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- 28 Dec. 1923 (Creation)
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(Oxford.)—Gordon would probably join the panel, if asked.
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P 4509
28 Dec. 1923. {1}
My dear Chambers,
I spoke to Gordon—I hope this was not indiscreet, as I had already heard a good deal from Simpson and from McKerrow. I think he would go on the panel if you asked him, and I think he would be worth having. He has, I believe, a wider range than anyone—now W.P. is gone {2}—being a very good classic and a respectable medievalist as well as thoroughly at home in all the modern periods.
But please regard this as no more than a well-intentioned suggestion, which does not expect any answer.
Yours sincerely
R. W. Chapman
E. K. Chambers Esq.
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Letter-head of The Clarendon Press, Oxford. The printed address has been struck through.
{1} The first two figures of the year are printed.
{2} W. P. Ker, who died on 17 July.
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Sent with MCKW A3/8a–c, e–f.
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- Chapman, Robert William (1881-1960), literary scholar and publisher (Subject)
- Chambers, Sir Edmund Kerchever (1866-1954), knight, theatre historian and civil servant (Subject)
- Gordon, George Stuart (1881-1942), college head and literary scholar (Subject)
- Simpson, Percy (1865-1962), literary scholar (Subject)
- Ker, William Paton (1855–1923), literary scholar (Subject)