Item 184 - Letter from H M Butler to George Butler

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BUTJ/M/3/1/184

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Letter from H M Butler to George Butler

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  • 16 Nov 1851 (Creation)

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Butler, Henry Montagu (1833-1918), college head
(1833-1918)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College Cambridge. Is finding it difficult to study both mathematics and classics at the same time, would not wish to give up reading classics for a term as the Bell Scholarship exam is approaching, making steady progress in maths, algebra "the most inhuman and barbarous composition that has ever been concocted for the torture of the brain", reading Horace, sermon by Blunt, Thackeray in Cambridge lecturing on the humorists of the nineteenth-century.

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