Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to the transliteration of Egyptian into Greek; his plans for a book on Dorian Measure; his Homeric studies; a paper by [F. B.] Jevons of Durham; Greek and Egyptian etymology; the origins of Greek religion and civilisation; and Home Rule in Ireland.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to tables which Baillie sent to him; the Greek and Egyptian languages; his intention to write to [Walter W.] Skeat about the word 'scope'; Maspero's 'Archeologie egyptienne'; and Home Rule in Ireland.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing Baillie's and [Gaston] Maspero's opinion on the etymology of a Greek word; the origin of the name 'Aphrodite'; the history of 'heathen religions' and gods; the lineage of Epaphus; his health; and a song he has written.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, informing him of the drowning of a son of D'Arcy Thompson on Lough Corrib. Refers to visits to Haslemere, Surrey and the Manchester Exhibition; his work; his ill health and his wish to be in the Scottish Highlands.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing the death of [Martin] Geldart; friends at Oxford who died by suicide. Mentions Geldart's autobiography. Refers to his collection of letters; his correspondence with Baillie; [John] Hannah and MacFarlane; his melancholy; Gladstone; and his work in Ireland.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to [John] Hannah and the Rectory of Brighton; a photograph that Baillie sent; a book on epigraphy; a decision made by Pope [Leo XIII]; rural and town living; poverty and populations; an incident at the Battle of Majuba Hill, South Africa; and Gladstone.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to Sanskrit and Greek etymology; the 'hounds of dawn' in various mythologies; and his theory of Phoenician and Egyptian influence on the history of Greece and Greek religion. Refers Baillie to [Heinrich] Brugsch's work.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to D'Arcy Thompson, a Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland; a new work on Egypt by [Gaston] Maspero; and his own work on Egypt, 'Pindar and the theory of rhythm and the Dorian measure'.
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Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing several Greek and Egyptian words; Greek transliteration; Greek religion and mythology; his theory on Egyptian civilisation in Crete; and the influence of Egypt on Greece in general.
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Postcard from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, Stephen's Green) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie (22 Sackville Street, London), discussing the etymology of certain words; the influence of 'Sanskritists' on Baillie's work; the unreliability of certain etymologies; and his theory about Egyptian influence on Greek religious thought.
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Postcard from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, Stephen's Green) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie (22 Sackville Street, London), discussing Greek/Egyptian words; the tradition of a Phoenician foundation of Thebes; the Egyptian colonisation of Crete; the name 'Aphrodite'; and an upcoming visit to Baillie.
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