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'A reply to certain aspersions on Dr Butler in the preface to Sandys's edition of Cope's Rhetorick of Aristotle. With a copy of Dr Kennedy's first Greek Verse examination paper - and a few notes on John Gregory - alias John Bandy'

  • Butler/Section 2 (II)/10/8
  • File
  • 1877 (Earliest possible date [publication date of Sandys's edition referred to in the title].)
  • Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Pressed copy of the autograph manuscript by Samuel Butler. A note on the title page reads: 'I sent the first six pages of this article to the Shrewsbury School Magazine "The Salopian", But Moss did not consider it quite suitable for a school magazine.' Bound in a notebook.

'A reply to certain aspersions on Dr Butler in the preface to Sandys's edition of Cope's Rhetorick of Aristotle. With a copy of Dr Kennedy's first Greek Verse examination paper - and a few notes on John Gregory - alias John Bandy'

  • Butler/Section 2 (II)/10/7
  • File
  • 1877 (Earliest possible date [publication date of Sandys's edition referred to in the title].)
  • Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Autograph manuscript by Samuel Butler. A note on the title page reads: 'I sent the first six pp of this paper to the Shrewsbury School magazine "The Salopian", but Moss did not consider it quite suitable for a school magazine.'

Account book

'Samuel Butler Esq in account with Messrs Hoare'. Small account book with paper covers.

Account book

'Journal For my books a/cs'. Notebook with paper covers, containing accounts kept in pencil and ink in Samuel Butler's hand.

'Account Book 1897-1900'

Small hardcover (rebound) account book, containing cash accounts kept in Samuel Butler's hand. Many of the pages are crossed through in pencil. A handwritten note made by Henry Festing Jones on the flyleaf reads: 'We destroyed Butler's previous account books; but there were only a few, he having himself destroyed the early ones when he made the skeleton diary which is in his note-books.'

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