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MISCELLANY – SCHOLARSHIP, SCIENCE and RELIGION

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MISCELLANY – SCHOLARSHIP, SCIENCE and RELIGION

Manuscript miscellany, comprising letters etc., by Jeremy Bentham, Charles Babbage, Sir John Sinclair (to the playwright Sheridan, sending a copy of his History of the Revenue), Anna Gurney, Thomas Phillipps, William Bennet as Bishop of Cloyne (long letter about Roman Berkshire, 1803), the first Earl of Macclesfield (recommending in a letter of 1722 that an ecclesiastic be granted a higher Cambridge degree: "some People obstruct him by an idle story, of ye Ringers of his parish upon some rejoycing day, drinking Ale & eating Beef at ye Communion table. The story is false"), Andrew Coltee Ducarel (genealogical jottings concerning the ancestors of Archbishop Hutton who had appointed him Librarian at Lambeth), Samuel Butler of Shrewsbury School, Remy de Gourmont, Leone Levi, Abraham Hume, Samuel Smiles, the book collector Second Earl Spencer (haggling with Longman's over purchases of a Boethius and Antoninus, 1816), the phrenologist George Combe, Agnes Stickland (busy on her life of MQS), Olinthus Gregory, George Grote, William Bingley, Thomas Mitchell (reminiscing about Christ's Hospital which he had attended with Leigh Hunt – "I still remember Christ's. I have not forgotten Swipes, & even in my dreams I occasionally think of the monster Bowyer"), Rajendralal Mitra ("...You will be surprised to hear that the literary intercourse between the three presidencies of India is so imperfect that it is rarely that we come to know of the doings of our neighbours. The first intimation of the Madras edition of the Kamanduhiya Niti came to me from England in Trubner's Circular. I have written for it as also for a copy of the Vikramarka Charita..."), E.B. Pusey ("...Surely then, since Hosea was a prophet of Israel and speaking to Israel, it is natural to look for Mizpah within the known bounds of Israel..."), and others (quantity)

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