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115: with verse, 'A noble Balade of Archery...' [1827 or later].

Apostles funds low, donations to the Spanish cause, wishes to discuss the matter

Re memorial to John Mitchell Kemble.
With annotations.

40 Weymouth Street. - His son [Charles Edward Donne] has been appointed vicar of Faversham; comments in Latin; Woolner's very good posthumous bust of John Kemble,

8 Craven Hill, Bayswater.—Thanks him for the interest he has shown in his son John, whom he has instructed to behave better. He has decided to restrict his allowance to £200 a year, and to remove him from Trinity if he exceeds it.

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8 Craven Hill, Bayswater
Feby 10th 1827.

My dear Sir,

I was in hopes that the present week would have afforded me sufficient leisure to pay you a short visit at Cambridge, that I might personally express to you the very lively gratitude which I feel for the great interest you have shewn in my son’s {1} welfare; but I am disappointed, and must therefore entreat your acceptance of my written acknowledgment of it, untill an opportunity shall offer of fulfilling my intention which, believe me, I shall eagerly embrace. I have, in consequence of your last letter, said every thing my mind could suggest to convince John of his error and to induce him to adopt a line of conduct more conducive to his own reputation and the satisfaction of his parents and of yourself, my dear Sir; and if it were not exacting too much of you, it would be doing both my son and me a most essential service, if you would inform him that I, having made diligent enquiries upon the subject, and having that the sons of many distinguished and noble families have passed through the University with honor to themselves upon two hundred pounds a year, I have determined, henceforward, to limit his allowance to that sum; and that if he exceeds it, I shall feel it my duty to erase his name from the books of Trinity, and leave him to battle his way through the world with others who, like himself, may have been foolish and wicked enough to squander the talents and advantages with which it has pleased God to bless them—pray excuse me for the task which I now request you to perform it; it cannot, I am certain, be an agreeable {1} one, but from the uncommon interest which you have expressed towards my son I feel a conviction that you will confer this additional obligation upon him who must always consider himself already

My dear Sir, | Your most obliged & obedient Servant
C. Kemble.

[Direction:] George Peacock Esqre | &c &c &c | Trinity College | Cambridge

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Postmarked 12 February 1827.

{1} The writer’s son, John Mitchell Kemble, later a distinguished Anglo-Saxon scholar, was admitted at Trinity on 26 June 1824 and assigned Robert Wilson Evans as his tutor, but it is clear that Evans shared responsibility for him with Peacock, his partner in one of the two tutorial sides between 1823 to 1835 (see Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge, vol. iv, 1801 to 1850, p. v).

{2} The second ‘e’ is blotted, perhaps deliberately.

WW has 'been dining with the Bishop of London of whom you talk so ireverently. In defence of my reference to him I have this to say: that my principal object in the passage you refer to was to present to peoples minds a view in which they might rest, with no disquisitive from fear of dangerous error, and wish something like a primitive idea in a case when human nature craves it'. WW thought that in 'such a case the opinion of a man of good practical understanding, which Blomfield [Charles J. Blomfield] is, though no metaphysician, and of a bishop to boot, was very much suited to my purpose'. John M. Kemble is to lecture on Anglo-Saxon next term: 'It appears to be likely that he will be well attended, and one might if once chose make it an occasion of reviving the Philological Society'.

Draft of a proposal for the gathering of words, with assignments to members accompanied by a note from JMK [John Mitchell Kemble], with miscellaneous etymological notes, including notes on German irregular verbs.

Hagley - will send 650 copies of his election address to Blakesley, [John Mitchell] Kemble worked admirably in London, nonsense about Trinity and St John's in the Cambridge Chronicle

Has received letters from Spain, Trench complains of the lack of preparation of Torrijos, failure at Algeciras, plan of campaign, Mina a scoundrel, Donne's fears for Trench and Kemble

Raby's lodgings, Torquay - Kemble with Torrijos in Spain, has been reading classical authors

14 Devonshire Place. Plymouth - Trench's sonnets, ignorance of the whereabouts of Trench, congratulates Blakesley, Kemble in pursuit of a hopeless cause, great lawmakers not democrats, proposals for altering the litany, Muller's Doricus

Mattishall - will meet him at Southwold, Vipan [? cured by homeopathy], people of Plymouth favour Calvinism, Kemble not written for two years

Mattishall - glad that Johnson had met Blakesley at Cambridge, has heard of Sterling from the Trenches, Kemble editor of the British and Foreign Review, Church rate bill

Temple - Charles Wordsworth, Tayler, Hallam, Milnes and Grey elected to "our club", Spencer Perceval had Martineau ejected from the gallery of the House of Commons, young Ponsonby suffering from rheumatism, gonorrhoea etc, [John Mitchell] Kemble mysterious in his movements

Glad to become a trustee for Blakesley, will try to find the lost paper of Bunsen, disappointed that Kemble was not elected [University Librarian], wishes him happiness in his marriage to Miss Holmes