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  • 2017
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    Willie King: One of Angus Wilson's 'Old Men at the Zoo'

    From 1937 until 1955, when he left to write full-time, Angus Wilson worked in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum. His 1961 novel, The Old Men at the Zoo, was a roman à clef based on many of the people he had known there. The character of...
    Wright, C. J.
  • 2007
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    Hugh James Rose, James Murray and The Foreign Quarterly Review

    The identity of the author of the famous article, 'Foreign Views of the Catholic Question', which appeared in The Foreign Quarterly Review in April 1829, gave rise to much contemporary debate. It has traditionally been attributed to the high church cleric Hugh James Rose. However, neither its contents or style...
    Wright, C. J.
  • 2003
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    Sir Frederic Madden and the Battle of the Brass Rubbings

    In 1844, brass-rubbings made by Lewis Pryce Madden in the west of England were acquired for the British Museum at the behest of his brother Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts. No record of them survives in the current catalogues of either the British Museum or the British Library. The...
    Wright, C. J.
  • 1997
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    Consort and cupola: Prince Albert, Panizzi and the Reading Room of the British Museum

    ON 25 October 1997 the round Reading Room of the British Museum closed its doors to readers for the last time. One hundred and forty years after it was opened Antonio Panizzi most visible achievement ceased to serve the function for which it was erected, as the chief means of...
    Wright, C. J.
  • 1988
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    A friend of the Clementis

    ON 10 March 1832 Muzio Clementi, 'The Father of the Pianoforte', breathed his last in the unlikely setting of Evesham in Worcestershire. The 'Land without Music' had lost its most distinguished resident foreign composer since the death of Handel over seventy years before. On 2 January, realizing that his life...
    Wright, C. J.
  • 1986
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    The man who wrote on the manuscripts in the British Museum

    IN November 1898 W. C. Hazlitt, the grandson of Hazlitt the essayist and a distinguished men of letters in his own right, received out of the blue a letter from one W. S. G. Richards. Richards explained that he was working on the genealogies of West Country families, especially those...
    Wright, C. J.
  • 1984
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    'My darling baby': Charles Kingsley's letters to his wife

    A few days before his marriage on 10 January 1844 to Frances Grenfell, 'Fanny' as she was called by her family, Charles Kingsley wrote to his bride-to-be about their honeymoon, 'shall I bring down all our letters to Cheddar?-I think so. -My baby, we will classify them, & put the...
    Wright, C. J.
  • 1982
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    Some unpublished correspondence of Sir Richard Steele

    IN its January issue of 1782, the Gentleman's Magazine carried amongst its obituaries the following item: 'January 1st . . . In the Circus, Bath, the right hon. Lady Trevor, relict of John Lord Trevor, and dau. of the late Sir Richard Steele'. The story of the Steele Family, it...
    Wright, C. J.