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55, Regent's Quadrant. Sent to Richard Monckton Milnes at 26 Pall Mall. With illustrations.
12 North Audley Street. - Bill for attendance on Madam Le Roi, Apr.-Jul. 1838.
Including verse by R. M. Milnes.
Including referrals to charity schools.
Trin. Coll., Dublin - Thanks WW for his favourable letter concerning his Lectures on the Logical Method of Political Economy. The method of political economy is both inductive and deductive. The basis of deduction is both knowledge of principal motives actuating mankind in pursuit of wealth, and the principal conditions on which the results of industry depend. These represent general tendencies which indicate the direction inductive investigations should take: begin with a collection of actual cases and compare generalised results with a priori deductions. This way - as in the physical sciences - one should arrive at residual phenomena and be led to new principles. Hopes WW approves. He has not seen the work by Richard Jones which he refers to.
On headed notepaper for the Evening Star and South Wales Times, proprietor W. N. Johns. - Expressing sympathy on the death of C. W. King, whom he knew for many years and was very helpful in the preparation of a history on Newport, his native town. Wonders if anything from among King's possessions might be presented to the town for the Free LIbrary or Museum, to preserve the memory of 'one of Newport's most worthy sons'.
Addressed by Johns c/o Trinity College , Cambridge, forwarded on to Rev. H. L. Nelthropp at Upper Norwood.
At Mr Whitehurst's, Chirk.—Describes his journey (from Nuneaton), visiting Whitchurch and his sister at Llangollen. Is going to Croisllwd (Croesllwyd?) for the signing of an agreement.
(This letter was written some time between the departure of Francis Henry Egerton to Paris in 1802 and the death of his cousin the 3rd Duke and 6th Earl of Bridgewater on 8 March 1803. Since it comprises only a single sheet and there is no valediction, it is possible that it is incomplete.)
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Transcript
At Mr Whitehurst’s. Chirk
Friday Morning—
My dear Jane
Humphrey myself & two Sisters came here yesterday morning & stay’d dinner &c & Hump[h]r[e]y & I stopped all night—I had a very pleasant Journey to Wales thro’ Lichfield Stafford Eccleshall Market Drayton where I slept & started the next morning at six oClock for Whitchurch where I breakfasted I went to see the Church which is one of the handsomest I ever saw & so is the Income about 4000 £ P[e]r Annum the Rector is the Hon: Mr Eggerton first cousin to the Earl of BridgeWater who is the patron, the Rector is now in france has four Curates at 75 £ each but one is just left to take possession of a College living & the Other three are going to petition the trustees to divide his Salary between them & not to elect a fourth, the three Curates thinking themselves quite competent to do the duty between them—prayers every day, the other duty but little more than Nuneaton if any—From thence I came to Hanmer Overton by Winstay to Rhuabon & Llangollen where I safely arrived both me {1} & my Mare well & hearty between three & four in the afternoon on Tuesday Evening—My Sister Sally came to the door & did not know me until I spoke to her—She had been a little unwel† a week or two before but is fast recovering—I am going this Morning to Croisllwd to see Hugo with Mr Whitehurst Hump[hre]y David Edwards to sign an agreement between him & his Brothers that he shall have a Lease of all his Eldest Brother’s Lands for one and twenty years or for the joint lives of both his Brothers for their lives at a very low rent—I purpose being at home by Saturday week as I first {2} intended & unless you hear again from me to the contrary which is not likely you will expect me then—
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Some abbreviations by superscript letters have been expanded, the letters supplied being printed in square brackets. In the MS the indefinite article ‘a’ is sometimes attached to the succeeding word.
{1} A mark resembling a letter ‘d’ has been written over this word in pencil.
{2} Spelling uncertain.
† Sic.
Published by the Omega Workshops Ltd; [designed by Roger Fry]. With MS corrections by R. C. Trevelyan on [p. 1], p. 8.
On the spine is stamped 'Rudd and Perreau: Original Documents'. For the contents see the separate descriptions.
Villa Syracusa, Torquay.
Two photographs, one in 3/4 profile, and the other facing the camera, with the stamp of Annan Photographer, Glasgow on versos.
T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd (photographers)Lecture given in Tokyo and Kyoto Universities in early 1983.
On books recommended for reading in relation to medieval ethics, including Gass' Geschichte der Christlichen Ethik, a volume of lectures by Neander, and Bettmann's Geschichte der Christichen Seite. Gives opinion as to the merits of each. Recommends especially Histoire des auteurs ecclesiastiques in 22 vols. by Ceillier, and 'the new edition' of Havreau. Mentions also Winter's book on the Ethics of the School of Alexandria and Jourdain's book on St Thomas. In relation to Hartmann's Phenomenology, claims it to be 'rude and spare' in the treatment of medieval theory, and comments that Sidgwick's 'enemy' Guyau 'knows nothing about it.' Mentions that his inability to verify the titles of his suggestions is due to the fact that he is ill in bed at the time of writing
Undated. Dated by watermark.
Docketed in red pen on the first page: '8 Jan 622 Nina Hobhouse'.
Most material dated 1931.
10 letters. Item 2 includes a transcription of a letter from Oliver Cromwell to Thomas Hill 23 Dec. 1649 (Harleian MS 7053 ff. 153b)
Nos. 27-29, 31, 34-35, 38-39, 42, 53.