Letter from Dr Henry Montague Butler to Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire

Dr Butler writes thanking SCC for his recent letter published in The Times concerning benefactions to Cambridge Trinity University. He also writes of the benefaction made by Mr McClean who gave £12,500 to found a Newton Studentship for the "special study of astronomy". He writes that in a few years they will come into £70,000 bequeathed by Bishop Allen of Ely for the express purpose of creating new fellowships. He further writes of Mr Allport who has bequeathed £25,000 for furthering the study of mechanical science. Sent from: Trinity Lodge, Cambridge.

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