Item 158 - Letter from Rt. Hon. John Morley to Henry Sidgwick

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Add. MS c/94/158

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Letter from Rt. Hon. John Morley to Henry Sidgwick

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  • 6 Dec 1894 (Creation)

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Morley, John (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, politician
(1838-1923)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Reports that having just appointed a chairwoman at Dublin Castle, he now has to 'make a Professor of Greek at Cork.' Asks him what the Cambridge honours in the enclosed list [not included] amount to. Declares that '[a]t the same time you don't need a Porson for an Irish Queen's College.' States that there are 'one or two excellent men standing', but that he would like to appoint a Royal University man 'if decency should not happen to forbid.'

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