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Sender: Palmer, Leonard Robert

Recipient: Davison, John Armstrong

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Apr [193-]

Location: SC MS 455/40.1

Note: Points on early Greek dialects. MS. 2 ff.

Sender: Beattie, A.J., Professor

Recipient: Davison, John Armstrong

Letters: 10

Date(s): 14 Oct 1958 - 24 Jun 1959

Location: SC MS 455/39

Note: On the decipherment of the Linear B script. Sender is of the Department of Greek, University of Edinburgh.

Sender: Crossland, R.A., Professor

Recipient: Davison, John Armstrong

Letters: 1

Date(s): 2 Apr 1959

Location: SC MS 455/39

Note: On the decipherment of the Linear B script. Sender is of the Department of Greek, University of Sheffield.

Sender: Davison, John Armstrong

Recipient: Beattie, A.J., Professor

Letters: 6

Date(s): 19 May 1958 - 14 Apr 1959

Location: SC MS 455/39

Note: Copy letters. On the decipherment of the Linear B script. Recipient is of the Department of Greek, University of Edinburgh.

Sender: Beattie, A.J., Professor

Recipient: Chadwick, John

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Nov 1958

Location: SC MS 455/39

Note: Copy letter. On the decipherment of the Linear B script. Sender is of the Department of Greek, University of Edinburgh.

Sender: Blegen, Carl. W.

Recipient: Beattie, A.J., Professor

Letters: 1

Date(s): 20 Dec 1958

Location: SC MS 455/39

Note: Copy letter. On the decipherment of the Linear B script. Recipient is of the Department of Greek, University of Edinburgh.


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Alma-Tadema, Sir Laurence to Stoker, Bram

Alma-Tadema, Sir Laurence

[9 Jul 1881] - 21 Jan 1908

Theatre tickets; contribution; ticket for celebrated Dutch writer, Vosmar; regrets for accident to Irving's son at Belfast; asks for Greek chair for performance at Bedford College; Irving in "The Medi...

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Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet

Recipient: Barker, Revd Thomas

Letters: 13

Date(s): 20 May 1811 - 28 May 1867

Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.4, 1.77, 1.80-81, 1.83,

1.114-117, 1.123, 1.133-135

Note: 1) On Benjamin West's painting of Christ. 4 pp. 2) On Epictetus. 4 pp. 3) On Greek quotations. 4 pp. 4) On organs. Incomplete, wanting end of letter. 4 pp. 5) Incomplete, wanting beginning and end. 2 pp. 6) Anecdotes about France in 1814. 5 pp. 7) On the anonymous "Ecce

Homo". 4 pp. 8) On nightingales, wolves in France, and opera. 5 pp. 9) On music, Greek, and wolves. 4 pp. 10) On the burning of Lord Wake's castle at Cottingham, 1541. 3 pp. 11) About Macaulay on Cowper, and spontaneous generation. 4 pp. 12) About his father, fearlessness, and family news. 4 pp. 13) About the visit of the Sultan of Turkey, and

Mohammedans. 4 pp. Recipient is brother-in-law of sender.

Sender: Pope, Alexander

Recipient: Broome, William

Letters: 1

Date(s): 5 Nov [postmark 1715]

Location: BC MS Lt.q 14 Safe

Note: Autograph, signature defective. To Bromme "at Sturston, near Diss/ By Diss Bay in/ Norfolke". Written Saturday. Is sending first volume of Pope's version of Homer, with the Greek commentary of Eustathius for recipient to translate. Has read Duport's "Gnomologia Homerica" (postscript, which repeats mailing information about Eustathius). Foot of pp. mutilated in opening, also a few words from beginning of p.1. Sotheby's sale 23 June 1958, Lot 140; part of property of E.C. Wingfield-Stratford, Esq. Quarto, 4 pp. including address.

Sender: Symonds, John Addington

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 67

Date(s): 7 Aug 1875 - 10 Jan 1893

Location: BC Gosse correspondence

Note: An extremely interesting series of correspondence relating to Symonds' works - "The Renaissance in Italy", "Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti" and his translations. Symonds expresses his opinion of some contemporary writers, and his appreciation of Gosse's "Poems". Admires Gosse's essay on Herrick; (14 January 1876) acknowledges receipt of Gosse's "King Erik"; sends two poems illustrating Greek "philia"; replies to comments on the poems; asks Gosse if he would write the review of "Renaissance in Italy" for the "Quarterly Review"; delight that Gosse enjoys the "Revival of Learning"; (5 April 1877) ordered to Cannes for his health; shows concern that there is something wrong between Gosse and himself; offers explanation as to the arrangements for selling his books; review of "Renaissance in Italy"; thanks for gift of "Lotychius", mention of illness; (1 February 1878) will try an English translation of a poem on Antinous, Gosse's attempts to write a drama on Antinous; (7 April 1879) compliments
Gosse on his "Northern Studies"; explains his position in an article written in the "Fortnightly" which had offended Gosse; (18 November 1879) pleased with Gosse's poetry and discusses his style; misunderstanding growing out of "Fortnightly" article; (11 October 1884) announces the publication of a work on Goliardic poetry ["Wine, Women, and Song"]; compliments Gosse on his attainment of Harvard Professorship and the Lowell Lectureship; (8 November 1884) acknowledges with thanks Gosse's review of "Wine, Women, and Song"; proposes that Gosse do a work on Sidney and that Symonds would do one on Jonson for "English men of Letters"; acknowledges Gosse's reply to the "Quarterly Review" criticism of his observations on the place of criticism; (16 December 1884) attack on Symonds and Gosse in the Pall Mall Gazette by Churton Collins; (28 February 1890) observations on the genesis of ideas in his "A Problem in Greek Ethics"; discusses the collection of poems, "The Taming of Chimaere", on Gosse's
place in literature; (23 Novmber 1890) suggests that Gosse attempt to publish some translations from poems of Heine; (18 September 1891) reports on "MA B" ["Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti"]; (10 January 1893) announces third edition of "Greek Poets", second edition of "Michelangelo", a memograph on "Walt Whitman" a new version of the "Decameron". Many of the letters mention typographical details in the published works of the two correspondents, and Symonds frequently reports on his state of health and his travels.

Sender: Baring, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 50

Date(s): 29 Jul 1909 - 6 Jun 1916

Location: BC Gosse correspondence

Note: On translating Greek poetry; address of book-seller; another book-seller; declining an invitation; accepting an invitation; Banbury's Bill on Dogs; requesting the signature of Gosse; books for a Classical Library; correct title of a book; new books to buy; apropos of Faguet; discussion of points in his new book; on Gosse's "17th Century Studies"; who was the author of the "Life of Peterborough"; thanks for the information; concerning a crisis in the House of Lords; about Queen Alexandra's letter; Cromer's niece has written to Russia; thanks for a new book; request to bring his wife with him to a meeting; meeting against the parliamentary vote to women; accompanying letter; French works on classical subjects; and others; concerning a line of Dante; more books; copy of Suidas; congratulations on a recent honour; more books to buy; a copy of Ennius, and Bury's "History of the Eastern Roman Empire; "Concordance of Dante" as distinguished from a concordance of the "Commedia"; a new book he has
bought; finally has gotten the Dante concordance he requires; concerning book-plates; Gosse's new book; notes on De Vogue's book; and untraced quotation; Gosse settles the point; prose vs poetry; lines from Martial; enclosing an imitation of Wordsworth; more news about the quotation; enclosing a limerick; accepting an invitation to lunch; concerning a Lady Dorothy; a Japanese translation for the House of Lords Library; invitation to lunch; expecting him; enclosing a paper; articles in "The Spectator"; discussion of Germany and France; two lines to be identified; Gosse's criticism of mis-statements in Strachey's "Eminent Victorians"; many thanks for a letter on a subject of mutual interest; regrets over refusing a luncheon invitation.

Sender: Meecham, Henry George

Recipient: Ogden, James Robert

Letters: 3

Date(s): 17 Apr 1934 - 7 Oct 1935

Location: Pasted into copies of (a) Meecham's "The Oldest Version of the Bible", 1932 (two letters), and (b) Meecham's "The Letter of Aristeas", 1935 (1 letter), shelved at Special Collections Greek N-1.2 BIB and Greek N-1.2 ARI.