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- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-1
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- 1820-12-13
Lavinia Spencer (Countess Spencer) invites PE to stay at Althorp (perhaps after meeting him in Naples)
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-2
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- 1820-12-17
Lavinia Spencer regrets that PE is engaged for Xmas, and hopes to see him for a few days in January. She apologises that PE has been asked to write some classical verse to be inscribed on altar plate.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-3
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- 1822-07-26
Boissonade (Jean Francois - Prof of Greek in Paris) sends a book/pamphlet (?)
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-4
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- 1819-07-23
Extract of letter from Humphrey Davy to William Hamilton. He has the support of the government, and will write to PE in the north of Italy in the hope of persuading him to go to Naples. He plans to be in Naples before the end of Oct, and hopes to give an account of progress by the start of Dec. Sadly Michael Faraday is unable to join the expedition. Horsfall pp474f.
Davy, Humphry, 1778-1829
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-8
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- 1819-01-27
Revd Charles Strong (formerly of Wadham) proposes a text and translation of Hecuba, and asks PE in advance for help with any problems.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-9
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- 1824-08-31
Philip Bliss (bibliophile, librarian at Bodley and Registrar)employs a housekeeper (?) for PE in Oxford. News of friends, and asks for a job for his brother-in-law.
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-13
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- 1822-07-01
Thanks PE for getting Phillimore to recommend him as sub-librarian at Bodley, to replace Henry Cotton (OW).
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-21
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- 1824-12-26
J. Kidd thanks PE for his 'liberality of that morning.'
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-2-25
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- 1818-05-29
Jo Young (a relative stranger) recommends his son Charles (exhibitioner of Balliol) to PE's acquaintance, re Greek studies