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GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-1-16 · Item · April 1824-August 1824
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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.)

GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-5-41 · Item · 1824-04-12
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London. PE has made funds available - has paid for tenant's repairs, some debts, and has started to crop the ground. Has walked around Marylebone - 50 years ago it was as rural as now Hampstead and Highgate are, but now very built up. Rambling discussion of reasons for this. Criticism of House of Lords. Wry consideration of high society. Sympathy expressed for Caroline of Brunswick, antipathy towards George IV. Wry consideration of high society.

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GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-4-1 · Item · 1824-04-19
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C Goddard - has sent some notes to Collingwood (see row 49 - from the Press?). Cannot work for the moment as his son has an obstruction of the mesenteric glands. Ref to Lord G. (Grenville? - see 49).

GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-6-64 · Item · 1824-04-23
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Urgently persuades PE to take care of himself, and before he returns to Oxford to consult Dr Paris of Dover Street (John Ayrton Paris) - no reason why he and Kidd (Regius Professor should not work together, despite separation of 56 miles. PE to tell Kidd that his salary as Regius Professor is now payable at the Exchequer.