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Add. MS b/36/115 · Stuk · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Zanzibar - Writes in answer to Frazer's request for information, is about to go to Madagascar and if Frazer thinks it useful, will supply him with information there; otherwise he should contact Rev. W. E. Taylor, who is the best Swahili scholar in East Africa.

Add. MS c/60/115 · Stuk · 31 Jan. 1916
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

P. & O.S.N. Co. S.S. 'Mongolia', Address The Residency, Udaipur, Rajputana - Asks for his support to be elected to the Athenaeum; has collected the customs and manners of Chinese Turkestan; is now to take up the post of Resident in Udaipur.

Add. MS c/95/115 · Stuk · 26 Apr 1894
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

States that he is very much obliged by Sidgwick's paper, which he declares to be very interesting and more than he expected to get. Suggests that if any difficulty occurs they will discuss it when they meet at Oxford. Explains that the gap in attendances noticed by Sidgwick 'is accounted for by Fitzjames's [ie J.F. Stephen's] absence from Cambridge for that interval.'

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Add. MS c/99/115 · Stuk · 11 Feb [1867]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Asks her to try to locate a book, [Pneumatologie:] Des Esprits... by Mirville, which was lent to him by Miss Attersoll, and which he gave to his mother 'some time ago'. Explains that Attersoll has written to him asking for it. Wonders whether she is 'a favourable subject for a convert', and intends to try to instil 'a little "Spiritualism" into her by recommending her another book or two of the same kind.' Reports that they expect their Greek professor to be elected the following day [Benjamin Hall Kennedy was chosen]. Refers to the fact that William is to write one of the Reform essays, and that it is advertised in the Pall Mall Gazette. Informs her that Mr and Mrs Paul are to come 'some time in the week after Easter.' Recommends a vendor of Hungarian wines, and suggests three labels. Hopes that Mr Martin is getting better, and reports that he went to see him the previous day. Admits that he is quite worried about his friend Cowell, whose father has just died very suddenly.

MAYR/B/8/115 · Stuk · 24 Sep 1823
Part of Mayor Papers

Visit to the American missionaries at Ordaville, geography and climate different from the south, Mrs Richards will enrich the Jaffna station, Dr Scudder preached in Tamil, Scudder exhausting himself, visited natives, Dr Scudder attracted them with his clarinet, remarkable church at Batticotta built by the Portugese, Mr and Mrs Poor, visit to Manefry, the Maternal Society: Nellore

Letter from George Airy
Add. MS a/200/115 · Stuk · 25 Nov. 1856
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Royal Observatory Greenwich - GA and Richarda Airy 'propose to offer you our company on Dec. 12'. GA gives his corrections to WW's Inductive Sciences [History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, 3rd edn., 1857] and apologises for the 'frightful' amount of references he gave on the progress of modern astronomy - 'I could not well give you fewer' [see GA to WW, 11 Oct. 1856].