Item 23 - Letter from Thomas Thorpe to Thomas Kidd

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Letter from Thomas Thorpe to Thomas Kidd

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  • 1830-1850 (Creation)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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A document dated 28 Aug. 1849 and sent on to Trinity dated 10 June 1850 lists five items donated to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College by Thomas Kidd, and encloses the original grant of the office of Master to Richard Bentley, with the letter from Thomas Thorpe to Kidd dated 8 Feb. 1830 by which he presented it to Thorpe. Some of the books donated carried annotations by Richard Porson.

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