Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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Credit: Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART VII.—CHARLES EARL STANHOPE AND THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Since the publication of this volume, the letter which was written by Earl Stanhope to the Delegates, when he presented to them his model Press (see Collectanea III, p. 403), has been found, although the model itself has not, I am sorry to say. The letter is in the following terms :— [D. M.] Stratford Place, July 29th, 1805.—Sir 1 take the liberty of sending you, for the University of Oxford, a Demonstrative Model, of the Principle of my newly invented Printing Prefs. It is founded upon that grand- and universal Principle in Mechanics, namely; that Power produced, is inversely as Velocity produced, and directly as Velocity producing. Please to present them that Model, with my best respects, together with this Letter, and also the inclosed Directions for using my Prefs. I send inclosed another Copy for your/elf. I am, Sir, your moft obedient Servant, STANHOPE. M*. Bensley. The document is interesting, for being entirely in his Lord- ship’s handwriting, it proves conclusively the statements made on pp. 377, 40a and elsewhere, that the ‘ Letter of Andrew Wilson ’ and other documents which purported to be written by Wilson or to Wilson, or to be in some way the concern of that person, were really due to Lord Stanhope himself, whose tremendous energy could not be suppressed, although characteristically his Lordship did not wish to appear too obviously in person. The Directions are no doubt those printed on page 401. In regard to the statement about Paper-hangings, p. 380, an old printer friend writes to me as follows:— In the monograph on Earl Stanhope, one of your notes [p. 380], to the effect that paper-hangings were ‘ seemingly ’ printed at a hand-