COLL P 01 05 021
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COLL P 01 05 021
Title
Provost Goodall: Letter to William Goodall
Level
Item
Date
28 January 1812
Extent & medium
1 item
Content description
Illness of Mrs Thackeray (Mrs Goodall's sister); writer in town on business, partly concerning Porny School; sorry at news of surrender of Valencia; Hitcham valued at £540 pa and he expects to clear £350; another volume by [George] Shaw on birds published; wants copy of Harwood's Alumni Etonenses to interleave and will buy some shells in exchange; the new bishop [probably William Jackson of Oxford], has not the merit of his predecessor and is called Bishop of Oporto because of his fondness for port; describes two ends of Strand, building works etc; is building a water closet in his new house; [Samuel Grove] Price to be Captain of the School; hopes he will conduct himself well enough to get a character for King's; note on book prices. PLACE: Blake's Hotel, [London]
Physical characteristics
ALS. 1 bifolium
Associated material
Etoniana pp. 535, 764
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