Item 27 - Letter from Joseph Williams Blakesley to William Hepworth Thompson

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Add. MS a/243/27

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Letter from Joseph Williams Blakesley to William Hepworth Thompson

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  • 23 Nov. 1840 (Creation)

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Blakesley, Joseph Williams (1808-1885), Dean of Lincoln
(1808-1885)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College - election for the High Stewardship of Cambridge University, Grote appointed Father of the College. wishes to marry and resign his fellowship but does not hold out hope of a living and finds the idea of employment at a school distasteful, description of his fiancée [Margaret Wilson Holmes] and her close family, request of Thompson to take the first division of his students in Thucydides, installing a water closet

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