Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
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- 1803-12-06
Asks PE to stay on his way to Scotland (and also with Southey in Keswick).
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Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Asks PE to stay on his way to Scotland (and also with Southey in Keswick).
Town Boy Cricket Ledger 1918-1922
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Asks for two copies of PEW's Sophocles (one for him, one for his uncle Tom). C Burney has been to dinner - talk of mss., one supposedly the 1st act of Sophocles' Clytemnestra, but probably a composition of the time of Gregory Nazianzen, and the other a ninth century Plato containing nothing new, but which might confirm some readings. PE needs good corrector - he does not possess attention enough to proofread.
Town Boy Water Ledger 1925-1931
PE thinking of priesthood - advises against Canterbury because of the danger of invasion and the plague of troops - Oxford or Cambridge the only provincial situations which would thoroughly suit PE.
A supplement to the Town Boy Cricket Ledger 1804-1832
Town Boy Water Ledger 1931-1936
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Charles Burney has described PE as among the first scholars of the present day. Has visited William Vincent and William Carey (a new broom sweeping remarkably clean). His trunk has been cut from behind his carriage, so he has lost all his wardrobe, and his great coat has been purloined by Mullens (OW John?).