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(Carbon copy of a typed original. The subscription and the date were added by hand.)

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CORRESPONDENCE OF DAWSON TURNER. Esq. F.R.S.

The correspondence contained in these 83 volumes consists of the letters received by Mr Dawson Turner between the years 1790 and 1851.

Mr Turner was originally entered at Pembroke College of which his uncle, Dr Joseph Turner, afterwards Dean of Norwich, was then Master, but after a year’s residence, owing to the illness of his father, James Turner, he left the University for the Banking house of Messrs Gurneys and Co, Great Yarmouth, in which his father was a partner.

Mr Turner became a Fellow of the Royal Society and of other learned societies. He corresponded with scientific men and foreign botanists from whom various letters will be found especially in the early volumes.

The collection is indexed throughout following the names of the writers.

Private letters from members of his family and others have been removed from the collection though they are referred to in the Index.

These volumes were presented to the Library of Trinity College in 1890 by Mr Turner’s last surviving daughter, Mrs Jacobson, widow of Dr Jacobson, formerly Bishop of Chester, and this statement is written by Mr Turner’s grandson,

R. H. Inglis Palgrave. 11 Feby. 1895.

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Belton. Gt Yarmouth.
11 Feby 1895.

My dear Wright,

I enclose the statement {1} now, I hope, in a complete form. Should you wish anything else to be said or any alteration made only let me know. The collection will supply curious bits of information to future historians—if they will work it over.—& I am much obliged to you for arranging so kindly that it should have an honourable resting place in your fine College Library.

I am glad you can give a good report of yourself this arctic weather.

Yours very truly
R H Inglis Palgrave

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{1} O.13.1, No. 4.

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Belton. | Gt Yarmouth.
14 Novr 1890.

My dear Wright,

I have heard from Mrs Jacobson who is very glad that her Fathers correspondence should rest within your Walls, & will willingly present it to the College.

The collection is at my home, here, I will have it properly packed & seen to, but as I have to be away next week for a few days on business it will have to wait for my return—But I will attend to it as soon as I can, & I will write you word again before it is sent off to Cambridge.

Yours very truly
R H Inglis Palgrave

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Belton. | Gt Yarmouth.
27 Sepr 1890.

My dear Wright,

You will remember my speaking to you here about the correspondence of my Grandfather the late Dawson Turner. He was in the habit of binding the letters addressed to him, & hence accumulated during a long & active life a considerable number of letters, some from persons of mark in their way, & curious also as illustrative of life & habits from, roughly 1790 to 1850. He was in early life, much devoted to botany, & there are among the letters a good many from botanists on the Continent which Joseph Hooker tells me illustrate the early progress of the Science. Afterwards Mr Turner directed more attention to archaeology—& there are letters on this subject also.

I have taken out of the volumes all the private letters, & those from members of his Family.—this however does not detract from the interest of those which remain.

My question to you was—Will your College Library give an acceptance permanently to these 50 to 60 Volumes. If you say—yes—I will ask Mrs Jacobson, who is the present owner to consent to this arrangement.

Mrs Jacobson is now an old Lady—& as I am constantly reminded of the miserable lapse of time—I shall be glad to settle this matter. Will you kindly assist me.

I am sorry we have not seen more of each other—or rather that I have not seen more of you this year—but I hope we shall do better in the future.

Yours very truly
R H Inglis Palgrave

Two letters concerning a book from William Aldis Wright's library.

Complete issue, pp. 421-452, with obituary on p. 441.

Relates to a MS sent to the British Museum for Moses Gaster.

Sends a corrected lecture list [not present].

Includes 30 letters addressed to William Aldis Wright and 23 letters addressed to William Whewell.

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.

A collection of materials, many of them associated with William Aldis Wright and acquired from different sources.

One letter (item 3), and a group of papers (items 6-27) belonged to fellow Shakespeare editor W. G. Clark. The cutting about Shakespeare (item 3a) may have been from his papers as well.

Another group was created by David Nichol Smith, who donated the material relating to his research for the entry on William Aldis Wright in the Dictionary of National Biography (items 28-37).

The last letter was written by Aldis Wright and was acquired by the Library separately.

The association of the other letters and cuttings in the collection (items 1, 2, 4, and 5) to William Aldis Wright, if any, is unclear.

Forgot to mention in her last letter [104/69] that Mr Aldis Wright was the other member of the original group making up the Philosophical Society [later the Grote Society]. States that her husband will write to her when he arrives home.

Is offering the portrait of Clerk Maxwell by Lowes Dickinson paid for by the subscribers to the Clerk Maxwell Memorial Fund, and asks if a descriptive plate should be attached to the frame, and what the wording should be.

Concerning the Pali manuscripts. Includes a letter to [Edward Byles] Cowell dated 12 March 1869.

Explains his delay in replying to Nora's letter [104/67]: has been away from home; also he has been looking without success for some reference to the Grote Society in old letters and papers. Refers to an enclosed letter [104/66?], which gives J. R. Mozley's recollections of the society. Believes that it commenced in 1861, or even earlier, and recalls that he was then a lecturer in Moral Sciences at St John's College, and had consulted Grote as to how he might make his lectures work in with Grote's. Grote suggested that it would be a good thing to have periodical meetings for discussion amongst those who were interested in philosophy.

The first meeting tok place in his [Mayor's] rooms, where Grote read an introductory paper. Thinks that the next meeting was in Grote's rooms, and states that they 'fell into the habit of going to dine with him at Trumpington' and having their discussion afterwards. Believes that Henry, Venn, Pearson, Aldis Wright and Somerset-West were the first members of the society.

Supposes that the dialogue [referred to in Nora's letter] arose out of a discussion, 'but took the form of papers interchanged between [Grote and Henry].' Quotes from his diaries of 1865 and 1866, referring to meetings and his dealings with other members, including Henry. Undertakes to write to her to let her know if he should find anything else that would be of interest to her. Adds that he believes that Henry was the one with whom Grote most enjoyed discussing philosophical questions.

2 Victoria St. S.W. - Letter conveying 5 autographs for the Trinity College collection (Sutherland, Turton, Godolphin, Manners, Fairbairn), [none present] and in another envelope 'a lot of multifarious papers which have no reference to Dr Whewell but may be of some interest to the College' [not present].

Concerning the Milton Concordance.

Describes a brick lined baptistery he saw at Ely when he was 18. Encloses David Stewart's letter to Mrs Thompson [not present].

Asks about M. Nicasius, mentioned in the preface to Roger Ascham's Scholemaster. Accompanied by 2 pp. notes in Wright's hand.

Encloses a translation of a hymn written by Hallgrímur Pétursson.