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Percival Hart Dyke re his son Percy - caught with coachmen in his rooms (offence of driving) - rusticated from Oxford, and now the question of moving to Cambridge

Robert Bourne acknowledge receipt of note and liberal fee. Will visit again, but hopes that PE will soon be cured

William Tayler (Isle of Wight) re finishing the Tuscan Room and the Pheasantery

J Parker (uncle? Helensburgh near Glasgow) - progress of a court case to do with a trust - some gossip, remarks on Bonaparte, and family news

Richard Haber (?) thanks PE for his support and patronage

M Burton of Ch Ch cancelling a dinner for PE and Hallam because of his father's gout

Alexander Wood of York to Mrs John Elmsley - holds Power of Attorney, and is selling land in Pickering

Robert Walpole (Aegean traveller and epigraphist) - PE wants to copy the Elgin Marbles at Burlington House, and getting tickets will be easy. PE has suggested collecting a body of inscriptions prior to Alexander - Walpole askes him to explain some of those in Chandler.

Invitation from John Bowring to be a steward at a public dinner to express 'public opinion and feeling in relation to Greek independence'

John Conybeare hoping for letter and visit. Maybe the Heads of Houses will give him the Bampton Lecture for 24 (they did!)