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* Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson.
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Letters by the reams came in from investment firms all over the nation, all of them wanting to get a part of the shares that would be sold ( 185,000 to the public at $12.50, with another 5,000 reserved for Morton Foods employes at $11.50 a share ).
Letters with asterisks are shown from the side (* L left or * R right ), rather than as the viewer would see them.
* Dürer, Albrecht ( translated by R. T. Nichol from the Latin text ), Of the Just Shaping of Letters, Dover Publications.
Madrid, Aug. 28. Letters from Lisbon bring the following Account from Rio Janeiro: That the St. Augustine, of 70 Guns, having being separated from the Squadron of M. Casa Tilly, was attacked by two Portugueze Ships, against which they defended themselves for a Day and a Night, but being next Day surrounded by the Portugueze Fleet, was obliged to surrender.
In 1958 he was awarded a grant from and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Letters from the beginning of the alphabet like a, b, c ... often denote constants in the context of the discussion at hand, while letters from the end of the alphabet, like ... x, y, z, are usually reserved for the variables, a convention initiated by Descartes.
Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d ' obligation et d ' amour ) ( 1669 ), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet was expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ).
* C. S. Lewis used the epistolary form for The Screwtape Letters ( 1942 ), and considered writing a companion novel from an angel's point of view — though he never did so.
* In John Barth's epistolary work, Letters ( 1979 ), the author interacts with characters from his other novels.
* The Screwtape Letters, written by C. S. Lewis, is purported to be a series of missives from a demonic teacher at a college to his protégé.
Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters are letters he wrote addressed to his children from Father Christmas.
* 1842 21 August – The Church of England Diocese of Gibraltar was founded by Letters Patent and took over the pastoral care of the chaplaincies and congregations from Portugal to the Caspian Sea.
Letters and Oxford
In July 1962, he was invested with the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the universities of Oxford and Durham.
Chaplin was also awarded honorary Doctor of Letters degrees by the University of Oxford and the University of Durham in 1962.
Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.
The first was Letters from Oxford, a collection of letters written by Trevor-Roper between 1947 – 60 to his close friend, the American art collector Bernard Berenson.
Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.
A more modern edition ( and translation ) of Lanfranc's correspondence is to be found in H. Clover and M. Gibson ( eds ), The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury ( Oxford, 1979 ).
His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).
In 2008, he was awarded a Rolf Schock Prize for his work in philosophy, the Balzan prize, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Oxford.
The dean's chief published works are a Life of St Anselm ( 1870 ), the lives of Spenser ( 1879 ) and Bacon ( 1884 ) in Macmillan's " Men of Letters " series, an Essay on Dante ( 1878 ), The Oxford Movement ( 1891 ), together with many other volumes of essays and sermons.
* Lawrence Evans, ed., Letters of Walter Pater ( Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970 ; ISBN 0-19-953507-8 )
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