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The Order and Method of the Bible. Letters addressed to a Cambridge Professor, 1887 - 1927-10-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WOR/2/3

Scope and Contents

Title continues: with charts, a continuation found among Dr Worsley's papers after his death in 1885, and an appendix. Printed for private circulation. (Cambridge).
Includes table of contents of The Province of the Intellect in Religion and introduction explaining Worsley's work and numerical theory.
Annotated on title page: (Sir Gabriel Stokes, Prof. Westcott having declined to be the addressee)
With letters from C.S. Kenny pasted inside cover.


Dates

  • Creation: 1887 - 1927-10-07

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Biographical / Historical

From the introduction to the book, by a kinsman, W.C. Worsley: (Up to his death, Worsley) laboured anxiously at his favourite subject, painfully going over former work, revising, altering, polishing. The great desire of his life was to publish the results of the many years of study which followed his last Christian Advocate's Publication. The great regret of his later life was that he could not do this. The material which had grown upon his hands had become too extensive and too complicated for the powers of a man of his age and physical condition. At his death it was found that he had left, in a form ready for publication in his opinion, a continuation of two - Letters to a Cambridge Professor - printed for private circulation some years before, on the Order and Method of the Bible. The work is incomplete. It bears abundant marks of advanced age. But his nearest relatives feel bound, by their regard for the earnest wish of one they loved so dearly, to print the treatise so far as it goes, at least for private circulation. They are fully aware that it does far less justice to that bright intelligence which had such a charm for a large circle of affectionate relatives and friends. (Hovingham, York 1887)

Extent

1 volume(s) (Volume) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

V19/2/1; 2.6

Immediate Source of Acquisition

These volumes (ie. the Worsley publications) were given to the Master, A.C. Seward, 7 Oct. 1927, by C.S. Kenny. An accompanying note from Kenny reads: As you expressed your kind willingness to accept Dr Worsley's four volumes, I now bring them.'. The fourth volume is missing.

Originator(s)

Worsley, Thomas

Finding aid date

2001-07-03 14:44:48+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Downing College Repository

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