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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.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
On visiting churches in Paris. (John) Wingfield (Head Master for Xmas term 1802) retiring to be a prebend at Worcester.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Asks if it is true that PE was married in August. Hears that PE's brother has returned from Canada.
Lecointe (bankers?) - PE appears to be claiming a Voltaire from Beaumarchais' estate, and is temporarily refused
Textual criticism Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus
Notes on text of Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus - index slips; ll.1136-fin.
Textual criticism Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Soph. OC
Textual criticism Sophocles The Trachiniae
Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Soph. Trach.
Miscellaneous textual criticism
6 index slips - 1 blank, 1 Aeschylus Agamemnon ll930 & 931 (but marked as 903 & 904), 1 Aeschylus Agamemnon ll1199 & 1200 (but marked as 1170 & 1171), 1 Euripides Bacchae l7, 1 Sophocles Electra l111
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Tuesday, so perhaps 1810. Long time no hear.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
On canvassing on PE's behalf in an election (v.440f). Anxiously expects PE's account of particulars in order to know where to direct further efforts.