Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., Litt. D. Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Family History
- CHAPTER II 1841—1858: Childhood and School Days
- CHAPTER III 1858—1862: Undergraduate Years
- CHAPTER IV 1862—1864: Fellowship and College Work.—Tour in Egypt
- CHAPTER V 1865—1870: Diary and Letters.—Public Oratorship
- CHAPTER VI 1871—1872: Letters to C. L. S.
- CHAPTER VII 1872—1874: Cambridge Life and Work
- CHAPTER VIII 1874—1878: Marriage.—Election to Glasgow Chair. Inaugural Address. Letters by Rev. Dr Denney, and Mr R. P. G. Williamson, M.A.—Visit to Italy and Greece.—Illness
- CHAPTER IX 1878—1880: British School at Athens. Hellenic Society.—Visit to Paris.—Challenge by Dr Blackie.—Visit to Venice
- CHAPTER X 1881—1883: Springfield.—Bentley.—Attack on Glasgow University.—The Troad.—School at Athens
- CHAPTER XI 1883—1889: Visit to America.—Professor Fawcett.—Death of Mr Robert Jebb.—Royal Academy.—Ode to Bologna.—Resignation of Greek Chair in Glasgow
- CHAPTER XII 1889—1894: Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge.—Rede Lecture.—Election to Parliament. First Speech
- CHAPTER XIII 1894—1896: The Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill. Speech.—Illness
- CHAPTER XIV 1896—1898: Conference on Secondary Education.—Visit to the Riviera.—Voluntary Schools' Grant Bill. Sir John Gorst's Education Bill. Burial Grounds Committee
- CHAPTER XV 1898—1900: Death of Mr Gladstone.—Speech on the Rating of Clergymen.—Letters.—Romanes Lecture.—War. Consultation's Committee.—Knighthood
- CHAPTER XVI 1900—1901: Re-election.—Death of the Queen.—Deputation to Mr Balfour.—Irish University Commission
- CHAPTER XVII 1902—1903: British Academy.—Education Bill.—Tercentenary of Bodleian Library.—Trustee of British Museum.—Memorial Cloister at Charterhouse
- CHAPTER XVIII 1904—1905: Letters.—Order of Merit.—Defeat of Government
- CHAPTER XIX 1905: Visit to South Africa.—Last Illness
- The Scholar and Critic
- Index
CHAPTER VI - 1871—1872: Letters to C. L. S.
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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Family History
- CHAPTER II 1841—1858: Childhood and School Days
- CHAPTER III 1858—1862: Undergraduate Years
- CHAPTER IV 1862—1864: Fellowship and College Work.—Tour in Egypt
- CHAPTER V 1865—1870: Diary and Letters.—Public Oratorship
- CHAPTER VI 1871—1872: Letters to C. L. S.
- CHAPTER VII 1872—1874: Cambridge Life and Work
- CHAPTER VIII 1874—1878: Marriage.—Election to Glasgow Chair. Inaugural Address. Letters by Rev. Dr Denney, and Mr R. P. G. Williamson, M.A.—Visit to Italy and Greece.—Illness
- CHAPTER IX 1878—1880: British School at Athens. Hellenic Society.—Visit to Paris.—Challenge by Dr Blackie.—Visit to Venice
- CHAPTER X 1881—1883: Springfield.—Bentley.—Attack on Glasgow University.—The Troad.—School at Athens
- CHAPTER XI 1883—1889: Visit to America.—Professor Fawcett.—Death of Mr Robert Jebb.—Royal Academy.—Ode to Bologna.—Resignation of Greek Chair in Glasgow
- CHAPTER XII 1889—1894: Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge.—Rede Lecture.—Election to Parliament. First Speech
- CHAPTER XIII 1894—1896: The Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill. Speech.—Illness
- CHAPTER XIV 1896—1898: Conference on Secondary Education.—Visit to the Riviera.—Voluntary Schools' Grant Bill. Sir John Gorst's Education Bill. Burial Grounds Committee
- CHAPTER XV 1898—1900: Death of Mr Gladstone.—Speech on the Rating of Clergymen.—Letters.—Romanes Lecture.—War. Consultation's Committee.—Knighthood
- CHAPTER XVI 1900—1901: Re-election.—Death of the Queen.—Deputation to Mr Balfour.—Irish University Commission
- CHAPTER XVII 1902—1903: British Academy.—Education Bill.—Tercentenary of Bodleian Library.—Trustee of British Museum.—Memorial Cloister at Charterhouse
- CHAPTER XVIII 1904—1905: Letters.—Order of Merit.—Defeat of Government
- CHAPTER XIX 1905: Visit to South Africa.—Last Illness
- The Scholar and Critic
- Index
Summary
In the spring of 1871 R. C. Jebb met the lady who afterwards became his wife. She was at the time visiting a cousin in Cambridge, and on her return to America early in August a correspondence between them began in a rather unusual way. He sent her as a parting present a book of photographs of all the places of interest she had seen in Cambridge, and accompanied the gift with some graceful and amusing verses.
This was the beginning of a correspondence that gradually became regular and continued until their marriage in 1874.
To C. L. S.
“September 16th, 1871.
Nothing in your letter interested me so deeply as your account of the meaning which you attach to religion. Between the spirit of your view and the spirit of mine there is an essential analogy. It is this—that for me, just as for you, religion almost excludes reasoning. I hold my Christianity very much as you hold your belief in God. That is, the Christian morality and the Christian hope appear to me to be divinely adapted to the human heart; I accept them therefore as a divine revelation, on the same ground that supports your faith in a surrounding, protecting, disposing Power. But though I have this definite and constantly evident reason for my belief, I do not pretend or attempt to analyse those details of Christianity which the theological subtlety of centuries has formulated into dogmas of which the very language is unintelligible, without research, to minds of the present day.
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- Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., Litt. D.With a Chapter on Sir Richard Jebb as Scholar and Critic by Dr. A. W. Verrall, pp. 103 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1907