Manuscript, in a single hand, of 11 letters by Taylor to various friends during his years at Cambridge University. The letters, dated between 1726 and 1728, are primarily jocular in tone, as in a comment to William Salisbury about his study of Greek: "I am willing to beleive, with the Saints, that Greek is a very Heathenish language, & that the very characters savour mightily of Antichrist or the Pope of Rome. But whether the Fatigue of studying Greek is answerable to the Fatigue of having nothing to do, I appeal to a Jury of Dutch Lexicographers." Other recipients include Samuel Pegge, Edward Rynaston, John Holcombe, James Drake, and Robert Cholmeley. The collection also includes a letter to himself, in which he writes, "I am heartily sorry for the very great mischeif you have brought upon yourself in desiring to establish a correspondence with me."
