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
Includes:
CB/172/1/19/2-3: Notes by John Fryer Thomas on education system at Madras University, [Jan./Feb. 1845?]
CB/172/1/21/3: Letter from Arthur Joseph Street to John Griffiths, 23 Mar. 1845
CB/172/1/30/2-4: Letter from Ann Elizabeth Philips to Caroline Griffiths, 2 Sept. [1869]
CB/172/1/33/3: Letter from Ann Elizabeth Philips to her brother-in-law John Griffiths, 9 Dec. [1870]
Has a copy of CJM's review of Blomfield's Prometheus but not the 'British Critic'
55, Regent's Quadrant. Sent to Richard Monckton Milnes at 26 Pall Mall. With illustrations.
Sent to Milnes at Casa Ricasoli, S[ancta] Trinità, Florence, 'kindly conveyed by Honble Mr Noel'. -
At the back of the volume are verses and a Latin inscription for a portrait of Charles John Ellicott.
Printed Gaisford Prize: Greek Theocritean Verse by John Arthur Godley, 1869; Gaisford Prize, Greek Prose 1907, Herodotus at the Zoo by John Davidson Beazley; Prolusiones Academicae, or Exercises which having obtained prizes in the University of Cambridge will be recited in the Senate-House on 11 June 1932, and Sirenarum Carmen Ulixi Cantatum, a Poem which obtained the Montagu Butler Prize 1952 by Anthony Theodore Combridge; _A Latin Epigram which obtained Sir William Browne's Medal 1952 by Anthony John Leslie Lloyd; Samson and Delilah, a Poem which obtained Sir William Browne's Medal for Latin Verse 1952 by Michael Christopher Stokes; and Translation into Greek Verse which obtained The Porson Prize 1952 by William Geoffrey Arnott.
birth of a child to Captain Sarmon: Gayton
Including bills & references to Richard Monckton Milnes’s personal collections of books and MSS (except erotica, for which see DF/2).
Including response to Richard Monckton Milnes’s Letter to Lord Lansdowne (pub. 1849) on the events of 1848
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.
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.
Reports, minutes, correspondence etc.
Letter of 16 Jan. 1840 (Item 12) written on the verso of a 3 pp. leaflet, "Proposed Church in New Town, in the Parish of St Andrew the Less, Cambridge".