- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-1-24
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- c. 1820
Mr Barnard after spending the day in Ch Ch didn't receive PE's note to come round till his return home
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Mr Barnard after spending the day in Ch Ch didn't receive PE's note to come round till his return home
Percival Hart Dyke re his son Percy - caught with coachmen in his rooms (offence of driving) - rusticated from Oxford, and now the question of moving to Cambridge
Robert Bourne acknowledge receipt of note and liberal fee. Will visit again, but hopes that PE will soon be cured
William Tayler (Isle of Wight) re finishing the Tuscan Room and the Pheasantery
J Parker (uncle? Helensburgh near Glasgow) - progress of a court case to do with a trust - some gossip, remarks on Bonaparte, and family news
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.
Invitation from John Bowring to be a steward at a public dinner to express 'public opinion and feeling in relation to Greek independence'
John Conybeare hoping for letter and visit. Maybe the Heads of Houses will give him the Bampton Lecture for 24 (they did!)
William Morgan Clifford asking PE for help in gaining admission for his nephew to Ch Ch in 2 years
John Crawford in Rome to PE in Oxford - Talks of a printed catalogue in PE's hands of what remains to be sole from the (Sciarra) Colonna library in Rome. Both have been ill and recovered. The Alban Hills are free of brigands and quite safe.