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Letter from Sylvia Pankhurst to Lord Pethick-Lawrence
Letter from Sylvia Pankhurst to Lord Pethick-Lawrence
PETH/9/65 · Item · 18 May 1956
Part of Pethick-Lawrence Papers

West Dene, 3 Charteris Road, Woodford Green, Essex.—She and Richard are moving to Ethiopia. Explains the reasons for the decision.

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‘West Dene’, 3 Charteris Road, Woodford Green, Essex, England
May 1st.

Dear Fred,

I am going away to Ethiopia for a long time and shall have to say goodbye to you and everyone. Probably I shall never return.

Richard was asked to take a post at the University College of Addis Ababa. I thanked the Emperor but wrote that I could not spare Richard. That is a couple of years ago. Then I began to think it would be best for us both to go. I could be of more use to them there than here I think. This has been agreed. The Emperor is making all arrangements for us.

It means ending “New Times and Ethiopia News” which has completed twenty years, but I hope to run a monthly there and to write some books.

In many ways I am sad to go—to part with dear friends—and packing and disposing of house and goods is a terrible toil. But it seems best.

Perhaps I shall have an opportunity to see you to say goodbye before I go.

We expect to leave about June.

With love from Richard and from
Sylvia.

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Letter-head of the New Times and Ethiopia News. Sylvia Pankhurst is named as Editor. At the head Gladys Groom has written, ‘P-L. replied personally 5/5/56’.
Letter from Dadie Rylands to R. C. Trevelyan
TRER/20/55 · Item · 29 Apr 1948
Part of Papers of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan

King's College, Cambridge. - Read Trevelyan's essay on poetry, "Thamyris", last night; thinks it is 'delightfully written', particularly the opening and first chapter. Generally agrees with the second chapter on spoken verse, but thinks it needs 'strengthening, further investigation and evidence'. Disagrees from Trevelyan on some points such as the speed at which the 'Miltonic monosyllabic line' reads. The chapter on 'Duple and Triple time baffles and bewilders' him: does not understand the terms in a poetic context and wants 'much more definition and example'; advises Trevelyan to look again at [George] Saintsbury's 'axioms in... "the Short History of Prosody"', which he himself finds 'very helpful'. Shows how his scansion of a line from [Shakespeare's] "Troilus and Cressida" differs from Trevelyan's. Thanks Trevelyan for letting him see the essay; may not have done it justice as yesterday he had two supervisions, an hour and a half's meeting with the Town Planning authority, and an audit of college silver, as well as 'hearing a young man's choral and orchestral setting of the "Prometheus" (done for George Thomson) played on a piano' and 'meeting a black emperor [Haile Selassie?] and his prime minister at dinner'.