Ravensleigh, 33, The Avenue, Beckenham -- Some notes on William Aldis Wright.
Zonder titelA miscellaneous groups of notes on various classical subjects, with some printed material mixed in, including part of an issue of Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Vol. 11, number 1. Some of this material has been removed from books in Jackson's collection of books which may be found in the Library, as noted in the archival history section above.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Thanks him for his letter and his Études sur le "Philèbe, and offers a few comments.
Thanks him for his birthday wishes, and sends a carte-de-visite photograph of himself; shares news of his situation and his work, with a description of the sudden death of his wife in 1899, and a year later, his marriage to her cousin.
Berlin, W. Magdeburgerstr. 20. Thanks him for the Parmenides.
Chaucer Road, Cambridge. Asks for the title and date of a book, if he knows if 'Albert' knew Greek, and for a translation of a Greek phrase.
Sends two amusing bits of poetry.
Trin. Coll. Cambridge. Returns a proof with some comments, states that he does not think that Jourdain's statements should be trusted, though he admits that lately he has done little or nothing in the way of translations of Aristotle.
Fen Ditton, Cambridge. Comments on Strabo 643.
Trin. Coll. Camb. Writes with two more questions, about Timaeus, has written his comments about Phaedo already.
Nürnberg. Thanks him for the essay on Aristotle's Ethics and offers a few comments.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Thanks him for the copy of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist.
Trinity College Cambridge. Asks for a copy of his papers about Thomas Taylor.
74, rue Bonaparte. Sends a copy of his Études sur le "Philèbe and asks for his comments.
King's College, Cambridge. Asks for help with a passage in Aristotle's De Anima.
Girton College, Cambridge. Has a question about his lecture that morning: asks about the significance of fixed stars in Plato's Timaeus 42d.
Clark's Island, Plymouth. Describes the move to Clark's Island [Massachusetts]; discusses the newspaper coverage of the death of President Ulysses S. Grant and comments on his presidency; shares his admiration for H. A. J. Munro, who has just died; comments on both British and American political events of the day.
The work referred to on the label is J. O. Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, first published in 1847. The papers in Add. MS b. 74/5–6 may have been collected for the purpose of improving that work.
Trinity College. Encloses his Latin inscriptions for Prior and Sedley Taylor, noting his use of the nominative case as Sedley Taylor is not declinable and the debate over the declinability of Prior would "excite acrimonious controversy."
Down Farnborough, Kent. Discusses the difference between two genuses of barnacle, Chthamalus and Balanus and mentions specimens sent, and encloses a drawing of the two; has been going through Thompson's collection and finds it admirable. Comments on Thompson's book, does not like the separation of English and Latin text. Recommends a book by E. S. Dixon on poultry as it is very good and amusing. Is headed to Malvern to try a water cure.
A document dated 28 Aug. 1849 and sent on to Trinity dated 10 June 1850 lists five items donated to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College by Thomas Kidd, and encloses the original grant of the office of Master to Richard Bentley, with the letter from Thomas Thorpe to Kidd dated 8 Feb. 1830 by which he presented it to Thorpe. Some of the books donated carried annotations by Richard Porson.
Sends a list of engraved gems found in ancient tombs at different places in Cyprus and now in the Cesnola collection of the New York Museum of Art.
Offering his collected works to the College.
Relating to the gift of a portrait of Bishop Hacket to Trinity College Cambridge.