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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. Algernon Charles Swinburne collection, 1839-1971 (bulk 1860-1930).

Title: Algernon Charles Swinburne collection, 1839-1971 (bulk 1860-1930).

The collection documents Swinburne's literary affairs and friendships, plus critical reactions to the poet. It consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, artworks, and printed material produced by Swinburne, his friends and associates, and present-day scholars. Over 200 pieces of holograph correspondence and manuscript material, over half of which is by Swinburne, are included. Also prominent is material by Theodore Watts-Dunton, Swinburne's friend and legal advisor.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (8 manuscript boxes and 2 portfolios)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, [n.d. ca. 1880?] "Tuesday".

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, [n.d. ca. 1880?] "Tuesday".

Mentioning his classes, asking him if he has a copy of the next set of class questions and if he would rather have the Optionals or the exercises, and concerning the examination on the 3rd.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Tollemache, Lionel Arthur, 1838-1919. Letter and postal card written and signed for him by "F. S." : Hastings, to W.A. Knight, 1895 May 7 and 17.

Title: Letter and postal card written and signed for him by "F. S." : Hastings, to W.A. Knight, 1895 May 7 and 17.

Concerning the death of Professor Nichol.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (4 p.) ; (8vo and 16mo)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, [n.d.; ca. late 1880?].

Title: Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, [n.d.; ca. late 1880?].

Concerning university matters, mentioning various exercises and the work he needs to complete before the year's end.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Dec. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Dec. 9.

Saying his wife's condition, though improved, is further endangered by her sister's death from the same illness, which they are trying to conceal.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893. Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1878 Oct.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1878 Oct.

Praising his Life of Byron and commenting on it in detail, discussing the difficulties in writing a life of a poet, and mentioning Sally Walker.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. Autograph letter signed : the Pines, to John Nichol, 1892 July 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : the Pines, to John Nichol, 1892 July 24.

Praising his "apologia" and saying he finds him more "generous -- & partial -- than just" with regard to Byron.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Lushington, Edmund Law, 1811-1893. Autograph letter signed : Park House, Maidstone, to Nichol, 1892 Sept. 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Park House, Maidstone, to Nichol, 1892 Sept. 4.

Thanking him for the present of a book (apparently by N. and on Carlyle), praising his criticism, and mentioning Froude.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1880 May 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1880 May 6.

Thanking him for his help, saying he will "take no rest until I finish Byron if not also Burns," and saying he was labeled as "radical" in the last Blackwood's.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894,. Autograph letters signed from John Nichol to Swinburne [manuscript], 1880-1881.

Title: Autograph letters signed from John Nichol to Swinburne [manuscript], 1880-1881.

Includes a copy of a letter which he sent to Furnivall. Also, a letter to the editor of the Athenaeum, [Norman MacColl].

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. Autograph letter signed : Putney, to John Nichol, 1892 July 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Putney, to John Nichol, 1892 July 24.

Concerning the latter's book on Carlyle.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph postcard signed : [London], to W.A. Knight, [1894 Jan. 10].

Title: Autograph postcard signed : [London], to W.A. Knight, [1894 Jan. 10].

Writing "Finis Angeli 8 pm N.I don't want to live any longer."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Letter [18]76 Jun. 20, The College [Glasgow] to [A.C.] Swinburne [n.p.].

Title: Letter [18]76 Jun. 20, The College [Glasgow] to [A.C.] Swinburne [n.p.].

Concerns a suit brought by Robert Buchanan against Peter Taylor for publishing in the Examiner on December 11, 1875, a pseudonymous article (by Swinburne), "The devil's due."

ArchivalResource: [4] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

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Lang, Cecil Y. Cecil Lang papers and autograph collection [manuscript], 1866-1982.

Title: Cecil Lang papers and autograph collection [manuscript], 1866-1982.

The collection contains letters and autographs of Victorian literay figures; personal and professional correspondence; and miscellaneous papers. Letters and autographs of prominent Victorian literary figures collected by Lang, include, particularly, letters of Matthew Arnold, A. H. Clough, William Rossetti on a Swinburne parody, Charles A. Swinburne on his and Byron's portrayal of Marino Faliero,and Thomas Woolner. Letters from John Nichol to Algernon C. Swinburne discuss a feud with Robert Buchanan. There are also letters or autographs of [Noah?] Brooks, William Allen Butler, Charles Calvert (mentioning producing Henry VIII), Dinah M. Craik, David Gray, Jean Ingelow, and Martin F. Tupper. The collection also contains "The posthumous poetry of Matthew Arnold," a talk given at Oxford by Lang on the Arnold papers in the National Archives of Canada. Letters from Harold Bloom to Lang, 1965 -1968, discuss his colleagues at Yale, academic career, writing, and health. Letters from George P. Elliott and Mary Emma Jeffress Eliott convey personal news with references to the English Dept. and Syracuse University including a sexism case against the English Dept.

ArchivalResource: 95 (circa) items.

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Oct. 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Oct. 22.

Concerning kind letters Martineau has sent him, mentioning the lecture series he will give and enclosing the prospectus, and saying their only chance of success is that Lady Mary Glyn has taken an interest in them.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Craigmore, Rothesay, to W.A. Knight, 1881 Apr. 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Craigmore, Rothesay, to W.A. Knight, 1881 Apr. 8.

Thanking him for an "encouraging" letter, saying the "Academy" has "never even admitted the existence of my Byron" and the "universal attack" he has been subjected to, and hoping to meet Knight.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to John Nichol, [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to John Nichol, [n.d.].

Praising a poem Nichol had sent him, saying there would be no use in Nichol's standing for the Logic Chair because he is not known to Oxford, and inviting him to visit.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Strathmore Gardens, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Aug. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Strathmore Gardens, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Aug. 20.

Concerning George Wilson, enclosing Laird Wilson's response to N. re: Wilson, concerning some mss. he does not want possession of, and mentioning a Burns ms.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : 14 Montgomerie Crescent, Kelvinside, Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1879 Oct. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed : 14 Montgomerie Crescent, Kelvinside, Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1879 Oct. 16.

Discussing the "wretched account of your University Finance," saying Knight is free to give some lectures "wherever" he is, mentioning a man "who would be glad to be boarded & coached for the Oxford honours in philosophy," thanking him for a volume he sent long ago, saying he will try to get it noticed in the Herald, mentioning "the Luke fellow" who has been appointed to a professorship in Wales, and concerning other matters relating to higher education.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.)

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Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889,. Autograph letters signed from James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Stratford, Worthing and Brighton, to John Wilkinson of Sotheby and Wilkinson [manuscript], 1868-1886.

Title: Autograph letters signed from James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Stratford, Worthing and Brighton, to John Wilkinson of Sotheby and Wilkinson [manuscript], 1868-1886.

Letter (2) requests the price and purchaser of a copy of Steeven's reprint of the Shakespeare quartos sold at Nichol's sale.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph card signed : [London], to W.A. Knight, 1894 Jan. 8.

Title: Autograph card signed : [London], to W.A. Knight, 1894 Jan. 8.

Saying he has come down with influenza and that his wife's condition has worsened.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Linton, Eliza (Lynn), 1822-1898. Autograph letter signed : Queen Anne's Mansions, St. James Park, to W.A. Knight, 1894 Nov. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Queen Anne's Mansions, St. James Park, to W.A. Knight, 1894 Nov. 25.

Discussing the character of Nichol at length, and saying she destroyed all of his letters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Nov. 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Nov. 13.

Informing him that Laird is the Master of Balliol.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Oct. 17.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Oct. 17.

Agreeing with him on the "waning influence of a system based on Catholic authority & nothing besides" [re: university operation] their weakness in taking the losing side in politics, giving an example in "Frederick Harrison and the Franco-German War," describing some lectures he is to give in London, saying he sent his notice of Jowett to the Glasgow Herald thinking no London paper would print anything of his, and saying that Lewis Campbell may get the Oxford Greek professorship, but not the mastership.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Wilberforce, Samuel, 1805-1873. Autograph letter signed as Bishop of Oxford : London, to Dr. Nichol, 1846 Aug. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed as Bishop of Oxford : London, to Dr. Nichol, 1846 Aug. 29.

Thanking him for his "System of the World," and commenting on it.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)

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Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Nov. 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Nov. 22.

Saying his wife is very ill.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1887 Nov. 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1887 Nov. 14.

Thanking him for "Tables," saying that the marks are his and that "BB" [B. Brown] has added nothing, mentioning dates he has found in the new edition of Vasari, mentioning his classes and sending Knight his new vol.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : 5 Hampstead Hill Gardens, London, to W.A. Knight, 1892 Jan. 26.

Title: Autograph letter signed : 5 Hampstead Hill Gardens, London, to W.A. Knight, 1892 Jan. 26.

Saying Sellar's memoir is admirable but disliking Lang's preface, mentioning Mrs. Sellar's request that he review it, asking if he received a copy of his "Liverpool address," briefly mentioning Collins, Campbell, Jebb, Ker, Kendall, Freeman and Ramsay, describing his sonnet on "Luke," and on matters concerning education.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Rothesay, to W.A. Knight, 1878 Dec. 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Rothesay, to W.A. Knight, 1878 Dec. 13.

Thanking him for his book, mentioning a financial problem and the legal difficulties it entails, mentioning "the moral rottenness of Scotch Theology," his loss of the logic chair and his poor health.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, [n.d.] "Friday."

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, [n.d.] "Friday."

Asking him for information on Robert Browning if he has "not yet destroyed the papers," concerning other misplaced papers, mentioning Sellar, asking him what he thought of Laird's book, saying he thinks it a "monument of research," and describing it in detail.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1888 Mar. 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1888 Mar. 2.

Thanking him for his acknowledgment of his "Tables," mentioning Bacon, saying he expects a proposal soon from Henderson and Blackwood, saying he has not yet sent the ms., concerning a financial matter, mentioning other vols. in the series on Mill and Spinoza, on his classes, mentioning the "Dialectic Society" and "University Reform."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 p.)

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Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893. Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1884 Nov. 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1884 Nov. 1.

Complimenting his Life of Burns and commenting on it, and concerning Nichol's son.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

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Linton, Eliza (Lynn), 1822-1898. Autograph letter signed : Brougham House, Malvern, to W.A. Knight, 1896 Jan. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Brougham House, Malvern, to W.A. Knight, 1896 Jan. 16.

Concerning Prof. Nichol and mentioning how he used to confide in her.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893. Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, [no year] Sept. 5.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, [no year] Sept. 5.

Praising what he has read of Nichol's Bacon, and arranging a meeting.

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Lushington, Edmund Law, 1811-1893. Autograph letter signed : Kenbank, Dalry, Galloway, to Nichol, 1882 Oct. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kenbank, Dalry, Galloway, to Nichol, 1882 Oct. 11.

Mentioning Sellar, hoping to see Nichol in Glasgow, praising his Burns and Byron books, and recalling a meeting with Hobhouse who spoke of Byron.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Linton, Eliza (Lynn), 1822-1898. Autograph postcard signed : Brougham House, to W.A. Knight, 1896 Mar. 17.

Title: Autograph postcard signed : Brougham House, to W.A. Knight, 1896 Mar. 17.

Concerning Nichol.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907. Letters signed (2) and autograph postcard signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1890 Jan. 25-1896 Dec. 15.

Title: Letters signed (2) and autograph postcard signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1890 Jan. 25-1896 Dec. 15.

Concerning his memoir of John Nichol.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 p.) ; (8vo and 32mo)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1894 Apr. 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1894 Apr. 1.

Arranging a meeting, mentioning his Paris excursion "as a distraction" which was a failure, and a business excursion to Scotland which was not, and on other personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph card signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, 1894 Apr. 23.

Title: Autograph card signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, 1894 Apr. 23.

Thanking him for a ticket to Guildhall Gallery which he hopes to use on the 2nd, regretting to have missed seeing Martineau, and wishing him "good-speed against Bute."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1887 Nov. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1887 Nov. 6.

Describing the "good attendance" for his speech and "Sellar in the chair & Flint & Butcher waxing very strong in their kind speeches at the close," a B. Brown who was less sympathetic but who later lent him the index for the last edition of Vasari, a series proposed by Henderson and Blackwood of biographical sketches" of which Bacon would be the chief," telling him his engravings have arrived safely, trusting he has the "Gladstone clippings" and saying that his "tales" are bothering him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Feb. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Kensington, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Feb. 6.

Mentioning an "Australian bequest" for Knight, on politics, hoping to go to a spa in March, concerning university matters and mentioning volumes on Bacon and Carlyle.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909,. Autograph letter signed from Algernon Charles Swinburne, Putney S.W., to John Nichol at The College, Glasgow [manuscript], [1879] September 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Algernon Charles Swinburne, Putney S.W., to John Nichol at The College, Glasgow [manuscript], [1879] September 20.

Swinburne writing from Ivy Lodge, Werter Road, Putney S.W., states that his family's home, Holmwood, has been sold and that he is going to live with his friend, W.T. Watts-Dunton in the suburbs. Swinburne speaks of his A Study of Shakespeare (1880), as being so close to publication that he can send Nichol a copy in a few weeks. He hears that Furnivall intends to anticipate it with a pamphlet reprinting his articles from the Spectator (Mr. Swinburne's "Flat Burglary" of Shakespeare, 1879). He also makes slighting remarks of Tennyson. An envelope, postmarked Henley-on-Thames February 1, [18]77, in Swinburne's hand addressed to John Nichol, but in different ink, is inlaid.

ArchivalResource: 5 leaves ; 18 x 10.5 cm.

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Nichol, John, 1833-1894. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, 1873 Mar. 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, 1873 Mar. 1.

Mentioning recent bouts with various illnesses, mentioning Barclay, saying he wrote a sonnet on Guthrie, mentioning a strong move by the Free Church "to foist the Revd. Dr. Robert Buchanan upon us as our Principal" and saying that they all hate him, and on other university matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.)

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