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Letter: London, to "My dear Hodgson"; [18--]-06-26

ALS. Lists dates when he will be able to come down to Gavel.

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Letter: Ambleside, to "My dear Mrs. Howard"; [18--]-09-05

ALS. Arranges a meeting saying that Mrs. Arnold "would like to come with us, but she is waiting here to receive our boy Dick, who is coming from Manchester."

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Letter: London, to "My dear Mr. Jordan" [?]

ALS. Sends "a report on the examination passed by the Choir boys of the Chapel Royal this year." Written on Education Dept. stationery.

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Letter: London, to Sir Franklin Lushington, 1823-1901; [18--]-05-01

ALS. "I could dine with you on Friday, if that quite suits you."

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Letter: Mudie's Lending Library; [18--]-08-14

AL. Written in the third person. Apparently to a lending library, asks that several books be delivered to him "next Saturday," as he is "going into the country for some weeks."

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Letter: Harrow, to the Rev. John Oakley, 1834-1890

ALS. Refers to Oakley's letter to the Daily News, which he agreed with. "The Birmingham people, and the common bulk of the Liberal party, now take up education, just as they left it alone so long as their doing so was convenient to the Protestant dissenters, without much concern for anything beyond the political and social capital to be made by their operations."

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Letter: London, to Sir William Pole, 1814-1900

ALS. States that he was a supporter of Pole's nephew who has been elected, and goes on to write of his pleasure in seeing Pole's handwriting once again. Writes that he is now living in Cobham, Surrey.

Scope and Contents Letter: Cobham, Surrey, to Charles SharpALS. Writes to the Secretary of the Liverpool Institute, declining an invitation to speak. He is engaged elsewhere and "the Education Department . . . does not at all like its inspectors to make speeches." He is going to Ipswich "only because I want to see whether the working men cannot be interested in improving middle-class education, since the middle class itself is so indifferent on the subject." Written on Education Dept....

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Letter: London, to "Dear Sir"

ALS. Requests that a line in his article be changed from "the glowing countenance of Sir Wm. Harcourt" to "the genial countenance of Sir Wm. Harcourt."

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Letter: London, to Mrs. Smetham

ALS. To the wife of James Smetham: "I feel sure I have not paid for those pretty pictures of your husband's to which I subscribed." Asks her for address and post office to which his order should be made payable. Written on Education Dept. stationery.