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

2 sheets

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