The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Vol. 1: Head-Master of Shrewsbury School 1798-1836, and Afterwards Bishop of Lichfield; In So Far as They Illustrate the Scholastic, Religious, and Social Life of England, 1790 1840; Jan; 30, 1774 March 1, 1831

Very few letters reached me from other sources than the one I have indicated above. I should, however, thank Bishop Barry (as representing the family of the Rev. T. S. Hughes), the Rev. Walter Scott, son of the late Dean of Rochester, the Rev. J. Irvine of Colchester, and J. Willis Clark, Esq., for the loan of letters, some of which will follow in due order of date.

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