Richard Chenevix Trench note, sonnet, and photograph, 1861-1862.

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Richard Chenevix Trench note, sonnet, and photograph, 1861-1862.

The collection consists of three items: note, 21 Oct. 1861, confirming his attendance at a meeting; sonnet, 1 May 1862, contrasting the celebration of May Day with grief for an absent friend; carte-de-visite photograph of Trench seated at a table with an open book in front of him, credited to H. Hering.

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Hering, H. (Henry), 1814-1893

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Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886

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Richard Chenevix Trench was a poet, philologist, and Anglican minister. Born in Dublin, he graduated from Trinity College and held a series of religious and academic positions, culminating in his 1864 appointment as Archbishop of Dublin. His poetry, in the spirit of Wordsworth and Tennyson, was popular, and he distinguished himself as a philologist with several influential works, notably his 1857 paper, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, which helped inspire the project to create ...