Aulus Gellius [Sir William Gell] to PE at the Albergo della Speranzella (possibly in Naples?) re the publication of some papyri, to be dedicated to the King (if the King should disappear, the name can be changed from George to Frederick, George III's 2nd son. No date, but an oblique reference to the dropping of the Pains and Penalties Bill puts it between Nov 1820 and Aug 1821 (death of Queen Caroline). See Horsfall p476f & notes ad loc - perhaps the letter should be dated to late 1820, just after PE's departure from Italy.
Goodenough (Westminster HM 1819-1828) begs PE not to do any work on the 'Choruses,' unless he has something already worked out, but to concentrate on the proposed sermon. Robert Cockerell has 'reserved his stomach for the venison at Mr Bigge's (John Bigge OW, a near contemporary of Cockerell?). Mentions a Theban based play at the Theatre, Tottenham Street.
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.
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.
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
Geneva. Arrived 31st August, having left Brussels on 31st July. Suggests that his nieces trace his route on a map (number of nights in each town is given - Frankfurt is the only very thriving place he has seen on the continent). Description of continental roads, drivers and inns. Germans not prosperous but like fresh air (unlike the French and Italians), and the roads are good and the food is cheap. Geneva is a hole, but Switzerland is beautiful. Heidelberg a gem - wishes Blucher had put barrels of gunpowder under the Louvre in return for Louis XIV destroying the Elector's palace. Likes the Swiss - very like the Germans. French proverb - one must be either a hammer or an anvil - the French are hammers, the Germans are anvils. Country around Liege most reminded him of England. A monument at the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine - inscribed by the French on the way to Russia in 1812, and by the Russians on the way to Paris in 1814.
Naples, 35, Largo del Castello. More on the dishonest clerk. Left Rome on Shrove Tuesday, 18th February. Last hours spent with Bonars, who gave pancakes to PE and his travelling companion Pigou. Agnes (Aggy) Bonar (who would have refused PE some years ago, had he made her an offer) has settled her
