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Liddell, Henry George (1811-1898), lexicographer and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
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Letter from Henry George Liddell
Add. MS a/208/43 · Item · 8 Mar. 1850
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

15 Deans Yard - Thanks WW for his second work on a liberal education ['Of a Liberal Education in General...2. Discussions and Changes 1840-1850', 1850]: 'I am bound to admit the justice of your Remarks'. HGL has plans to write something similar on education but his priority at present is 'to revive (what was almost extinct) a sound and accurate knowledge of grammar, that I have considered all things to be postponed to this'. HGL has had a tough time educating the boys aged 16 and 17 - this year's crop are most unpromising. He cannot count on the boys doing their best for the Election Examination: 'You know well, that the Studentship at Christ Church are, in point of perpetuity and income, much better than your scholarships; and both Parents and Boys covet them. I know that cases have occurred, when boys have purposely hung back in point of mathematics, in the chance of being rejected by the Master of Trinity'. HGL has tried to find a remedy for this but cannot.
Letter from F. W. Lawrence to Edith Jane Durning-Lawrence
Letter from F. W. Lawrence to Edith Jane Durning-Lawrence
PETH/6/4 · Item · 23 Feb. 1898
Part of Pethick-Lawrence Papers

Bombay.—Sends part of an ‘encyclical’ (part of 5/30b), and responds to her news of family members and neighbours. The plague at Bombay presents no danger to Europeans.

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Bombay.
Feb 23. 98

My dear Tante

I am sending you with this the conclusion of my second encyclical {1} which gives all my movements up to date so that there is very little to add.

I think it is a capital plan of yours taking the name of Durning-Lawrence, and I, for one, thoroughly approve. (Not that my lordly approval was in the least required!)

I am glad you think Harry getting on a bit but one is always so afraid that it is only a case of up & down; from a letter which I have from him this week I understand that he is now at Cannes & is going on to Nice.

You seem to have been losing several Ascot neighbours Sir R Mead &, old Dean Liddell; it was strange that he should have died so shortly after Lewis Carroll; I think you used to say Alice in Wonderland was written for one of the Dean’s children.

Out at Fatehpur Sikri I met 2 Cambridge men, brothers, of the name of Reckitt {2}; I did not know them before, but I understand the elder is MP of N. Lincolnshire & knows Uncle E a little bit.

You will probably have seen that Bombay is somewhat stricken with plague just now, but there is not the smallest danger for Europeans. Even among those brought into close contact with plague stricken people it is exceedingly rarely that anyone is affected at all.

With best love to all, hoping Uncle E is in great form in the House.

Ever Your affte Neffe
Fredk W Lawrence.

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{1} PETH 5/30b, probably pp. 91–106.

{2} Harold James and Philip Bealby Reckitt. The former was the MP.
Letter from T. Fowler to Henry Sidgwick
Add. MS c/93/144 · Item · 12 Feb 1898
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Reports that at the College meeting that day, he was unanimously requested to ask Sidgwick if he would accept the nomination as a permanent elector to the Chair of Moral Philosophy, in place of the late Dean Liddell. Lists the other electors, including various professors and the Vice-Chancellor. Hopes that he will accept. Apologises for raising so many objections in relation to Sidgwick's book [Practical Ethics, see 93/142] but points out that 'they only applied to one particular point.' Thanks him for his reply, which has enabled him to see Sidgwick's position more clearly. Proposes that they not prolong their correspondence on the matter any further, and withdraws the expression 'throwing aspersions on a class of men on account of their religious beliefs' which he had used in a previous letter in relation to Sidgwick's book, and some ideas contained therein.

 Fowler, Thomas (1832-1904), philosopher and college head
William Bazeley correspondence
Add. MS b/114 · File · [19th-20th cent]
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Volume of letters from a number of correspondents, who are represented by one or two letters each. Many of the correspondents are identified at the top of the page on which the letter is mounted, in the form of an autograph book.

 Bazeley, William (1843-1925) canon of Gloucester, antiquary