BIB_ID
289127
Accession number
MA 7605.1
Creator
De Vere, Aubrey, 1814-1902.
Display Date
1860 Aug. 9.
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Description
1 item ( 8 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 58 letters from Aubrey De Vere to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field. Letters are cataloged individually in 58 records (MA 7605.1-58).
Written from Bochampton Lodge, Barnes on Athenaeum stationery.
Written from Bochampton Lodge, Barnes on Athenaeum stationery.
Summary
Responding to her letter and mentioning that he has "been very busy on the subject of Education in Ireland, which is one of the Parliamentary faction-fights of the day." Hoping to see her and Mr. Field at Coniston. Describing Oxford (quoting Wordsworth for part), and encouraging them to visit, noting that "a day at Oxford is a day spent in the thirteenth century."
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