(Misdated 1 Jan. 1820, and as a result bound in the wrong volume. The day being the first of the 1830s, the mistake is easily explicable.)
(Etching. By Coke’s name in the index for 1812 Dawson Turner has written, ‘his portrait by Mrs D. T. inserted’.)
Walmer Castle, Deal.
(The letter bears marks of its preparation for the press.)
Transcript
Norwich, July 1st. 1817.
My dear Sir,
I have just been doing what I never before did, & hope never to do again; I have married a wife {1}—a woman nearly my own age, very plain; very deformed, without an accomplishment or a guinea.
Yours faithfully
Js. Layton.
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{1} James Layton and Lydia Roach were married by licence at the church of St Simon and St Jude, Norwich, the same day. Layton was 37 years of age at the time of his marriage; his wife’s age is unclear.
Barnsley. - Conveying the sympathies of the members of the Society.
Aviemore.
These papers consist primarily of writings by E. H. Neville which are accompanied by a small amount of correspondence, and a box of offprints of articles by and about Neville. Some of the writings are identified, but many are not, and it is not clear if the unidentified writings are lecture notes or drafts of one or more books for publication. These unidentified writings tend to be fair copies, with few alterations. Correspondents include W. W. Rouse Ball, W. E. H. Berwick, A. R. [Forsyth?], E. G. Gallop, Amy Herman, R. A. Herman, J. Jackson, J. E. Littlewood (about G. H. Hardy), and W. F. Sheppard.
Neville, Eric Harold (1889-1961), mathematician and educationistNot including their correspondence.