Identity area
Reference code
Miscellaneous/Box 9/HA8
Unique identifier
GB 275 Miscellaneous/Box 9/HA8
Title
A.L.s. from Charles Henry Hartshorne to John Roberts
Date(s)
- 1 January 1823 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
3p
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bought from W. T. Spencer, 1966
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Gives a description of a vist to Oxford which he has just undertaken. Gives a list of the books he has sent, and praises 'the excellent Dr Bliss, an antiquary before his time.' The lack of decoration makes him 'with difficulty believe that Christmas has reached Cambridge' and is missing the old Shropshire custom 'under the boughs of the sacred mistletoe'. Is due to leave Cambridge for Stourbridge soon.