TALBOT3951

Kirby Underdale
Pocklington¹
Oct^r 5. 1839

Sir

I beg you to accept my best thanks for your obliging present.² I wish that you had more fellow-labourers in the same field. May I take the liberty of asking whether you happen to know of a library in London which would be described in Latin as “Ad aedes D. Katharinæ”. One of the professors at Bonn D^r Ritschl³ inquired of me about it last summer having met with a reference to some Manuscripts of Plautus or Terence, I think, said to be contained in it (I have just found the Programm which gives a more precise account of the matter. “Anglicorum codicum multitudo in promptu fuit Lengis Norvicensis Præsulis, e quibus illam ingentem discrepantis scripturae supellectilem congestam bibliothecæ D. Catharinæ legavit, unde postea utendam Harius (1724) accepit: cujus vide praef. p. xxiv.” – to Terence. ⁴

I thought this might be a library attached to S. Katharines Hospital⁵ and wrote to The Master on my return from Germany on the subject. But he informed me that he knew of none – If you could enable me to clear up this point you would additionally oblige

Sir Your very ob^d sv^t
C Thirlwall

H. F. Talbot Esq^r

[address panel:]
Pocklington October five 1839
H. F. Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
London
C Wood