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- c 1871-1912 (Creation)
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1 box.
295 items (letters, notes, news clippings, minutes, printed material such as proofs, specimen pages, reports, instructions and agreements).
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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. Includes correspondence from C. F. Clay, William F. Moulton, Bartholomew Price, T. H. Stokoe, Richard Wright, J. Troutbeck and others, along with several copies/drafts of letters by W. Aldis Wright. Notes by T. K. Cheyne, George Chawner, John Birrell, D. H. Weir and others. Includes material on use by others of the Revised Version, such as a request from [Charles Goldschmidt?] Montefiore, and on the disposition of surplus money given to the Old and New Testament Revision Companies [see also Add.MS.b.65].
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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.63-65.
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- Clay, Charles John (1827-1905), publisher (Subject)
- Moulton, William Fiddian (1835-1898), biblical scholar (Subject)
- Price, Bartholomew (1818-1898) master of Pembroke College Oxford (Subject)
- Stokoe, Thomas Henry (1833-1903) clergyman, headmaster and author (Subject)
- Troutbeck, John (1832-1899) clergyman, translator and musicologist (Subject)
- Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (1841–1915) biblical scholar (Subject)
- Chawner, George (1854-1914) classical scholar, librarian of Kings College Cambridge (Subject)
- Birrell, John (1836 - 1901) clergyman and Professor of Oriental Languages (Subject)
- Weir, Duncan Harkness (1822-1876) Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages (Subject)
- Montefiore, Claude Joseph Goldsmid- (1858-1938) Jewish Biblical scholar and philanthropist (Subject)