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Encloses promised short score and music paper; saw Denis Browne yesterday, and will be happy to help with Dent's book where possible

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His brother-in-law H.A.L. Fisher is optimistic of obtaining backing to start 'English Opera'; has proposed that Fisher talk to Dent as representative of 'the younger generation'

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...

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Has been wounded in the shoulder; would like to see Dent, and copies of The Cambridge Magazine

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Has had a large number of visitors; would like Dent to come on Monday

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Is not allowed visitors until Tuesday; asks Dent to 'phone before visiting; A Room With A View is 'just what I wanted'; Counter-Attack reviewed in The Observer

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Trying to arrange a lunch meeting

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Hopes to see Dent in London, while on leave

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Has written to 'the CB' asking to see him in Cambridge; will call on Dent

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Arrangements for visit to Cambridge, to be 'inspected by this Military Don'; has not been declared unfit for foreign service

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Did not return from America in time to send anything to Piccoli; welcomes Dent's work on 17th-century English opera; Clive Carey is 'well fitted with his job and must be a godsend to the soldiers with his singing'

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Whereabouts of his will - Dent is named as executor

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Glad to learn that Figaro is finished; has suggested to Mrs Browne that Denis's music be given by Mrs Murphy to Cambridge University via Dent, postcard

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His infirmities have led him to put off his return to Cambridge; will try for the War Office in March; has been reading some familiar music: The Lotos Eaters, Aida, and Otello; memories of CUMS performances

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Thanks for the wedding present; observes that there are many who would contribute to put the CUMC on its feet

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'[T]he Cavaliere's crown is a sort of consolation prize' [Wilson was appointed Cavaliere in the Order of the Crown of Italy]; sorry that the [CUM] Club is closed; would like a lamp as a wedding present

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Is obliged to decline proffered membership of the Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...

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Has been passed A1; leave obtained through 'inventing' an ailing relative; thoroughly miserable and uncomfortable; an insane Marlburian

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Is unwell and will leave for Newdigate; is to make 'a legal prosecution of a slight but delicate nature'

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Does not appreciate being once again a private soldier; recognises no one; attractive comrades

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Enjoys being 'pleasantly miserable'; Dent's chair upholstery; his young Army friend; sees better prospects of a peace; many of his OCB friends have been killed in France

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Letters to Robson, with the exception of Add. 8190/13, on botanical and other matters.

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The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

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The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.