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Town Boy Football Ledger 1904-1913
Henry Mordaunt Clavering to John Benn
Has not forwarded the name of Thomas Trebeck (see 7 and 29) to the committee established to support the play (see 29), since Bull wrote that he did not know if he was still alive. Pulteney reports that cricket balls are now bowled so violently that players must be padded. On translations of Terence - thinks that new translations should appear every 50 years to reflect changing idiom. Westminster said to be improving under new Head Master (see 29) - hopes that he will keep the best of the old customs, such as fagging (what hardship is it to carry 2 or 3 hats on one's shoulders to Tothill Fields, or to blow on a fire?). On the import of cattle and sheep by railroad from the interior of Germany and its negligible effect on London meat prices, and on the state of the potato harvest. To assist his French a Frenchwoman comes in three times a week to read Molieres to him out loud.
Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, 1766-1850
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!)
Jessie de Sismondi - past acquaintance - problem of Italian refugees in Switzerland - asks for introduction to PE's friend Henry Wynn, ambassador in Switzerland, to obtain passports - also asks if a learned Italian could earn a living in Oxford as a tutor
William Morgan Clifford asking PE for help in gaining admission for his nephew to Ch Ch in 2 years
John Crawford in Rome to PE in Oxford - Talks of a printed catalogue in PE's hands of what remains to be sole from the (Sciarra) Colonna library in Rome. Both have been ill and recovered. The Alban Hills are free of brigands and quite safe.
Coutts - PE has transferred Power of Attorney re some India Stock to another party - Coutts want a letter assuring them that they have behaved satisfactorily