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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

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Glad to have news of Dublin from Miss White of Alexandra College; Provost of Trinity College Dublin's evidence to a Commission, and inaction about Alexandra College; do dedications to St Patrick at Heysham, Lancashire, show that he was shipwrecked there in the 'desert', not in France?

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Who is the Coptic scholar with whom Dr Atkinson is dealing? Where was the article?

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Agrees there should not be a long Parliamentary adjournment, 'in face of European turmoil'

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Thanks for interesting enclosures: sure that Government would not consider such a proposal

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A speech copied out of Hansard for Lord Lansdowne; glad Lansdowne is recovering from his operation

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Lord Kitchener went to France before they could find out the decision in the case of Sir F. Stafford; could Lansdowne say what the next step will be?

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German Athenaeum Club wound up under Trading with the Enemy Act 1916, so there would be no public report

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Encloses letters, hopes Lansdowne will consult on 'This most urgent and important subject'; intention to publish opinions for and against of 'some of the best minds'; the book to appear 'in all the languages' - contributions, when received, in 4 or 5 leading European and American journals; hopes Lansdowne will take part; list of British contributors

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Lansdowne to keep a copy

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If he outlives Stephen, he will publish any unfinished book by Stephen, without making alterations; he would not like to execute the biography of Stephen: would leave out much intimate matter; Stephen should leave detailed instructions; 'I should like to think that the men who read your books would know a little of your devoted love and your sorrow.'

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