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- 1831-85 (Creation)
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48 letters to W. H. Thompson dated 1831-1866, and 1 letter addressed to [John] Allen dated 24 Aug. 1840. Names mentioned in the accompanying calendar of the letters include Henry Alford; John Allen; Robert Leslie Ellis; Edward FitzGerald; Arthur Hallam; Walter Savage Landor; Samuel Laurence; Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton; Stephen Spring Rice; Sir Henry Taylor; Robert John Tennant; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Charles Tennyson [later Turner]; and William Wordsworth. Spedding also refers to his work on Francis Bacon.
With a further 35 letters to William Aldis Wright and William George Clark, dated 1862-1881. Letters to William George Clark date from 1862 to 1864 and relate to collations of Shakespeare's plays. Letters from 1881 to William Aldis Wright relate to Frederick James Furnivall, with copies of Spedding's letters to Furnivall, and one letter from Furnivall to Spedding dated 26 Feb. 1881. Accompanied by a mechanical copy of the Northumberland Manuscript.
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Accompanied by a selective calendar of the letters to Thompson in [William Aldis Wright's?] hand.
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- Thompson, William Hepworth (1810-1886), college head (Subject)
- Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar (Subject)
- Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet (Subject)
- Turner, Charles (1808-1879), poet (Subject)
- Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833), poet and essayist (Subject)
- Allen, John (1810-1886), Archdeacon of Salop (Subject)
- Alford, Henry (1810–1871) Dean of Canterbury and biblical scholar (Subject)
- Tennant, Robert John (1809–1842), teacher and clergyman of the Church of England (Subject)
- Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, author and politician (Subject)
- FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883), writer and translator (Subject)
- Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), poet (Subject)
- Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) author (Subject)
- Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886), knight, poet and public servant (Subject)
- Laurence, Samuel (1812–1884) portrait painter (Subject)
- Ellis, Robert Leslie (1817-1859), mathematician and classical scholar (Subject)
- Rice, Stephen Edmond Spring (1814–1865), civil servant and philanthropist (Subject)
- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), 1st Viscount St Alban, Lord Chancellor, politician and philosopher (Subject)
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), playwright and poet (Subject)
- Clark, William George (1821-1878), literary and classical scholar (Subject)
- Furnivall, Frederick James (1825-1910), textual scholar and editor (Subject)