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'Mr. Glaister appears to have discharged the objects of his mission yesterday' - about wind register; observatory undertakes no expense; results must all go to one place of publication; 'Daily News', as first organiser of scheme, seems entitled to first regard; three parties subscribed; Observatory is poorest - it will help in scientific part; 'Daily News' will publish; railway companies bear expense of apparatus and observations - they should bear cost of vanes

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'Sent by the post to a gentleman of each College, in the University, Jany. the 4th. 1750.' They have not been consulted about changes in University for 'time immemorial'; hope that the right may be restored to them in remodelling of laws and customs and statutes; ask that a delegation may attend next meeting

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Scope and Contents He opened a book at random and received 'this direst blow'; if Fitzgerald was an admirable person, 'this seems to aggravate rather than lighten the outrage'; though Fitzgerald disliked Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, he need not have expressed 'relief at her death'; he will 'try and forget the sad business' and end his desire to know Fitzgerald; returns Lady Tennyson's sympathetic letter - a pity that Fitzgerald's words were not confined to his appreciative circle of friends; 'I hope...

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In an envelope marked '(Private) Dr. Bence Jones'; both contained in an envelope marked 'Autograph of W.M. Thackeray'

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Sends photograph of head of Döllinger painted by Leinsbach and given to Herschel, to give to her father

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Asks for Blakesley's photograph, to put with other friends'; like Blakesley's 'Herodotus' - 'made more clear to me than by any other notes I ever saw'; Morton's nets are for flies, not mosquitos; Fitzgerald copied much out of Morton's letters before he burnt them

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He hears about Blakesley, even if he gets only one letter a year from him; met Blakesley's brother, Dean of Ely, at Lowestoft; Master of Trinity seems to be recovering from his illness, at Ventnor

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Illness prevented his going to London to see Donne; encloses Mrs Kemble's letter, to send on to Merivale; Mrs Kemble: 'as true, good, brave, and head- and heart-noble, woman as breathes'

Scope and Contents Blakesley's visit to Miss Kemble will please her, because he knew 'Jack', her brother; she maintained her brother Henry's illegitimate son, who against her hopes, has gone on the stage as an 'eccentric comedian'; until two years ago, Fitzgerald had not seen her for twenty years; her loyalty to her family and all who knew them; he did not admire her as an actree or reader 'which is but far aloof from her own opinion of her merits'; Jack's recitation of Hotspur and Alexander's Feast at Bury...

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He hardly went away from home in 1881; decline in health of Mowbray Donne's father reported by Mrs Kemble; he stayed in Cambridge - first time for thirty years; Master of Trinity is recovering

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Scope and Contents Lord Raglan is anxious for news of Kinglake; did not realise he might be 'ill en route'; Romaine will help anyone who comes with an introduction from Kinglake, especially Kinglake's friend; S.C. Deniston, Judge Advocate General, London, sent his brother on the same errand; Airey approves Romaine's scheme for distribution of goods: chief virtue is that commissaries have nothing to do with it; men from trenches have had to walk 20 miles to Balaclava to bring salt and biscuit; railway will not...

Scope and Contents Government has been most thoughtful and generous in relieving suffering and discomfort 'in the hope of rendering our winter bearable'; good supply of clothes; reinforcements must still be sent; sickness increasing; 'Hospitals are filled'; the French moved British sick from plateau to Balaclava for embarkation; roads so impassable, only mules can travel; government has done all possible about care of sick; 'The siege has been lagging ever since Inkermann'; impossible to drag guns up from...

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Until his hut comes from Constantinople, he is in a tent formerly Sir C. Colebrooke's, with five pregnant Tatar women, interpreters, and insects; suspicion that it is not intended to take Sebastopol; people talk about Lord Raglan in a surprising way; 'Miss Palmer a great heiress', when she arrived, was at once summoned to lunch, but Lord Raglan never asked about the condition of the sick in hospital

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He complains about Lord Raglan's 'confouned comfortable white house' near Sebastopol, 'the bane of our army'; if he had lived in camp, thousands of lives might have been spared; Burgoyne has always favoured an assault, not 'engineering and artillerying'; an attack may occur when it is not expected; 'There is no folly too great for us to commit and no amount of hard fighting we wont go thro' to redeem it'; Kinglake's pony, fit and well, is ridden by the doctor

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Glad to know from J.J. Thomson that Paget is writing the life of his father [Sir James Paget (1814-99), surgeon]; 'I sought every opportunity of conversing with him, but we exchanged only very few letters'; reminiscences; Lord Houghton's opposition to Paget's father's proposed membership of a club; suggested enemies: Sir W. Fergusson, Cooper, Lawrence, Liston, Syme; Paget did not think much of Gull

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Thanks for papers on Irish Biblical manuscripts; curious Irish/British spelling of Latin words; use of 'f' for 'ph' in 5th century Weingarten manuscript of Prophets; a visit from Feltoe, doing Lucifer's quotations for Cambridge Septuagint, then Novatian; Burkitt still working on Tyconias, much work on Syriac, Sinai palimpsest of Old Syriac - to be published

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Sends a notebook with index to St Hilary's quotations, copied from Professor Sanday; it may be useful to Bernard; question of arrangement of quotations from Latin Fathers; Burkitt thinks editor should have 'every word of the exact quotations'; only fixed Latin standard is the Vulgate; sees distinction for textual purposes between allusions to Biblical events or doctrines, and allusions to words used to express them

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Will send his new book, trying to prove St Augustine's 'Itala' was the Vulgate; may call in Dublin on his way to Northern Ireland

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An honour to be invited to apply for Oriental Professorship at Trinity College Dublin, 'the most brilliant Society that I have ever seen; declines to stand: knows no Persian or Hindustani, not much Arabic; no real interest in Arab civilisation and Islam; 'I am above all things a student of Biblical and early Christian literature.'

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Hopes to be able to give a lecture in Dublin, possibly on the theology of Aphraates and the 'Acts of Thomas'; R.A. Nicholson would like to stand for the Trinity College Oriental Professorship