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Add. MS a/676
Title
Letters from J. M. E. McTaggart to A. F. B. Williams
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- 1889-1924 (Creation)
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2 boxes
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Gift from Basil Williams, Nov. 1938.
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Over 340 letters written over 35 years. Accompanied by a cutting from the Times dated 4/2/25 written by Basil Williams, describing McTaggart's fortnightly letters as "full of good talk about himself and his work, about Cambridge and Dickens and 18th-century gossip, about his friends' doings, and about the merits of Conservatives principles...."
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O.11.16