Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Mrs. Hewitt, undated .

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Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Mrs. Hewitt, undated .

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Saying he is happy to see she is well again; talking about a university education for her husband; saying "three years work well given at any period of life, among sensible men, is a university education. Rough times are coming in which it will not be asked of men what they were taught at Oxford, but what they can learn now;" saying that "a good long sea voyage, with sailors work to do, or long travelling [sic] in difficult places, might do me good."

1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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