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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp. [vi], 332. Folding synopsis of the Speech of Cassandra. Contemporary diamond patterned full calf with gilt ruled border rebacked leather label on spine all edges gilt with tooled design. VG. Gift inscription on title page partly shaved but with the name of C. F. Caledon i.e. Catherine Freeman Caledon, ne Yorke, (1786-1863) sister of Lord Viscount Royston who married Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon in 1811. Several notes in the margins, a correction and tipped in manuscript copies of three letters, two of these are extracts, and one piece taken from a publication, all written in the same hand as the inscription. The first from Richard Allot (school friend of Viscount Royston?) addresses Lady Caledon dated 1838 and consisting of about 226 words in which he takes issue with some of the author's assertions concerning Viscount Royston's mathematical skills. The second is an extract of a letter from Lady Margaret Fordyce ne Lindsay (1753-1814) sister-in-law of Philip Yorke, to the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (Viscount Royston's father) dated August 22nd 1808 and consisting of about 375 words concerning the loss of Viscount Royston and including a description of the response of the Russian merchants in St Petersburg on hearing of his death. The third is an anonymous extract of a letter dated 1808 and consisting of about 52 words once again describing the reaction in Russia to Viscount Royston's death. Finally an extract from the 'Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II, Empress of all the Russias'. Edited by Mrs [Martha] Wilmot Bradford who lived with the Princess from 1803 to 1808. Published in 1840. Volume 2nd. Page 272. The copied text consists of about 268 words in which Bradford says she had a lucky escape and was congratulated by the Princess and others (she was due to travel on the ill-fated ship) but mourns the loss of Viscount Royston who 'inspired one universal feeling, that of deep and just regret for his untimely fate.' Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (1784-1808) was a traveller, politician and a gifted scholar who while at Cambridge wrote a translation of Lycophron's poem about Cassandra that was praised by the classical scholar Richard Porson. In 1806, he embarked on a tour of the Russian Empire which he describes in his letters to his father that were published in this volume. His death at the age of 23 in a ship called the Agatha of Lbeck wrecked off Memel was mourned by all who knew him. In 1841 the Rev. Henry Pepys (1783-1860) became Bishop of Worcester. Anglo-Irish sisters Martha Wilmot ne Bradford (1775-1873) and Catherine Wilmot (1773-1824) both spent time in Russia in the early 1800s. Martha in particular became close to the aging Princess Daschkaw (1744-1810) who was a prominent intellectual figure, and later translated and published the Princess' memoirs. The Wilmots' journals and letters have also been published. Some light staining to upper margin of a few pages, otherwise very good. Light wear otherwise very good.