Showing 62708 results

Two letters from H. L. Greenfield to Dr Parry, and one letter from Dorothea Pertz to Dr Parry about an oil sketch by Miss Margaret Bernardine Hall, with a description of the circumstances of its creation.

Hagley - returning a book. enjoyed work by [George Augustus?] Selwyn, visit to Scotland, to be made Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire

(Cambridge.)—Discusses the word ‘Cipres’.

(Undated. Postmarked at Cambridge on 3 June 1885.)

—————

Transcript

Cipres {1}: I read a few notes on it lately, & tried to make it = crespe. On the whole, I failed. I now conclude, with you, that it means “stuff of Cyprus”. The best is, it is far older than you (or I) have said. For it is in P. Plowman all the while! see the glossary: where Tartarina = stuff of Tartary. The line in P. Pl. is not in Wright’s edition.

N.B. I do not think I have brought you an extra copy of last part of P. Pl. yet. But I will do so {2}.

Yrs
W W Skeat

[Direction:] W. Aldis Wright Esq: | Trinity College | Cambridge

—————

Postmarked at Cambridge on 3 July 1885.

{1} Cf. Twelfth Night, III. i. 123.

{2} This may be Trinity College Library, 208.c.88.123, vol. 2.

Notes on texts of Aristophanes' plays, with two letters from Francesco Palermo dated 1867 tipped in at front.

With a later note at top indicating that it accompanied a copy of Carrière's De psalterio Salominis disquisitionem historitico-criticam, 1870.

Letter of 5 Jan [1866] expresses sympathy on the fire at Crewe Hall; after Emily Curzon's message there is a note from her husband, Hon. Robert Curzon.

Seeking funds for excavation of the basilica of San Clemente, Rome.