Scope and Contents Hopes he received a packet containing Gesenius etc.; he is getting on well with Duncan's work, which needs 'great research and care', and will give him 'great experience'; he must insert a tract as appendix to the Dictionary, on the Hebrew and Greek article, and can insert Duncan's engraving of the plan of the Temple, 'and so secure to your purchasers, a Biblical apparatus to be found in no other Lexicon'; his intention in inserting article, is to give 'a far clearer insight into the...

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Accepting dinner invitation

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On a printed sheet, 'Hymn to be sung by the boys educated in the Charity School at Lancaster, on Sunday the 11th day of September, 1796: 'As in the ambient starry train, unequal radiance glows'

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Johnson, Oriental assistant, will give Arabic instruction to her friend; they will receive Mrs Rich and Mr and Mrs Scott; Malthus admired Scott 'when I heard him preach in Mr Swine's chapel some time ago', but fears his opinions are not now so reasonable

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He cannot promise admission to East India College for Mackenzie's nephew, 13-year old Erskine; age of admission will soon be 17; new entrance examination; if a promise of a place can be made, it will affect Erskine's education in the meantime

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Professor McCoy's work on Palaeozoic fossils of Woodwardian Museum mentions graptolites at Lockerby; where may they be found?; they are found in profusion in Dumfriesshire; what is the nature of 'Lockerby slate'?

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He recommends Dixon's work on chalk fosils, and Owen's 'Fossil British mammals' for diluvial bones; he did not know that the address, Erith, was in Kent: he thought it was Erith in Cambridgeshire; he will be happy to show his Museum in Cambridge

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Papers on controversy between Sedgwick and Beverley have been taken by mistake to Trinity Library; Sedgwick did not wish it to be public; White obtained permission to keep the volume of papers in Trinity Library; it might be better to keep it in the Master's Lodge Library

Scope and Contents Thanks for 'Proceedings'; books required; he would like a description of rodents he presented to the Society; his manuscript notes only given habitat; a South American species; he knows it has been taken on the 'Beagle' voyage; Darwin sends his specimens to Cambridge; another specimen, a Peruvian cavy, presented to a 'Beagle' officer by an American sealing officer, Cutler; if it is new, he proposes 'Cutleri' as the name; another cavy from the east coast of Patagonia; he has distributed small...

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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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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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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