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8 Grosvenor Crescent, S. W. [London] :- Thanks his parents for their last letter; they are in town again, as Bessie needs to go to rehearsals for her last concert [with Arnold Dolmetsch] on Wednesday. The concerts have 'gone of very well so far', though Robert was unable to attend the last one since it was on the 'evening of the [Apostles?] dinner'. Henry Jackson made a 'very nice speech', as did 'Judge Lushington, who was the oldest of those present'.

They lunched at North Street last week and thought Charles and Molly looked 'very happy, and their house very nice'. They went to Harrow last Saturday to see the [F. E.?] Marshalls and had a 'very pleasant time there'; they went to the 'Speech room' in the evening 'to hear the final reading for the reading prize' which was 'very amusing', though they 'did not think the standard very high'. 'Young [James?] Butler, who must be about 15 or 16, was promising' though did not yet have 'sufficient command of his voice'; he is said to be 'quite a good scholar, and looks a nice boy'. The winner read Joy for his chosen piece. The Lower School had to read the 'description of William at the Boyne [from Macaulay]; but they did not make much of it'. Also saw Sir Arthur Hort, who is 'mainly responsible for [the] first fifteen boys'; believes he is 'doing very well', and there have certainly been more scholarships awarded to Harrow boys over the last few years. Very sad they have 'thought it necessary to dry up the Grove pond'; supposes it was a 'great nuisance and expense'.

They hope to see Sir George before long, and also that Caroline will come to Dorking around the end of the month.

Upway Corner, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks. -- Thanks him for his kind letter, is proud of Trinity, "what a lot you and I owe to our dear G. M. 'T.'"

Typescript letter, signed. Prompted by a footnote in Butler's memoir, he shares a story about William Whewell told him by Canon R. P. Pelly, about being put in his place as an undergraduate when he attempted to make small talk while taking refuge from a shower under the same tree as the Master.

Includes minutes of the Third Meeting of the Panel of Advisors for Broadcast National Lectures, which were held at Savoy Hill, London, 12 June 1930.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Is sorry to hear about Sir James' health, is enclosing a subscription for the bibliography.

Includes brief correspondence re Thomson's Fison Memorial Lecture

Will not communicate with Professor Gibson on an unspecified matter; has explained his reasons for not doing so to Mr Priestley, who 'was so kind to promise me that he would explain them to you, in case you should want to know them, as I should find great difficulties in explaining them personally'

Will send on some letters to Julian as soon as he has an address. Julian will see he has got a 2.2 in his 'Mays' [examinations]; not bad, especially since [J.R.M.] Butler says he only just missed a 2:1. Bessie has gone on a week's trip to Guernsey and Jersey with Radcliffe, who is inspecting schools there. Hopes Julian did not have too rough a crossing, and is enjoying his time abroad. One of the letters is addressed to Julian Tryon; Julian should send it back to Trinity if it is not for him. Wonders if he found the 'Welcombe picture at Brusselles [by Gossaert, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels]. Sends his regards in a postscript to [Robin] Darwin.

Nine letters from Henry Montagu Butler and three from Agnata Butler; one sent from Harrow, the others from the Lodge at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mention in letter of 20 Dec. 1915 of their sons 'Jim and Gordon... now in "dug-outs"... within 150 yards of the Turkish trenches, exposed to incessant sniping and shrapnel. Their letters... are not only loving and vivid but always, especially perhaps Gordon's full of "laughter"...'

Agnata's third letter talks of the death of her husband.

J R M Butler is about to go in for The Craven Scholarship, Gordon and Nevile Butler are happy at Harrow, Lord Morley's Indian enterprise

Includes letters re Trinity College Commemoration Dinner, which was held on 5 December

Contains: verse epigraph, "You who can hear the victims crying...", by 'J. R. B' [J. R. M. Butler?]; the story of the play, by J. T. S[heppard]; photograph of 'The Provost of King's' [Sheppard]; photograph of P. A. S. Hadley; brief essay, "The Antigone of Sophocles"; dramatis personae; note on "The Performance at Athens in 1937", by G. M. Young; list of orchestra members; photograph of Geoffrey Wright; photograph of Camille Prior; production team; Greek Play Committee; list of Greek Plays performed at Cambridge still in print; material relating to Cambridge Arts Theatre,

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Thanks Robert for his 'jolly letter'; will re-read [Trollope's] "Framleigh Parsonage" [sic: "Framley..."] again soon, perhaps aloud to Caroline. They are currently alternating between "The Wreckers" [R. L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's "The Wrecker"?] and the "[Roman] Journal" of Gregorovius. Is himself reading Anatole France's "L'Orme du Mail", some of which he thinks as good as Balzac, just as aspects of "La Reine Pédauque" are 'like the best Voltaire'. In a postscript, says that he too voted for Jim Butler [for the Cambridge University constituency] but 'in such a General Election as this an "Independent" has no chance'.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Thanks Robert for his account of the 'lifelike, and significant, account of the Kingsway meeting'; this general election is 'the most novel, and perhaps the most pregnant and important election that ever took place in any Parliamentarily governed country'; it was brought about in a 'most singular' manner, and believes that everything turns on Lloyd George being 'curiously suited' to the task of ending the war, but 'absolutely unsuited - morally, intellectually, and by training' to 'even beginning to set the world, and the nation, to rights'. Very glad to be out of politics. Will vote for Jim Butler at Cambridge, as there is 'no contest' here, and four candidates at Wansbeck; best thing he can do is 'not offer any advice in the matter'.

Trinity College Cambridge - covering letter only, returning letters from Sir James George Frazer to his father Henry Montagu Butler. [Letters are FRAZ/1/4-21 in the collection.]

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Very pleased about Julian [that the operation on an umbilical hernia has gone well]. They had a very pleasant visit from Geoffrey [Young] who told them all about Robert and Charles; most interesting meeting him 'after his experiences of the last 18 months' [with the Friends' ambulance unit]. The Master [of Trinity, Henry Montagu Butler] has let them see 'two most bright and ideal letters from [his sons] Gordon and Jim about the evacuation of Gallipoli and their voyages'; compares them to 'young Athenian hoplites at Potidaea in the great days of Athens'; 'But nothing is too rare and good to be spent in the service of the country'.

Includes 14 pp carbon copy inscribed 'International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. Director's replies to questions put by Members of the Royal Society Committee, February 1919'.

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.