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Letter from B. F. Westcott to G. M. Humphry
Letter from B. F. Westcott to G. M. Humphry
O./10a.45/f. 9v · Part · 22(?) Mar. 1873
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

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Trinity College | Cambridge
March 22d {1} | '73

Dear Professor Humphry,

Let me thank you for the honour which you have done to my office in proposing to me to be a member of the Committee for preparing a memorial to Professor Sedgwick {2}. I shall be happy to render any assistance in my power to carrying out the object proposed.

Yrs vy truly {3}
B F Westcott

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{1} The second figure is indistinct.

{2} Adam Sedgwick had died on 27 January.

{3} This line is indistinct.
Untitled verses. Author unknown
Crewe MS/10/f. 9r · Part · [18th c.]
Part of Crewe Manuscripts

First line: ‘Says Sir John to his Spouse as together they Sat’.

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Says S[i]r John to his Spouse as together they Sat
Shall we first go to Supper, or else you know what
With an Innocent smile, reply’d the good Lady
My D[ea]r what you please, but Supper’s not ready
Inscription by Johann Heinrich Barth
Crewe MS/20/f. 9r · Part · 26 June 1708
Part of Crewe Manuscripts

‘Se nosse et corrigere, veraque fide et sancta vita Deo jungi, quotidiana nostra sit exercitatio.’ ‘Symb. C.E.R.T.A.N.D.U.M.’ Dated at Jena. Addressed to Dietrich.
Letter from Earl Waldegrave to G. M. or A. P. Humphry
Letter from Earl Waldegrave to G. M. or A. P. Humphry
O./10a.45/f. 9r · Part · 26 Apr. 1873
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

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50 Wilton Crescent {1}
Saturday | April 26' {2}

My dear Humphry

Thanks for the lunch we will appear at 2.pm. Certainly enter me for scratch fours please. I am glad I have hit off something. I must come and look at the Parade also on Monday. If you have not yet entered for Middlesex Assoc' Meeting don't till I have seen you.

In Haste
Yrs very truly
Waldegrave

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Black-edged paper.

{1} Waldegrave's London residence.

{2} '1873' has been added in pencil.
Inscription by Georg Möbius
Crewe MS/20/f. 99r · Part · 30 Mar. 1670
Part of Crewe Manuscripts

‘Haud facile Capitur à diabalo [sic], qui bono vacat exercitio.’ (St Jerome.) Probably written at Leipzig. The writer’s title is ‘SS. Theol[ogiæ] Doct[or] et Prof[essor] Publ[icus] in Acad[emia] Lips[iensi] Canonicus Cizens[is]’. Addressed to [Balthasar Friedrich] Saltzmann, assessor of the faculty of philosophy in the University of Leipzig.
Inscriptions by (i) Christian Benedikt Michaelis, 23 July 1741, and (ii) Gotthilf August Francke, 12 Oct. 1740
Crewe MS/20/f. 98r · Part · 23 July 1741
Part of Crewe Manuscripts

Francke, 12 Oct. 1740.
Two inscriptions on one slip, (i) on the recto, (ii) on the verso. (i) ‘Wir wird ein Jüngling seinen Weg unsträflich gehen? | Wenn er sich hält nach deinen Worten.’ (Psalms, cxix. 9.) Dated at Halle. (ii) ‘Ἰεσους Χριστὸς χθὲς [sic] καὶ σήμερον ὁ ἀυτὸς καὶ είς τοὺς ἀιῶνας.’ (Hebrews, xiii. 8.) Dated at Halle.
Inscription by Johann Gerhard Meuschen
Crewe MS/20/f. 96r · Part · 21 Oct. 1711
Part of Crewe Manuscripts

‘Ἐνὸς ἔστι Χρεία.’ (Luke, x. 42.) ‘Unum hoc necessarium sedulo urgendum.’ Dated at The Hague. Addressed to [Elias] Silberrad. Numbered 221. A note has been added recording Meuschen’s later appointment to positions at Hanau.