Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-15-83
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- 1823-07-24
From Baden, to PE in Basle. Ink so faded as to be barely legible, but appears to be gossip about the company at Berne and Baden.
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Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
From Baden, to PE in Basle. Ink so faded as to be barely legible, but appears to be gossip about the company at Berne and Baden.
Includes agendas for Elizabethan Club AGM's, reports to be presented at AGM's, correspondence and invitations and programmes from annual dinners held by the club.
Papers regarding the Latin Services held in Westminster Abbey in Commemoration of the Founders and Benefactors of Westminster School. Includes, notices, tickets and an order of service.
Three press cuttings, including one from the Evening News on 21 June 1945 regarding the damage to the school after being bombed; one from an unknown paper regarding disciplining students; and one from an unknown paper regarding the arrival of the students at their new quarters outside the city during WWII.
J.Bull thanks PE for a book.
Heraldic note on coat of arms of Lord Grenville (see 37, 49, 135).
Goodenough asks leave to nominate PE as steward of the 'Westminster meeting' for 1824, and for recommendations for a text book for the 6th Form.
J Allen from Rome (Via Bambuino). About to take a villa in Frascati - news of friends - PE has only recently left.
J Black encloses a parcel of books from Prof Hermann in Leipzig, and offers to take parcels to Germany on his monthly expeditions.
R Finch in Rome to PE in Florence. Apologises for not having accomplished PE's 2 commissions. Niebuhr has been ill, and he hopes to persuade Amati on the morrow to collate the 4 mss of Sophocles. Hopes Jenkyns will not succeed Parsons as Master of Balliol (he did). Has heard of a good ms of Suidas in the Roman College. Miller has fallen and hurt his shoulder. The Holy Roman Emperor (??? - tear in letter) has placed restrictions on ruin-hunters. Talk of the dating of some Roman antiquities. Ashbridge and Miller disagree on the merits of Vasi's Itinerary (of Naples).