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- 1870-1884 (Creation)
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1 box.
354 items: letters, printed letters, telegram, obituary, committee members lists, newspapers, notes and minutes.
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Correspondence, notes, and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Some letters addressed to the Dean of Westminster, A. P. Stanley; to Canon Selwyn, and to others. Includes letters from: Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's; G. C. M. Douglas; E. H. Browne, Bishop of Ely then of Winchester; Frederick Field; John Dury Geden; A. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff; Hormuzd Rassam; William Selwyn; J. Troutbeck; Duncan H. Weir, James Cartmell; Bartholomew Price; Philip Schaff. Several copies/drafts of letters by W. Aldis Wright to others. Much material regarding the relationship between the British and American Revision Committees.
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An undated handwritten list, found in the box, has been scanned and attached to this record as a digital object. Please note that, while some errors have been detected and corrected, others may remain.
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Other material relating to W. Aldis Wright's work on the Revised Version is in Add.Ms.b.62, 65-66.
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- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (1815-1881), Dean of Westminster (Subject)
- Selwyn, William (1806-1875), Church of England clergyman (Subject)
- Thirlwall, Newell Connop (1797–1875) bishop of St David's, historian (Subject)
- Douglas, George Cunningham Monteith (1826-1904) clergyman and Hebrew scholar (Subject)
- Browne, Edward Harold (1811-1891), Bishop of Winchester (Subject)
- Field, Frederick (1801-1885), patristics scholar (Subject)
- Geden, John Dury (1822–1886) Wesleyan minister and Hebrew scholar (Subject)
- Ollivant, Alfred (1798–1882), bishop of Llandaff (Subject)
- Rassam, Hormuzd (1826-1910) archaeologist, Assyriologist, and diplomat (Subject)
- Troutbeck, John (1832-1899) clergyman, translator and musicologist (Subject)
- Weir, Duncan Harkness (1822-1876) Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages (Subject)
- Cartmell, James (1810-1887) Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (Subject)
- Price, Bartholomew (1818-1898) master of Pembroke College Oxford (Subject)
- Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) theologian and ecclesiastical historian (Subject)