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MARKHAM SENDS HIS SYMPATHY ON THE DEATH OF HER FATHER
MARKHAM
(Sir Clements, 1830-1916, Geographer and President of the Royal Geographical Society)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Freeman, daughter of Edward A. FREEMAN
(Edward Augustus, 1823-1892, Historian), thanking. her for sending him such a long letter at such a time; and to give such a full account of your Father's last illness - and I cannot tell you how much it has interested me. It is very difficult to realise that he is gone in the very height of his great powers, for that third Sicily volume quite equalled anything he had ever done...I have written a short paper on the debt that geography owes to your Father, as I felt that some recognition of his great services to that science ought to appear in the Proceedings of the Geographical Society. Mr York Powell has kindly helped me... I thought the lines you send me so admirable that I have quoted them in my paper... Will you kindly let me know whether there is any objection to my quoting them in this way?... I feel for you all so much in this most sad home coming..., 3 sides 8vo, on crested paper, Neri, 6th May
Item Date: 1892
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FREEMAN was an historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician, a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans. After the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the fourth volume of his History of Sicily. From 1886 Freeman was forced by ill health to spend much of his time abroad. In February 1892 he visited Spain in company with his wife and two younger daughters. He fell ill at Valencia on 7th March, but on the 9th went on to Alicante, where his illness proved to be smallpox. He died at Alicante on 16th March. Frederick York POWELL (1850-1904) was an historian and scholar.
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