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O./13.21/Index · Partie · early 19th c.
Fait partie de Manuscripts in Wren Class O

(This list contains the correspondents’ names in alphabetical order, and the dates of their letters. It is in two parts, each headed ‘Contents | 1821’, the first part containing names beginning with the letters from A to K, the second names beginning with the letters from L to Y. On the back of the preceding flyleaf is the following note: ‘The Index in this Volume comprehends all the Letters of the year 1821, &, consequently, not those alone which are bound in the present Volume, but equally those in the following one.’)

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Letter from Sir William Gell to Robert Pemberton Milnes
Letter from Sir William Gell to Robert Pemberton Milnes
HOUG/36/71 · Pièce · [Nov/Dec. 1831?]
Fait partie de Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Naples. - Amused by Milnes' examples of Kestner's English, and adds his own; indebtedness to Torlonias; Milnes' prospects. Drove to Pozzuoli with Sir Walter Scott today; Scott confessed that he had reviewed a work on bridges without any knowledge of the subject; Gell's work on Troy was once badly reviewed by Sir William Drummond owing to a misunderstanding about an invitation. Scott was lively and in tolerable health; his speech little changed; 'I remember when the Lay [of the Last Minstrel] first came out he read it at the Priory, L[ord] Abercorn's, & the deuce a word did those of the company who were born south of Trent understand of it'. Milnes should enjoy more worldly pursuits while he has the chance. [Halley's] comet not expected to threaten disaster as it was largely transparent on its last appearance; recounts Scott's anecdote about Mrs __ and the 'supernatural' apparition of Dr Gordon. Odd behaviour of the Heydebrecks makes them hard to assist; Lord Hertford's recommendations for avoiding political fights when entertaining; reform and revolution in England; Rome; would like to force some good from Mezzofante.

Endorsed by Luigi Chiaveri.