Letters to "Ivy" from the First Earl of Dudley
by John William Ward Dudley (9781150269226)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Description: Letters to Helen d'Arcy Stewart from J. W. Ward, Earl of Dudley. Subjects: Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER I STARTING LIFE Aftkr taking leave of Edinburgh and the Dugald Stewarts, Ward was sent to Oxford, where he matriculated -- at Oriel College -- on October 17, 1799.1 From various expressions in his letters, some of which it has not been thought worth while to include here, he does not appear to have formed a very high opinion of the course of education as it then existed at Oxford, nor of the mode of life at the University generally, and at Oriel College in particular. While there, however, he formed a very warm attachment combined with respect for his college tutor, the distinguished Dr. Edward Copleston, who afterwards became Dean of St. Paul's and Bishop of Llandaff. This friendship continued unbroken throughout Ward's life, and was evinced by the long series of letters, the publication of a portion of which by the Bishop has been referred to already. No doubt during his stay at the University many letters must have passed between the young undergraduate and his ' dearest Mama' or ' Ivy,' by both of which terms of endearment he addresses Mrs. Stewart; but the two short letters which follow are all that survive of this correspondence, and, though they contain nothing of any special interest, it has been thought well to insert them, in order to show the mixture of filial and romantic affection with which the young man of nineteen -- or nearly twenty, as he then was -- regarded the dear friend who had taken the plac...

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