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Papers relating to Manley's work in England and overseas

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Correspondence, in various hands. The letters deal for the most part with printers' and other errors discovered by James Dixon in the published works of the various correspondents. The correspondents include J. Dixon; T.B. Macaulay, Lord Macaulay; J.B. Marsden; R. Martineau; Mrs Gaskell; W. Whewell; J. Hutchison; F.O. Morris; W.E.H. Lecky; J. Bigelow; J. Morley, Viscount Morley; M. Pattison; C.R. Darwin; M. Arnold; E. Dowden; A. Austin; G.A. Sala; J.A. Froude; M. Napier; and H.Anstey.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Eagle was a keen botanist, with a particular interest in mosses and lichens, which are the subject of most of the present correspondence. After Eagle's death his collection of mosses was bought by Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, of Barton Hall near Bury (Add.8184/42). Some or all of Eagle's botanical correspondence seems to have passed to his fellow Bury botanist, Edmund Skepper (1825-67). Skepper's widow gave the letters of William Wilson listed below (and probably also the...

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Robert Graves is alive; is convalescing in England; 'The Father': 'an absurd poem', was influenced by Spoon River, that 'nasty book'

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G[abriel Atkin] returns to Newcastle tomorrow, 'having successfully got rid of his gratuity'; wants E M Forster to write for the Daily Herald, of which he has become literary editor

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Letter from Albert Venn Dicey to Henrietta Emma Litchfield née Darwin; written at Oxford

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This group of papers concerns one stage in the long campaign to relax the hold of compulsory Greek on the University's curriculum and examinations, culminating in the publication of two reports by the Studies and Examinations Syndicate in 1904 and 1906.

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Letter from Benjamin Collins Brodie jr to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Charles Pritchard to Sir George Howard Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Charles Pritchard to Thomas George Bonney; written at Oxford postcard

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Letter from Edith Evans to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Edward Hartopp Cradock née Grove to Sir Francis Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Eleanor Corbet to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Elinor Mary Dicey née Bonham Carter to Sir Francis Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Ellen Darwin née Crofts to Sir Francis Darwin; written at [Oxford] in with envelope

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Letter from Francis Sorrell Arnold to Sir Francis Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Friedrich Max Müller to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter to Osbert John Radclyffe Howarth; written at Oxford See items 262.20: 1-5 in with envelope annotated by Osbert John Radclyffe Howarth in outer Down House envelope

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Letter from George Rolleston to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from George Rolleston to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from George Rolleston to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from George Rolleston to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from George Rolleston to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford

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Letter from George Rolleston to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford in with enclosure

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Letter from George Rolleston to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Oxford in with enclosure

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