Item 82 - Copy letter from A. E. Housman to J. G. Frazer

1 item; typescript copy

Trinity College. Dated 21 May 1913 - Describes the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin in Naples in 1897, with an illumination, the blowing of penny trumpets, falling asleep to the sound of barrel-organs, waked by dynamite rockets at 4, 'the only step possible beyond this is assassination, which accordingly takes place about peep of day. I forget now the number of the slain, but I think the average is eight or ten, and I know that in honour of my presence they murdered a few more than ususal'; encloses an extract about Satan in Scotland [not transcribed]; accompanied by a description of the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin in 1906 on Capri.