Item 641 - Letters from E. B. Denison to Joseph Edleston

3 folded sheets

Found in Gibbins' copy of Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge by H. McLeod Innes, Cambridge, 1941, which had been owned by Alice Edleston.

Gift of John R. Gibbins, Nov. 1989.

Three letters from E. B. Denison, later known as Edmund Beckett, dated 7 May 1842, 10 Sept. 1869, and 17 Oct. 1869. In the first letter, which is incomplete, he mentions his article about Andrew Jukes in the Churchman, and retells a story he heard from [John] Lonsdale about two Trinity Fellows in the time of Porson, Spencer and [John] Higgs, and rhyming insults they employed against each other. The letter of 10 Sept. mentions the departure of Charles Vaughan from Doncaster, an Airian heresy [Sir George Airy] regarding misleading statements he has made as to the best places to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. He recommends his broker H. E. Tatham & Co.; suggests putting a spoke in the wheel of the lazy Fellows of Trinity, and describes the new Vicar of Doncaster, [Francis] Pigou.