Portal:University of Oxford/Selected quotation/3

“

If I had to do literary work of an absorbing character, Oxford is the last place in which I should attempt to do it.

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— Lord Salisbury, writing to William Sanday in May 1900

Source

Letter to William Sanday, 30 May 1900; Brock and Curthoys (ed.) History of the University of Oxford (2000) vol. 7, pt. 2, ch. 25

Knowles, Elizabeth. "Lord Salisbury". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 December 2009.