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Add. MS a/244/122
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Letter from William Hepworth Thompson to J. W. Blakesley
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- 11 Dec. 1833 (Creation)
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Cambridge - recovered from illness, [James] Spedding failed [Fellowship examination], College tutors, [Apostles] "grievously thinned", [John] Sterling's son may be apostolic, Spedding taking drawing lessons, [Richard Chenevix] Trench has preached in W. B. Donne's area, death of Arthur Hallam, Tennyson depressed, left some poems with him, George Farish "professes to read law and practices ... the smoking of cigars", Christopher Wordsworth full of modern Greek literature
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- Thompson, William Hepworth (1810-1886), college head (Subject)
- Spedding, James (1808-1881), literary editor and biographer (Subject)
- Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet (Subject)
- Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833), poet and essayist (Subject)
- Trench, Richard Chenevix (1807-1886) Archbishop of Dublin (Subject)
- Wordsworth, Christopher (1807-1885), Bishop of Lincoln (Subject)
- Cambridge Conversazione Society (Subject)
- Farish, George (c 1810-1836) barrister (Subject)