| Description | /353: Letter from W. S. Walker, Trinity College, Cambridge, to unidentified correspondent [possible Samuel Taylor Coleridge]: he asks for information on William Gilbert as he is writing an article on 'The Hurricane' to which his attention had been drawn by [the recipient's] and Wordsworth's notice of it; sends compliments to Mrs and Miss Coleridge to whom he had been introduced when they visited Cambridge. 17 December 1823
/354: Letter from Curzon, Land of Cakes, [postmarked Shrewsbury], to [his brother] W. S. Walker, Trinity College: addressed to 'Dear Sidi', he has stolen a bit of candle to write to the 'Land of Learning'; he himself is in the middle remove of the Upper Fourth and lists the books he is studying. 14 November 1826
/355: Letter from H[arriet] Walker, Squire's Mount, to her son, W. S. Walker, Trinity College, Cambridge: addressed to 'My dear Sidney', writes with domestic news of acquaintances. 3 May 1828
/356: Letter from H[arriet] Walker, Squire's Mount, to her son, W. S. Walker, Trinity College, Cambridge: addressed to 'My dear Sidney', refers to the fellowship gained by a friend and favourite; local news, sends apples and peaches. 6 October, no year given
/357: Letter from H[arriet] Walker, Turnham Green, to her son, W. S. Walker at Trumpington Street, Cambridge: comments on his mental and physical health. 13 February 1830
/358: Letter from Harriet Walker, Turnham Green, to her son, W. S. Walker, Clifton Place, Margate, Kent: is concerned for his health 'Do not, my dear son, omit taking as many baths as your medical man recommended ... I wish that you could get out more and breathe as much of the bracing sea air as you can'; family news. 3 November 1832
[William Sidney Walker (1795–1846), poet and Shakespearean critic; William Gilbert (1763-1825?), theosophist, poet, and astrologer, author of 'The Hurricane' published in 1796] |