E. B. Pusey [Edward Bouverie Pusey], Oxford Professor of Hebrew and leading figure in the Oxford Movement. ANS

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, on both sides of a 9 x 10.5 cm piece of paper. Aged and worn, with a corner cut away, but the text complete.Nineteen lines in a close and difficult hand. Addressed to 'My dear Mgnr [i.e. Monsignor]' and signed 'E B Pusey'. Interpretation of Pusey's execrable handwriting is challenging. He appears to be ‘lecturing on the Psalms’, and may be requesting ‘combined lectures’. Other phrases that stand out are ‘some other Hebrew subject’, ‘the original idea’, ‘supplement the Professors lectures’, ‘competition studies’, ‘it is difficult to obtain a class, of any dimension’. One passage seems decipherable: ‘The Psalms have been one of my special studies before my Professorial years; and now too I review all the latest writings upon them’. See Image.