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Add. MS c/1/91 · Item · 9 Sept. 1856
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Glenlair. Has been at Aberdeen, is now on holiday with friends, invites Litchfield, mentions friends Robert Henry Pomeroy and Wilfred Lucas Heeley, discusses different ways of summing up the personalities of friends.

Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1832-1903) Barrister Clerk to Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Add. MS c/1/88 · Item · 15 Oct. 1857
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Glenlair. His aunt Mrs Wedderburn has learned of the murders of her cousin John Wedderburn and his wife and child in the Indian rebellion, and her son John and his wife in Moultan have had to disarm troops and dismiss others; is glad to have read the letter [Robert Henry Pomeroy’s last?]; reflects on Good and Evil; has almost finished with his work on Saturn’s Rings; illness continues in the house of the little girl who died.

Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1832-1903) Barrister Clerk to Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Add. MS c/1/87 · Item · 23 Sept. 1856
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Glenlair – Reacts to news of Robert Henry Pomeroy’s death in the Indian rebellion and reflects at length on memory and grief; a little girl in one of his men’s houses has died; is at home for a month with his aunt Mrs [Isabella] Wedderburn.

Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1832-1903) Barrister Clerk to Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Add. MS c/1/81 · Item · 28 Nov. 1855
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Trin. Coll. Gives a report of Robert Henry Pomeroy’s illness; is busy with questionists regularly now, is about to get out some optical things to show them; has heard nothing from Cheltenham, Moderator [William Henry] Besant is recovering the use of one side of his face.

Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1832-1903) Barrister Clerk to Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Add. MS c/1/80 · Item · 6 June 1855
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Trin. Coll. [Robert Henry] Pomeroy has formed a swimming club at Cambridge; has been busy with electrical reading this term and is working to come up with appropriate ideas, has been ‘sifting’ the theory of light and making everything stand upon experiments and definite assumptions, describes the difference between dogs eyes and human eyes.

Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1832-1903) Barrister Clerk to Ecclesiastical Commissioners