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Cairo. Does not care for the comparison of Asquith and Lloyd George with Newcastle and Peel, DAW has been moved from Alexandria to Cairo.

Perhaps relating to Jeanetta Potts, widow of Robert Potts. The haunting is said to have occurred in a house on Trumpington Street belonging to her friend, 'Mrs Jephson, widow of an Oxford man'. With letter, 20 Nov. 1944, from Florence Image to D. A. Winstanley: 'I unearthed this for Mrs Reid who knew Mrs Potts, but had not heard the story...'

Includes a letter from A.N. Shaw of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, re his memorial lecture on Rutherford. A reprint of the lecture titled 'Rutherford at McGill' is attached.

Trinity College. Surprised to see J R M Butler living in a warehouse, Claude Elliott has become a father.

Retreat of the allies, heavy losses suffered by the expeditionary force.

The outbreak of war, a field hospital has been erected in Nevile's Court.

On leave in Cambridge, played tennis with Romney and "that detestable pagan Hardy", Winstanley a "bosom friend of Bert Russell, Hardy and that crew"

Letters from Robert W Ditchburn and George A. Weekes are in 66; those from Maud Venables Vernon and Roland Venables Vernon are in 67.

Report of a debate on compulsory chapel.

compulsory chapel at Trinity.

C/54 includes correspondence from Newnham College Cambridge inviting Thomson to deliver the Sidgwick Memorial Lecture.

Performed in aid of the Grantchester Tower Appeal.

Plymouth. Unexpectedly met the Cornfords on Dartmoor and saw the King in London on his way to his coronation.

Winstanley encloses his rough notes on Trinity statutes and James Henry Monk's decision to take a doctor's degree and retain his Professorship.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Her husband cannot answer her letter himself, as he has been ill since March, a case of over-work nearly all his life; the Vice Master [Denys Arthur Winstanley] takes his place and they will not hear of his resignation; he was pleased to hear that Frazer's notebooks were donated to the British Museum; their daughter Joan is now at the Labour Ministry in Sidney College; hopes they enjoy their new flats; will call next week, 'I only wish I could say that my Husband is clear in his mind now'.

Accompanying a college bill of [Charles?] Ames, Christmas 1726 and a forwarding letter sent to WInstanley by the Deputy Librarian of St. John's.

Accompanying a college bill of [Charles?] Ames, Christmas 1726, 'found 'among some miscellaneous letters, etc., which came from R. F. Scott's collections', for which despite the pencil note at the bottom the St. John's librarians can 'find no Johnian Ames of the right date' and so send on to Trinity.

Encourages him to make for Switzerland, it would be scandalous if the country went to war to increase Russian influence in the Balkans, Winstanley and Bertrand Russell campaigning against war, Trinity High Table cricket team (G H Hardy not in good form) WEA social gathering.

Trinity College. Encloses his Latin inscriptions for Prior and Sedley Taylor, noting his use of the nominative case as Sedley Taylor is not declinable and the debate over the declinability of Prior would "excite acrimonious controversy."

Trinity College, Cambridge - Has heard that Frazer will not be able to attend the ceremony of installing the new Master and sympathises with his disappointment, given his position as senior master and his long connection with the college.

Relating to thefts from Trinity library alleged to have been carried out by J. O. Halliwell-Philipps.

Chaired a debate on the Poor Law, Poland, Geoffrey Tower is to lecture on the poets of the reformation, hopes no Newnhamites will attend and cause them to be curtailed, Winstanley has revolutionised history, Malcolm Bullock and Dennis Robertson, Robertson has resigned his post with the OTC.

G M Trevelyan has decided to accept the Mastership of Trinity if asked.

Visitors to College.