Item 761 - Letter from J. E. B. Mayor to J. B. Mayor

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/761

Title

Letter from J. E. B. Mayor to J. B. Mayor

Date(s)

  • c. 1875 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 folded sheet

Context area

Archival history

This letter was purchased in 2019 from Richard Ford Ltd, dealers in books, printed ephemera, and manuscripts. There is no indication of the letter's intervening provenance.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Richard Ford Ltd.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Began transcribing his notes on Cicero. Many merely reference Madvig's notes. Has Schömann's opuscula and will bring next time he is in town. Picked up two German illustrated books for Joseph's children. Prefers Frölich and Pletsch's works to manyread more

Access points

Dates of creation revision deletion

This description was created by I. David in 2025.

Sources

1871 and 1882 Censuses via Ancestry (online) and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Augustus Samuel Wilkins (online)