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
Name of creator
Repository
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 many… read 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)