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University College, Gower Street, London. - '... three frivolous poems... I have had some copies bound'.

'To A. E. Houman, most Ovidian man alive'. Note from Palmer?

Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge - Is part of a group of people who are trying to bring pressure to bear on the German government, which has begun reviewing dossiers of academics and dismissing them. Sends a document for Frazer to sign which will be presented to the German government and which will be signed by the Vice Chancellor, the Master of Trinity, and Lord Rutherford; they are also asking Eddington, Hopkins, Pope, Housman, and he will sign himself.

The School House, Bromsgrove, Worcs. - Re the '...American edition of the Housman Supplement'...'

Longmeadow, Street, Somerset. - 'Here is a copy of AEH...'.

Pinbury Park, Cirencester - Regrets he cannot speak at the meeting on 28 January; did not know Housman at all well, was interested to read her letter about him.

Sent from Catshill, near Bromsgrove. - Card labelled 'The Clock House - In aid of the Church Funds' [The Clock House, also known as Fockbury House, was a childhood home of A. E. Housman].

With pencil note on back: '"Ludlow Tower". This photograph was taken at 4 pm on a Monday afternoon in the summer of 1936 & sure enough the chimes were playing "See the conquering hero comes'. The tower and its bells feature in A. E. Housman's poem The Recruit.

There is also a stamp on the back, 'Rose Magna Print', and a reference number, '28A'.

Letters dated
28 Nov. 1912
29 Jan. 1913
22 Apr. 1913
11 Feb. 1914
8 Mar. 1914
25 Feb. 1916
30 Oct. 1916

Entitled 'A Housman Couplet'.

Declining the offer of Public Orator of the University of Cambridge.

Oak Lodge, Exmouth. - Notes Gow's 'kind gift of the bound volume of your Sketch [a memoir of her brother A. E. Housman'; encloses postcard of painting of Humphrey Holden, which 'hung in the Trinity College room of A. E. Housman' and is now owned by Mrs Symons.

(On the front of the menu is a photograph of the Great Gate at Trinity. The signatures include those of a number of Fellows of the College besides Housman, including F. A. Simpson, R. St John Parry, Henry Jackson, V. H. Stanton, W. C. Dampier Whetham, Sedley Taylor, R. Vere Laurence, J. Ellis McTaggart, H. McLeod Innes, Gaillard Lapsley, F. R. Tennant, and F. G. Hopkins.)

Christ's College, Cambridge. - Regarding Gow's 'valuable sketch of A. E. Housman'.

British Museum, London, W.C.1. - Concerning the diaries of A. E. Housman - information which 'will make it possible for you to answer Andrew Gow'.

Letters dated
11 Feb. 1920
15 Feb. 1920
29 Mar. 1920
7 Jan. 1922
22 Feb. 1922
20 June 1922

Magdalene College, Cambridge - In the letter of 3 Dec. Housman has suggested that Frazer be asked to write an obituary notice of William Wyse for 'The Times' as none has appeared. In the letter of 30 Dec. thanks him for his 'beautiful account' of William Wyse; 'It has given real pleasure to those who knew him intimately - & some of them are hard to please!'

Croeswylan, Oswestry, Shropshire. - Reproduces a letter from A. E. Housman to the Earl of Oxford.

100 Holywell Street. - 'Thank you... for Housman'

Typed pages containing Gow's notes and [Laurence's?] corrections. Accompanied by a typescript letter from Gow to Philip Gaskell [Librarian of Trinity College Library] dated 16 June 1968 and an undated four page letter from Peter [F. L. Lucas] to Gow about the poems at the back.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Thanks him for his congratulatory note [on becoming the first holder of the Laurence Chair of Classical Archaeology], which means a drop in income but more leisure for research; suffered acute rheumatism with temporary facial paralysis in the summer, had to work less last term but is recovered; has made progress on 'Zeus'; mentioned to Housman Frazer's praise of "Manilius", which pleased him; praises Frazer's gift of combining minute attention to detail with a sense of breadth and grandeur'; praises the 'Fasti'. Accompanied by the envelope.

16 Madingley Road, Cambridge; Burrows Hill, Comshall, Surrey; Conduit Head, Madingley Road, Cambridge - Four letters concerning the published address on the foundation of the Frazer Lectureship, written by A. E. Housman, and arrangements to publish Frazer's address of thanks.