Town Boy Water Ledger 1843-1859
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Town Boy Water Ledger 1843-1859
Town Boy Cricket Ledger 1833-1840
Town Boy Cricket Ledger 1841-1858
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
Town Boy Water Ledger 1834-1843
Charles Parker (of Liverpool, son of J. Parker?) to Mrs Elmsley - had met in 1823. Hopes to keep up acquaintance with surviving members of family. One is Capt Macaulay, and Parker enquires on his behalf about packets sailing to New York.
A supplement to the Town Boy Cricket Ledger 1804-1832
Undated invitation to PE to preach in Oxford, plus 4 dockets of financial transactions between members of the Elmsley family
Alexander Wood of York to Mrs John Elmsley - holds Power of Attorney, and is selling land in Pickering
H Cotton (Ch Ch theologian) asks PE to let himself into the Delegates' room and extract a ms. of Enoch which he is to take to the Archbishop of Cashel - 3 weeks later he apologises for having removed some of PE's boxes from Tom Tower prior to his Irish trip