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Letter: London, to William Spottiswoode, 1825-1883; [18--]-02-06

ALS. "Forster and Grant Duff would like to hear me - I have given away my tickets, and besides don't you think that both of them are cases for the reserved seats." Asks for more tickets and writes that "I am rather relieved that you and your wife will not be there to enjoy my confusion."

Scope and Contents Letter: Fox How, to Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815-1881ALS. Writes about the French translation of his Literature and Dogma and the good it may do. "The profound natural truth which lies in Christianity, independent of all the glosses which Church and theologians have put upon it, is the thing to insist on." Speaks of a letter from "a young Macaulay to the effect that he and many others would take service in a society for the promotion of goodness" but without having to assent to...

Scope and Contents Letter: Cobham, to Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815-1881ALS. Writes to the Dean of Westminster Abbey an account of his meeting with Cardinal Newman. "Newman stood in costume . . . supported by a chaplain and by the Duke of Norfolk. Devotees, chiefly women, kept pressing up to him." He was introduced by Lady Portsmouth: "I made the most deferential of bows, he took my hand in both of his and held it . . . nothing of any interest passed, but I was glad to have spoken to him . . . The...

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Letter: Cobham, to Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815-1881; [18--]-01-27

ALS. Declines Stanley's dinner invitation, saying "I must not abandon more than I can help a circle which is rather low-spirited since Dick's departure."

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Letter: Cobham, to Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815-1881

ALS. Encloses "the lines which I think will suit the monument over divinum illum senem." Says the lines to be inscribed on the Wordsworth Memorial in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey are from a fragment of the Recluse, printed in the preface to the Excursion. Nine-line enclosure, in Arnold's hand, begins: "Paradise, and groves" and ends "A simple produce of the common day."

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Letter: London, to Mrs. Thomson

Writing the wife of William Thomson, the Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, Arnold tells her not to expect him for lunch "until I actually arrive." If he cannot make it to lunch, he hopes to see her after his lecture. Written on Education Dept. stationery.

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Letter: Cobham, Surrey, to Francis Gledstanes Waugh, London

ALS. "Many thanks for the promised book . . . from your description, it seems to me that your book will be a useful one."

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Letter: London, to the Rev. James Went

ALS. States his engagements are such that he cannot come and read a paper at Leicester.

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Letter: London, to John H. Whitaker, Manchester

AL. Written in the third person: "Mr. Arnold . . . regrets that he cannot send . . . an autograph of [his father] Dr. Arnold, as all of Dr. Arnold's handwriting in the possession of his family which it was possible to part with has already been given away."

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Letter: London, to William White, 1831 or 1832-1890, London

ALS. "Swedenborg has long been an object of interest to me, and from time to time I have dipped into his works, though these, I confess, have never quite answered to the impression the man himself, and his work, make upon me. But his life I shall read with great interest."