Item 3 - Letter from Edmund Brock to W. Aldis Wright

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Add. MS b/74/14/3

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Letter from Edmund Brock to W. Aldis Wright

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  • 8 Nov. 1871 (Creation)

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7 Cornwall Terrace, Colney Hatch, London, N.—Asks whether he has had an opportunity of comparing the transcript he (Brock) made from a Saxon text in a Cotton MS with the corresponding Trinity MS.

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7, Cornwall Terrace | Colney Hatch | London N.
8/11/71

Dear Sir,

Early in this year I sent a transcript of a few pages of Saxon from a Cotton MS. to Mr Skeat, and asked him to compare it with the Trinity MS. of the same {1}, and if the Trin. MS. were better, to get it copied for me. I have since understood from Mr S. that you were so kind as to offer to do it yourself. May I ask whether you have had an opportunity of attending to the matter? The old reference, which I found in Hickes {2}, is Class à dextra Ser. med. 5, fol. 44, the subject being a Saxon paraphrase of Cato’s Distichs with some additions. I believe Mr Skeat left my rough copy with you.

I am, dear Sir,
Yours sincerely,
E. Brock

W. Aldis Wright, Esq.

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{1} MS R.9.17.

{2} Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus (1705), vol. ii, p. 167.

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      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2022.

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