Roundell Palmer's Memorials
Memorials. Part I. Family and Personal. 1766-1865. Roundell Palmer, Earl of Selborne. Volume 1. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1896. Index
[Roundell talks further of his friendships. The Oxford University Magazine was founded and Roundell contributed. The following anecdote is of interest.]
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My own contributions were various in kind, some in verse, some in prose; the verses better, perhaps, than the prose, which was for the most part puerile. In one of them I invented an Earl of Selborne, having then no sort of interest in or knowledge of Selborne, not having even read Gilbert White’s book, though I had of course heard of it. It is hardly necessary to add, that this early anticipation of the title which I was afterwards to bear had no influence upon my purchase of land at Selborne in 1865, or upon my choice of that title in 1872.
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Roundell Palmer ætat 22. R.A. Clack, Oxford, del.
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