My dear Mr Coxe, If you have become a DD you must excuse me just as you had to do about the omission of your final e for which Mr Wither scolded me. As I never hear him call [you] anything but Coxe I have nothing to go upon.

When we were going to Oxford before, he gave me a message from you that you would be so kind as to look out for me the ... continue reading

My dear Mr Cox [sic], I dare say you will be so kind as to give me a morning in a Bodleian den some day next week -

Would you be so kind as to order for me anything you can find about Maximilian I of Germany - and about the city of Ulm in his time - I want as much anecdote and scenery as I can lay my hands on, wishing to represent him cutting ... continue reading

My dear Mr Coxe,

Many, many thanks for those saints, who were just what I wanted. Only would you further add to the kindness by telling me, what 'Surius' means. I must quote the authority for that out of the way kind of thing, and I don’t sufficiently understand what this means to put it down.

Were the Maura and Timothy of the Thebaid crucified? I want to know because Kingsley has a poem called Sta ... continue reading

My dear Mr Coxe I am going to venture on sending you my Greek Saints’ names. They are out of a Russian Calendar, and are those that seem to have been productive of names and that cannot have been common to both the Eastern and Western Churches since Alban Butler takes no notice of them. I hope it will not be very troublesome to you to note down for [me] where and when they lived, and ... continue reading

My dear Elizabeth

I ought long ago to have written to you though you told me not, I fully meant to have done so, I was so delighted with the book, but we have had a sad time of illness with poor Gertrude She got better for a fortnight, and then came all the old troubles, and now she has another abscess under her knee and I do not think will be up for a ... continue reading

My dear Elizabeth

I wonder whether you are taking your holiday at home or abroad. Of course I am only having the grace to write to you to ask you to help me, but I daresay you will excuse that. I think you went once to Buxton. Do you happen to have a guide book or the like with a description of Pools’ hole, or did you see the latter (if you hate ... continue reading