“Modest but well-deserved claims”: The friendship of Samuel Fox and Joseph Bosworth and the study of Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century

Joseph Bosworth’s copy of Samuel Fox’s 1835 edition of The Metres of Boethius, presented to him by the editor, contains (pasted to the covers) a fragmentary record of the correspondence between the two men which must have extended from 1833 until Fox’s death in 1870. Partial and short as it is, this...