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death of Sir [ ] Burton, murder of Edith Cavell, Gordon Butler in Egypt, H C Moule preaching in Cambridge.

Rejoices at Moule's appointment as Bishop of Durham, B F Westcott [HGCM's predecessor] was a great influence on H M Butler, hopes Moule will be able to have some influence with the miners.

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Sends birthday greetings. ‘I suppose you went to see Kean, and enjoyed him very much.’ Describes measures taken by the men of Trinity to observe the meteor shower. Has been for a walk with Mathison. The new Master has given an eagle (lectern) to the Chapel. Has been told (mistakenly) that the Prince of Wales is dead.

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Coll: SS: Trin: Cantab:
Nov 17/66

My dear Papa

I wish you many many happy returns of the day, and that each one may give fairer hopes of its successors. Moreover I wish in particular that I may contribute to your happiness myself more than I have done before. I don’t know that I could wish you very much more than that I may be able to repay ever so small a part of what I owe you. So again, dear Papa, many many happy returns of the day.

I suppose you went to see Kean, and enjoyed him very much {1}. What did he play? We had great fun here looking at the meteors {2}. The Great Court was full of men who clapped and encored whenever there was a good display. The Pleiads were distinctly seen to give chase to one of the brightest, but the couldn’t catch him, and so returned to their places. Conybeare, Leeke {3}, & I, got well wrapped up and lay in respective gutters on the roof of the New Court, where we could see everything. Challis, the astronomer, thought the show was a very good one. I went for a walk with Mathison the other day; we were mutually affable. My bedmaker was surprised to see him call; she said he hadn’t done so since Mr Fitzwilliam was in the rooms, and then it was beautiful to see him with his head on that gentleman’s shoulder just as if he had been his father. “Was he a fellow-commoner?” said I. “Oh yes, sir.”—The tone of this was perfect; she hates Mathison because he dropped on to her for not being here when a certain freshman came up. The new Master has given an eagle to the Chapel for the lessons to be read from {4}. Somebody told me last night that the Prince of Wales was dead; I don’t know if it’s true {5}. With best love to dear Mama and all the little ones—as Moule {6} puts it, “with warmer love than this scrawl indicates”—believe me to be

Your very affectionate son
+W. K. Clifford.

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{1} There are no references in The Times to performances by Charles Kean during this month, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography records that he and his wife drew crowded houses in the provinces in September.

{2} A notable meteor shower occurred on the night of the 13th. See The Times, 12 Nov., p. 10; 15 Nov., p. 10, etc.

{3} Several Leekes were at Trinity at this time. It is unclear which one is referred to here.

{4} W. H. Thompson had been admitted as Master on 17 April. This ‘eagle’, or brass lectern, was presented to the college by Thompson and his wife. See Willis and Clark, Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, vol. ii, pp. 590-1.

{5} A telegram from St Petersburg scotching this rumour was printed in The Times on the 19th (p. 10).

{6} H. C. G. Moule.

Writes in relation to the death of Archbishop Benson. Asks Sidgwick to convey his sympathy to Mrs Benson. Relates how, a few months previously, he was introduced to her in London, and they had a conversation 'on a French religious book which had struck her.' Claims to have been very grateful for her kindness, and is anxious that his sympathies be passed on to her in her time of grief. Fears that it would be unkind to write to her and believes that from Sidgwick 'a word would convey this little message without the fear that the word would be a burthen.'

Title page drawn out in pencil but not yet inked in; the figure of a brick drawn out below the title has not had the initials of the members filled in on each face like the one for Vol. 2. Full title given as 'Proceedings of the Blissful Brotherhood of the Parallelepided ever hebdomadally dissembling'.

This volume contains papers given at meetings of the society in 1865; they are listed on the back of the title page by term and date (including the Long Vacation), with the initials of the author and the running page number (papers sometimes also have their own individual page numbers). Also included is the page number for the 'Keeper of the Archives' Biennial Report', presented on 1 Feb. 1866, and a list of elections to the society during 1865.

Papers are given by John H. I. Oakley, William P. Turnbull, William K. Clifford, Joseph A. Lobley, Duncan C. Tovey, Handley C. G. Moule, William D. Niven, Alfred E. Humphreys. Titles include 'The Saunterer', by J. H. I. Oakley, 'On Practical Joking' and 'On Female Education' by W. D. Niven, and 'On Fairy Tales' by J. Stuart.

Loose sheet at front of volume: 'Key to Names from Initials' [omits John Henry Ellis].

Mock definition of 'Parallelipiped', '... there be some do clepe this the Regular Bricke', from 'Ben Jonson's English Dictionary' facing title page. Full title given as 'Proceedings of the Blessed Confraternity of the Parallelepided in hebdomadal function assembled. Figure of brick drawn out below title, with the initials of one of the founders of the society - Handley C. G. Moule, Joseph A. Lobley, Duncan C. Tovey, [John] Henry Ellis, Charles B. Davies, John H. I. Oakley - written on each face. Quotations below: 'Of the tale of the bricks ye shall not diminish aught' [Exodus 5.8]; 'As atoms in one mass united mix, / So bricks attraction feel for kindred bricks' [Smith (1812), Rejected Addresses].

This volume contains papers given at meetings of the society in 1864; they are listed on the back of the title page by term and date (including the Long Vacation), with the initials of the author and the running page number. The initials of the original members are also written out on the page opposite, with a note recording an 'Election' in 'October Term', in which Clifford was elected to join the society when Henry Ellis left Cambridge.

Titles of papers given include 'On Hellenolatry', and 'On Organ-Grinding' by J. A. Lobley, and 'Devotional Feelings of a Heathen', by C. B. Davies. A paper given by H. C. G. Moule to the Classical Association at Durham, 26 May 1917 entitled 'The Classics as an influence in education and a joy in life' has been inserted before f. 176. It mentions 'the dear raftered attic in beloved Trinity' where the following paper was first read, and remembers the friends from the society of which he is now the only surviving member.