Textual criticism Sophocles The Trachiniae
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- Early 19th century
Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Soph. Trach.
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Textual criticism Sophocles The Trachiniae
Bundle of index cards - textual criticism - Soph. Trach.
Peter Elmsley to his sister-in-law [Mary Hallowell?]
Naples. Ship sailing this evening for Malta. Repeats (in case previous letters have not Arrived) that he has not heard from sister-in-law since November - and to pay the
E. Berens - PE has sent him a caricature of an Oxford Almanack.
Sam MacKnight to John Elmsley congratulating him on his appointment as Chief Justice of Upper Canada. Sends good wishes to PE.
Charles James Blomfield to Peter Elmsley
Remarks on his editions of Aesch, and on PE's review of Gaisford's republication of Markland. Porson's drunkenness, and the charge of plagiarism against PE (Horsfall pp459f.). Butler has decided not to reply to the criticisms in the Ed Rev in his latest volume. Monk has been staying. B has yet to meet PE.
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.
Charles James Blomfield to Peter Elmsley
Asks for return of the Hermanns vis Mawman (v. 1815-09-06). Proceeding with Agamemnon. Seeks advice on some textual points.
James Henry Monk to Peter Elmsley
Busy - lectures, pupils, wide acquaintance, medal and scholarship exams, publishing two books (2nd ed Hippolytus, 1st number of Museum Criticum). Asks for two new sheets of the Heracleidae. Articles in Mus Crit longer than expected and without much variety, so may not at first be popular. Asks for a short notice of any new publication PE sees, and for his views on the Mus Crit when it appears.
Grosvenor Charles Bedford to Peter Elmsley
Has just left Dropmore - no letter awaited him from PE, so hopes that no news is good news. Kidd gave him a good account of PE. Enquires after leg and and the red spot thereon, and wishes that both are diminishing.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
On canvassing on PE's behalf in an election (v.440f).