Philip “Polyby” Williams project
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Digital correspondence of Philip “Polyby” Williams
We are proud to be publishing the first critical edition of the correspondence of Philip “Polyby” Williams. This correspondence runs to some 200 letters and is being published digitally in EE from manuscripts held in the archives of Winchester College, Oxford University Press and the Hampshire Record Office.
Work in progress includes the following letters:
- Mrs Anne Williams (Cambridge) to her son Philip Williams (New College, Oxford), Monday, 18 August 1760
- Lovelace Bigg-Wither (London) to Philip Williams (Cambridge), Tuesday, 29 November 1763
- Frances & Anne Williams (Cambridge) to their brother Philip Williams (New College, Oxford), Thursday, 15 September 1768
- Dr John Gordon, (Scotland Yard, London) to his stepson Philip Williams (New College, Oxford), Wednesday, 28 December 1768
- Philip Williams (Chilton, near Newbury) to the Delegates of Oxford University Press, Sunday, 7 February 1773
- Philip Williams (Winchester) to Revd Dr Samuel Forster (Registrar of Oxford University Press), Tuesday, 25 November, 1777
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