Author:
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), Master of Balliol College, Oxford, translator of Plato and close friend of Florence Nightingale and contemporary of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll')
Publication details:
First letter, to Bramston, ‘Aug. 21 [no year, on paper watermarked 1864] / Tummil Bridge [i.e. Tummell Bridge, Pitlochry]’, on embossed letterhead of ‘COLL DE BALL / OXON’. Second letter, no date or page.
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Both letters signed ‘B Jowett’. ONE: Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My dear Bramston’. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, but with discoloration (probably deliberate, since he is writing from Scotland) to letterhead. Strip of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded for postage. Begins by asking for his thanks, and those of ‘Lord Kerry’ (his student, see Abbott’s ‘Life and Letters’), to be sent to ‘Captain Egerton for his kind and hospitable invitation’.
