[Dunmoyle, Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone]. Wargaming with J R M Butler and "Ronnie", horseriding.
Typed copy. S S Canada. Met J R M Butler on The Aragon for lunch.
Birnam. Quotes from Ezekiel Ch 37, treatment of Fritz Sommerkamp contrasts with that of Nevile Butler.
Death of H M Butler.
Typed copy. Reserve Trenches. Flooded out of the trenches, dug-out untenable, found shelter in J R M Butler's dug-out, has been made temporarily Brigade Machine Gun Officer.
Funeral of H M Butler, Agnata Butler to take a house in Cambridge on a temporary basis.
Typed copy. Intermediate Base, M E F. Is to travel to Egypt, charms of active service, Lemnos, examples of red-tape, army should have paid officers more to attract better men, Archie Don.
Typed copy. Luxor Hotel, Luxor. To embark for Philae and Aswan, visits to Egyptian antiquities, camel riding.
Typed copy. Turf Club, Cairo. Tour of the pyramids, trip into the desert, does not know why Nevile Butler did not join the Scots Horse.
Typed copy. Turf Club, Cairo. Machine gun examination, description of his departure from Mudros, provision of beer.
Typed copy. El Quantara. Is entitled to a horse, "bubbly-guns".
Typed copy. El Quantara. Bombing and gunnery excercises.
Typed copy. [El Quantara]. City buried in the sands close by.
Typed copy. [El Quantara]. Visited J R M Butler at the front, Webb equipment.
Dined with M R James who is bored of the Vice-Chancellorship, argument between Garrett and Fitzgerald when climbing, "wild Welsh Tory" at the Union, Magpie and Stump, Robert Law "a capital fellow though he belongs to a damned Trades Union", Alf Noyes had a heated debate with Charles Waldstein, Nevile Butler developing into a good soccer player, Temperley a poor lecturer, Simpson good in matter but bad in delivery, Political Science "a shocking hard subject", Cornford "a positive danger to the public".
Photograph by J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge.
Photograph by J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge
One photograph identified as H. M. Butler and Harold Butler, and the other photograph features a man holding James and Nevile Butler? by the ears.
Borrowdale. Arrived at Keswick, time with George Trevelyan, disappointed not to see N M Butler before he left for Germany.
on coming up to Trinity is shocked by the amount of work expected, rowing stroke in a First Trinity boat for the bumps, fours final between 1st Trinity and 3rd Trinity, field day with the [?Cavalry reserve]: [Trinity College]
N. M. Butler's name as Head of School and Head of Headmaster's House has been struck through in pen.
Walking tour in Scotland
Two copies of the same image. Cabinet card photograph is stamped Scott & Wilkinson, Camden Studio, Cambridge.
N M Butler failed to win English Essay Prize, G K M Butler rowed up to Clayhithe after the bumps, description of bumps racing, King's and Trinity Balls
Two copies of the same photograph, one of them a delivered postcard dated 28 June 1913 addressed to C. L. Ramsay.
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.
Photograph taken and signed by J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge.
Photograph taken and signed by J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge.
Doncaster. Hopes Nevile Butler will soon be freed, to be billeted soon, perhaps at Wentworth, manouvres.