Kemble at Trinity (II)

<Kemble's return to Cambridge after the 'Spanish Expedition'. His status in Trinity College.>

<Kemble's edition of Beowulf (1833). Image of inscription in copy presented to Trinity College.>

In a letter to his old friend William Bodham Donne, dated 22 June 1833, Kemble tried to entice him to visit Cambridge:

At the date of this present writing, all Cambridge is in a bustle. The British Association for the Advancement of Science (or something or other) meet here on Monday, and the strangest whelps are parading our streets, that Cantab ever imagined. I wish to heaven (pray do not read this part to Catherine [WBD's wife]) you could shift the married man off your shoulders for a week and come over to us. I will breakfast and dine you, and bring you acquainted with all the scientifics I know, who are in fact the Scientifics of Trinity; and we will have some magnificent converse with Hallam and the Tennysons who in all human probability will be here; and with Whewell and Thirlwall and Sedgwick, than whom none better. (WBD and his Friends, p. 16)

<Prospectus for Kemble's lectures of the history of the English language (1834). Kemble's reports on the progress of the lectures, in his letters to WBD.>

<Image of offprint of Kemble's paper 'On Old English Præterites' (1834), inscribed to Arthur H. Hallam.>

<Kemble's departure from Trinity in 1835, under a cloud.>