Letter 2232

Charlett received ‘a half dozen Almanacks’ as a gift. He complains of Mr Whiteside’s inability to move the holdings of the Museum ‘without injuring some Person, or crossing the Will of the Donor’. The Trustees of the Museum acquired Dr Radcliffe’s collection. Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, ‘Charlett, Arthur (1655–1722)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 10 Aug 2011]).