Trinity Lodge. Has been suffering an illness, examined Classical candidates with Duff, Bernard Butler has been made a colonel, Nevile Butler now in Dunkeld.
In general, the sketches seem to have been done first in pencil and then gone over in sepia and/or black ink line and wash. In one sketch, 'Girton Lecturer Diffusing Sweetness And Light', depicting Duff with a number of Girton College students, the wash is watercolour paint rather than ink. Many of the sketches are initialled 'E. M.' for Eveleen Myers; the date is often added, 1887 in all cases. Duff and Babington Smith are almost always identified, usually with initials, occasionally by name.
Most of the sketches are given titles, as follows: Untitled (landscape with castles); 'Between two Hemispheres'; 'Two ways of greeting the sun'; 'Rough? or Smooth?'; untitled [Duff and Babington Smith conversing); 'Breakfast 12.30 P. M.'; 'Arcades ambo. Mr H. B. Smith & Mr Duff. 3. A.M.'; 'The midnight oil'; 'two heads are better than one'; 'A Bear-Fight Extraordinary' (including A. H. Clough the younger); 'The Young Idea'; 'Back From Cyprus!'; 'Hero Bombarding A Hat'; 'The Early Bird And The Late Worm | Breakfast. 11 A.M.' ('Worm' and 'Bird' are transposed in a correction above the original title); 'Highland chieftains: Clan Duff & Clan Smith'; 'The Macduff, On The Rampage'; 'Greek Messenger Describing Death of Jocasta' [Babington Smith acted in the 1887 Cambridge Greek Play production of *Oedipus Tyrannus'; 'Girton Lecturer Diffusing Sweetness And Light'; 'Intelligent Sympathy'; 'Practical Consolation'; 'New brooms sweep clean - reforms of H. B. S. in the Education Office'; 'After The Battle - An Enemy's Counsel' [scene from a game of whist or bridge]; 'Savoy Theatre: a 'Bond' of affection'; 'Thus We Two Parted. In Silence And Pain; / We Were Half-Broken Hearted - But Soon Met Again!!'; 'A Donkey-Race For the Tripos'.
The Girton students depicted with J. D. Duff are Gertrude Mary Butler, Edith Mary Bough, Edith Lydia Johns, Mary Hay Wood, Jane Lily Edwards, Sylvia Grant [later Farmer], Beatrice Geraldine Hudson [later Colby], Jane Ewing Wilson [later Hannay], and Augusta Klein [later Kirby].
With note, 5 May 1969, from Mary Duff explaining some details of the Girton picture.
Myers, Eveleen (1856-1937), née Tennant, photographerCongratulations on engagement.
Two letters from J. D. Duff: one in 1929 putting off the suggestion to sit for a portrait, another in 1931 agreeing that he "cannot refuse to face it now" with three letters from Tegetmeier about the portrait in 1932 with suggestions of another artist, Farquaharson Small, whom the College apparently tries and fails to contact, with another suggestion of an artist, Archie Gitts.
Trinity College, Cambridge. - Sends a copy of FitzGerald's letter, 'or of the part of it Munro had written out on the flyleaf of his book'. Does not understand the penultimate sentence, but has copied it correctly, and is unsure whether the last sentence 'belongs to the letter or not' as there are no quotation marks at the end.
With extracts from the FitzGerald letter on separate sheet, on Lucretius
Includes a preface to the translations of H A J Munro and photographs of Lord Adrian
Strathaird, Lady Margaret Road, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer, noting that it's a great day for Trinity when two Fellows receive the Order of Merit on the same day.
Includes 8pp offprint of lecture by Sir J.G. Frazer titled 'The Scope and Method of Mental Anthropology', Science Progress, April 1922.
Includes letters re Trinity College Commemoration Dinner, which was held on 5 December
Duplicated typescript with title, "J. D. Duff of Trinity, 1860-1940."
Duff, Alan Colquhoun (1896-1973) army officer and writerFour autograph letters enclosed: James Duff Duff to [G. M.?] Trevelyan; R. St. John Parry to Patrick Duff; A. E. Housman to James Duff Duff; Herbert William Malkin to James Duff Duff.
Also transcript of letter, Thomas Carlyle to George Otto Trevelyan, 3 Apr. 1876.
Postmarked Cambridge. Addressed to Duff at Lady Margaret Road, Cambridge.
Strathaird, Lady Margaret Road, Cambridge. Dated June 26, 1912 - Admires his memoir of Cowper.
c/o B[ernard] Berenson Esq., I Tatti, Settignano, Florence. - Thanks his father for his letter, with his mother's, which reached him quickly; thinks 'the posts are working better'. Hears 'quite regularly from Bessie and Julian' who seem to be greatly enjoying themselves in the Netherlands; Julian seems to have 'made great friends with his young cousins', who are a little older.
Has had 'very bad weather' since he came, except for a few days, but 'Italy is delightful in all weathers' if, as now, it is not too cold. Heard a cuckoo this morning for the 'first time [this spring]', and expects he would have heard nightingales by now were it not for the rain. Is glad his father finds 'the Tchekof stories interesting [see 12/317]'; has six other volumes he could lend him when he returns home. Chekhov is 'certainly not at his best in those short sordid stories, though he tells them skilfully enough'; he needed to 'write to make money for his family, and so did quite a good many pot-boilers'. Likes him best when he 'gets hold of a character that really interests him, and gives himself room to develop it a little'. Has a volume of Chekhov, 'all stories about peasants and country priests, which are perhaps more moving than any others of his' he knows, which he could lend to his father; also suggests that if his father wants 'another good Russian book' he should 'get Aksakof's memoirs, in three volumes, perfectly translated by Duff the classical Trinity don'. The London Library has them, but they are 'often out'.
The Berensons send their 'kindest remembrances'; Robert sends his love to his mother, to whom he will write soon. The Uffizi 'has all been rearranged, and the best pictures, such as the Primavera of Botticelli, have been brought from the Ac[c]ademia'; this is 'on the whole... an improvement'.
The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking. - Thanks his father for his 'kind letter of welcome home [12/305]'; found 'everything well' here. The [Sturge] Moores will stay a few days longer; they have been 'very good and easy companions for Bessie through the winter. Julian comes home [from school] on the 8th, and the Moores leave on the 10th. He and Bessie are going to London tomorrow: Bessie to Charles and Molly's, and Robert to the Birrells' house; they lunched there last week and found his friend [Francis Birrell]'s father 'apparently in good health, and a most kind and entertaining host'. Thanks his father for the fifty pounds; has just received notice from the bank [Drummonds] that it has been paid into his and Bessie's account.
Not surprised that his father finds Lucretius III.877-9 difficult; discusses a reading by Lachmann, Munro, and Duff which 'makes everything easy' and which he thinks is right, as 'lines in Lucretius are often transposed'; interesting however that his father 'managed to construe it as it stands'.
Thanks Duff for his letter and the Lucan notes; is surprised his 'little bit of translation', which he did when 'Postgate was trying to make [him] believe that blank verse was the proper medium', has had such a good reception. Thanks for Duff's note on Cicero. Is very glad Duff thinks well of his book [The Roman Republic?]; had some good reviews though a 'great Oxford light' recently 'sneered' at him 'as a hunter after pretty phrases'.
Heitland, William Emerton (1847-1935) classicistAccompanied by a sheet with poetry discussed in the letter.
Pleased for J R M Butler to publish from a letter received from James Duff; returns letter from James Duff to Butler, 28 Jan. 1957, with two photocopies.
Letters on questions of classical philology, many of them related to Duff's work on Silius Italicus' Punica. There are 15 letters, 1 post card and a sheet of notes dated 1921-1933 from A. E. Housman; 20 letters, cards, and notes from W. T. Vesey dated 1931-1932, and a letter from W. T. Heitland dated 4 Jan. 1933, from W. Wyse dated 25 July 1922, and a letter from J. Conington to H. A. J. Munro about his Lucretius dated 1 Dec. 1864.