married Jessie Allen 2 years later - see above from Jessie de Sismondi)
John Conybeare to PE on his reasons for declining the post of Public Orator.
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.
William Sotheby - PE has been ill and many friends inc. Henry Hallam have been worried - invitation to stay.