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50 Wilton Crescent {1}
Saturday | April 26' {2}
My dear Humphry
Thanks for the lunch we will appear at 2.pm. Certainly enter me for scratch fours please. I am glad I have hit off something. I must come and look at the Parade also on Monday. If you have not yet entered for Middlesex Assoc' Meeting don't till I have seen you.
In Haste
Yrs very truly
Waldegrave
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Black-edged paper.
{1} Waldegrave's London residence.
{2} '1873' has been added in pencil.
Probably a commercially-produced print. Captioned below by hand, ‘South Side VII. | Worthies of the College.’
Of a similar date to the photograph on f. 2r.
‘Haud facile Capitur à diabalo [sic], qui bono vacat exercitio.’ (St Jerome.) Probably written at Leipzig. The writer’s title is ‘SS. Theol[ogiæ] Doct[or] et Prof[essor] Publ[icus] in Acad[emia] Lips[iensi] Canonicus Cizens[is]’. Addressed to [Balthasar Friedrich] Saltzmann, assessor of the faculty of philosophy in the University of Leipzig.
Francke, 12 Oct. 1740.
Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Wir wird ein Jüngling seinen Weg unsträflich gehen? | Wenn er sich hält nach deinen Worten.’ (Psalms, cxix. 9.) Dated at Halle. (ii) ‘Ἰεσους Χριστὸς χθὲς [sic] καὶ σήμερον ὁ ἀυτὸς καὶ είς τοὺς ἀιῶνας.’ (Hebrews, xiii. 8.) Dated at Halle.
Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Τὰ πάντα κ[α]ὶ έν πᾶσιν ὀ Χριστός.’ (Colossians, iii. 11.) ‘Symb. Jesus Hereditas Mea.’ Dated at Halle. Numbered 259. (ii) ‘Omnia et in omnibus Jesus Christus.’ Dated at Halle.
‘Ἐνὸς ἔστι Χρεία.’ (Luke, x. 42.) ‘Unum hoc necessarium sedulo urgendum.’ Dated at The Hague. Addressed to (Elias) Silberrad. Numbered 221. A note has been added recording Meuschen’s later appointment to positions at Hanau.
‘Fac quod velles fecisse moriturus.’ ‘Quod Tibi, hoc Alteri.’ Dated at Jena. Numbered 145.
(Illustration engraved by James Fittler from a drawing by Nicholas Pocock.)
‘Tempora, Tempore, Tempera.’ Dated at Strasbourg.
Removed from a copy of the Supplement to the Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, vol. lxxiii.
(A few clumsy inscriptions and decorations have been added by hand.)
Two inscriptions on one sheet, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the quarto. (i) ‘Quamlibet horam puta esse ultimam.’ Motto (‘Symb.’) in Hebrew. Addressed to (Balthasar Friedrich) Saltzmann. Dated at Leipzig. (ii) ‘Inter brachia Salvatoris mei et vivere volo et mori cupio.’ ‘Symb: Iesu Meritum Mea Fiducia.’ Dated at Wittenberg.
‘Quærite mortales primum coelestia regna, | Tum reliquæ vobis adjicientur opes.’ (Matthew, vi. 33.) ‘Symb σωφρόνως καὶ δικαίως καὶ ἐυσεβῶς.’ (Titus, ii. 12.) Dated at Bremen. Addressed to someone passing through Bremen on the way to Belgium (‘Bremam ad Belgas transeunti’). Numbered 183.
‘Praesens est imperfectum[;] perfectum et plusquamperfectum est futurum.’ Dated at Dresden.
(Designed and drawn by William Brand; engraved by Benjamin Howlett. Engraving published 1 Jan. 1805.)
‘Nil nisi Jesum, eundemque crucifixum. | Quia | Crux Christi unica est eruditio verborum Dei, | Theologia sincerissima.’ (1 Corinthians, ii. 2, and Luther, Operationes in Psalmos.) ‘Symbol. Διὰ δυσφημίας καῖ ἐυφημίας.’ (2 Corinthians, vi. 8.) Dated at Giessen, ‘prid[ie] fest[i] Pasch[ae]’. Addressed to Elias Silberrad. Numbered 115.
(Designed and drawn by William Brand; engraved by Benjamin Howlett. Engraving published 1 Jan. 1805.)
Caen.—Asks for about thirty armed men to be sent to St Vaast, where a gathering of Chouans is expected on 3 April. A man named Dufresne has been replaced as a military agent because he was thought to be engaged in suspicious activities.
(Dated 13 Germinal, an 4. Certified by Lévêque as a true copy.)