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The Nonesuch Press Ltd., 16 Great James Street, London, W.C.1. - The Press is thinking of publishing a new edition of Herodotus; he is not happy with the existing translations and he wonders if Trevelyan would be willing to do a new one. Thinks he has found an archaeologist to write the accompanying notes: a young man at the British School at Athens [A.W. Lawrence] . Asks if Trevelyan could come to discuss the project (not on Thursday afternoon as he is sitting to Henry Lamb): it would be a very big job but his mother [Constance Garnett] translated "War and Peace" in a year.

From the Rector, Exeter College, Oxford - Thanks for the telegram [for his 70th birthday]; thinks they are making too much fuss over him; sends a copy of the portrait by Henry Lamb, notes one critic says, 'I look as if I had lost my pipe'.

9 letters from various people making suggestions of portrait artists to be used in making portraits of Trinity Fellows under of the scheme funded by the Memorials Committee. The letters are from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., W. R. M. Lamb, Henry M. Hake, A. M. Hind, C. J. Holmes, Henry Tonks, Edward Maufe, David, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, and W. J. W. B. Artists discussed include G. L. Brockhurst, Francis Dodd, Paul Drury, Eric Gill, R. Gleadowe, Eric Kennington, Winifrede Knight, Henry Lamb, W. Rothenstein, F. E. Jackson, A. K. Lawrence, T. W. Monnington, Randolph Schwabe, and Leon Underwood. Accompanied by two sheets of notes.

One letter to Gow from Horace Lamb, and four from his son and portraitist Henry Lamb.

Two letters from Henry Lamb, the later letter referring to two drawings, one in profile and one full face, with two letters from Dampier, including one in which he states that his family is not much pleased with either drawing, but if the College should prefer the profile, he would like to know the price of the full face portrait.