autograph letter signed von temple frederick archbishop canterbury (2 Ergebnisse)

Three pages (expansive hand), 12mo, fold mark, good condition. "Ihave decided on offering you our Drawing Mastership. | The salary will be half a guninea for every Boy in the School not on the Foundation up to a maximum of 160 guineas. | The boys have steadily exceeded 320, not on the Foundation, for years. But [.] is our rule of payment in all cases. | I should be glad if you could come in about a month.".

2 pp. 8vo. Writing as Bishop of London (1885-96) to "My dear Palgrave", likely the poet and critic Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-97), who had once served as his vice-principal at the experimental school at Kneller Hall, Whitton: "I have kept these an unreasonable time. But I have been well nigh drowned in work. My criticisms you will think petty; and they are petty. But none other occur to me. I am afraid my critical faculty is not worth very much [.]". In 1892 Palgrave published "Amenophis and Other Poems, Sacred and Secular". - Traces of folds.