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8, Grange Gardens, Cambridge. - Thanks Winstanley for taking an initial look at the letters [from her late husband to W. F. Smith]. Mr [Hugh McLeod?] Innes has 'just approved Vol. i in its present form'. Would like Winstanley to read through again and if he has no corrections to pass the typescript to the Master [G. M. Trevelyan] to convey to the Council. Would like to produce a 'more perfect edition' of the letters if 'life should again prove amenable'.

Explains that 'Gaps in and at the end of sentences denote Greek passages which await the pen of a Classic. Paragraphs omitted are not indicated since my husband generally disposed of a subject in a paragraph - and the omissions do not disturb the rhythm. But words and passages omitted, as also one or two arresting observations shorn of their context which I retained, are duly indicated'.

8, Grange Gardens, Cambridge. - Confirms that the copyright in the letters from her late husband to W. F. Smith which she is giving to Trinity remains with her, and that she does not want any extracts from them to be published without her consent.

Letters date from 24 Sept. 1915-7 Nov. 1919, and include letters written to Smith's wife Maria Caroline, as well as a letter from her to Image, 22 Oct. 1919, and another to Florence Image with condolences on the death of her husband, 7 Nov. 1919.

Letterpress copying book, with copies of letters from Image to students and their families, as well as to other members of the College and University on tutorial business. Letter from Florence Image to the Master [G. M. Trevelyan], 15 Jun. 1948, originally accompanying the book when given to Trinity, pasted inside front cover.

Letter from Gerard F. Cobb of the Cambridge University Bicycle Club to J. M. Image, 26 Feb. 1877, with a receipt for a Life Membership fee.

Copy of note made 'after Professor Housman's Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge, 1911'.

Letters concerning classical studies and Trinity College business and social life, with a small group of printed material and testimonials. Some letters have explicatory notes by Florence Image, and almost 40 letters are from Henry Jackson. Other correspondents with several letters each are from or relating to: H. M. Butler (some to Florence Image), A. V. Verrall, W. Aldis Wright, W. H. Thompson, Duncan Crookes Tovey and other members of his family, J. G. Frazer, J. N. Dalton, and J. W. L. Glaisher; for other correspondents see names below. Some of the letters are by Image himself to various correspondents.

The printed items are: an unsigned printed letter opposing the education of choristers (a parody) dated 1877; a Greek text with an English translation, Fragmentum incerti ex Hēthikophysikolērois mocking the new Triposes, with a date of 20 Oct. 1848 written at the top of the first page ; comedic verses about Thomas Huxley in English and Greek; two notices about the non-placeting of the Grace for the Duke of York's degree in 1894; and a Latin poem about Como, a toy belonging to the Butler children James, Gordon, and Nevile, by Montagu Butler, dated April 1897. A small group of testimonials at the end of the collection were written in support of Image's candidacy to become Undermaster of the Upper School of Dulwich College in 1869.

Written on the death of John Maxwell Image.

Four letters concerning arrangements to do the portrait, mentions that his sister Mrs J. M. Image "knows Mr Taylor & has fired my imagination with his description."

55 Barton Road, Cambridge - Her husband [John Maxwell Image] used to tell her that the O.M. was a great honour, and that of those awarded to Oxford and Cambridge men, almost all were to Cambridge men, and of those most were at Trinity; how happy he would be to read of two more. Asks if the origin of the phrase 'Bless you' may not be derived in the same way as the Maori quotation in 'Folk-lore in the Old Testament'; apologises to Lady Frazer for not visiting.

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...'

22 Primrose Hill Rd., London, N.W.3. - Is pleased to hear good news about Frazer's eyes and grieved to hear of the many operations; her husband [John Maxwell Image] says Lady Frazer makes the only good drumsticks he's ever been served, also commenting, 'I shall be glad when women get the vote, for then I shall sometimes get the wing of a chicken'; she has an article in 'Punch' called 'Burr-Burr', about telephoning from the Zoo.