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St Peters, 2 Benet Place. Will be coming with Ellen to the Seaman's Mission meeting at the Lodge, is pleased to hear that Rose has accepted the post of Head of the D.R.U.
Drumore, Blairgowrie, N.B. Dated October 1, 1909 - Thanks him for ['Passages of the Bible'], thinks the Authorised Version of the Bible is the channel through which the Classics have exercised their best influence.
Pictures at
'Par le coeur tres pres de vous ce soir' [the opening night of 'Amadeus'].
From 1759, re visit to Oxford, 'I have proposed to Vansittart climbing over the wall, but he refused me'.
Acknowledges £5. Contains French addresses noted by Milnes.
38 Clarges St. - Sets down enquiry which Milnes agreed to place before Mignet or Guizot; found reference in the second edition of the Handbook of Spain, which does not favour Mignet; will write separately if appropriate. Appends enquiry about obtaining access to Gonzalez' abstract of letters written by companions of Charles V to Secretary Vasquez, said to be in Mignet's possession, for a life of Don Juan of Austria.
The New Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. - Cannot repeat arrangements here next year as the Viceroy [Isma'il Pasha] has acquired the building for a school; he favours the idea of an English sanitorium; support from the Earl of Dudley or Sir Henry Bulwer would assure her success; can Houghton assist, as they cannot be reached at present? Also seeks Houghton's recommendation to the Viceroy's surgeon Dr Bourgier and others.
Ticks, some crossed through, and other annotations in pencil and red crayon. Many items are marked 'B'; a note states that these were bequeathed to Trinity by Rev. G. A. Browne, Vice-Master, in 1843. Signature of Anatole von Hügel [Curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology] acknowledging receipt of items on 27 May 1914 at the bottom of the sixth sheet. The last sheet is a note by C. B. Hurry, Sub-Librarian, listing items which were found some years after 1914 'tucked away in dark corners' and 'sent (as part of the loan of 1914)' to the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology on 5 May 1924.
Highgate. - Encloses a correction slip [no longer present] for p 214 of his book of translations from Italian.