Letter from Paul Meyer to Henry Bradshaw
Passy-Paris, 99 Rue de la Tour, undated but probably 1870
University Library, MS Add. 8916/A70/79
Paul Meyer’s collection of correspondence is rich and includes letters exchanged with some of the major intellectuals of his time. The University Library holds an interesting collection of his letters and postcards, about twenty of which are addressed to the University Librarian, Henry Bradshaw, over the years 1870–1879. For years, Meyer insisted that Bradshaw publish in Romania two articles: one on the Library’s collection of manuscrits vaudois and the other on a famous Book of Hours (University Library, MS Dd.5.5) which had belonged to Marie de Saint-Pol, foundress of Pembroke College.
Letter from Paul Meyer to Henry Bradshaw
Passy-Paris, 99 Rue de la Tour, undated but probably 1870
University Library, MS Add. 8916/A70/79
Paul Meyer’s collection of correspondence is rich and includes letters exchanged with some of the major intellectuals of his time. The University Library holds an interesting collection of his letters and postcards, about twenty of which are addressed to the University Librarian, Henry Bradshaw, over the years 1870–1879. For years, Meyer insisted that Bradshaw publish in Romania two articles: one on the Library’s collection of manuscrits vaudois and the other on a famous Book of Hours (University Library, MS Dd.5.5) which had belonged to Marie de Saint-Pol, foundress of Pembroke College.
In 1870, he wrote: ‘[…] je compte toujours aussi sur la notice du livre d’heures de la fondatrice de Pembroke. Il ne doit pourtant pas falloir six mois pour rédiger cette notice.’ (‘I am also still counting on the short article on Pembroke’s foundress’s Book of Hours. It shouldn’t take more than six months to write it up.’)
About a year later, he followed up this reminder with another: ‘Je vous assure que ce que je tiens à obtenir de vous, ce n’est pas le catalogue de l’université, mais votre travail sur les Vaudois et sur le bréviaire de la dame de Pembroke. I shall bore you till I get them.’ (‘Let me assure you that what I want from you is not the university catalogue, but your work on the Vaudois [manuscripts] and on the breviary of the lady from Pembroke. I shall bore you till I get them.’)
