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Letter of acceptance for the 1905 Apostles' dinner.

Signed by candidates: Henry Babington Smith: Grace M. Macaulay (née Conybeare): Edith Oldham: Margaret Smith; Ada Currey; H. Gardiner; George Edward Smith; Mary Susan Duff (née Smith); Katharine Diana Ellis; Jane A. H. Ellis; Agnes J. Gardiner; Bertha Ellis; Margaret F. Ellis.

48: 20 May 1895, with addition, from A. G. Smith to Susan Emma Smith
49: 8 Aug 1895, with addition, A. H. Smith to Susan Emma Smith

47: 5 Nov 1897, end missing.

Congratulations on engagement.

33, dated on or before 15 Feb 1878, is in mirror writing.
51, 25 Jul 1910, in shorthand.

Letter of 17 Aug 1916 contains a note from Lady Elisabeth to Henry Babington Smith..

Hotel Flora, Roma - Apologises that [William] Maxwell bothered them, there has been no problem with the book [the 'Fasti'], the commentary is passed for the press and they are waiting for the paper, is delighted Frazer doesn't want to review the proofs of the index, asks if he needs to see the pages of the text and translation which he has twice reworked; is getting some illustrations from the Director of the British School at Rome, Mr Arthur Smith, and the Assistant Director of the German Institute.

From Arthur B. Cane, Austen Chamberlain, Ernest R. Debenham, Frank Gillson, L. N. Guillemard, Stanley M. Leathes, Theodore Morison, F. S. Oliver, Arthur Platt, W. A. Raleigh, R. Ll. B. Rathbone, A. H. Smith, H. Babington Smith, H. F. Stewart, Arthur H. Studd,. C. S. Whibley, H. F. Wilson.

Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum - Congratulates Frazer, and notes that the Society feels special satisfaction that the O.M. is conferred on a scholar who approaches antiquity 'so largely from the side of archaeology, in all its branches'.

Includes correspondence re Henry Babington Smith's grave; letters from Arthur Hamilton Smith and Reginald Heber Macaulay to Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith.