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Personal material of A. S. F. Gow is catalogued under (A): this includes early biographical material he compiled for his nephew Sir Michael Gow, two photograph albums, and correspondence, particularly letters (1907-1920) from William Ridgeway. There is also a handwritten biography, perhaps by Gow, of Cyril Mowbray Wells with other material relating to Wells.

Academic papers, (B), include notes on classical texts, (?1928-1951) some for lectures given by Gow, and items found with the notes, as well as part of Gow's dissertation for a Fellowship at Trinity in 1911.

(C) comprises articles by Gow,"A Cambridge Seal Box of the Seventeenth Century" (1934); "Sir Stephen Gaselee, 1882-1943 - a memoir" (1944), with related material including correspondence, press clippings and so on. (E) consists of items removed from the printed books left by Gow to Trinity College Library (now catalogued under the shelfmark GOW), including correspondence, photographs, press clippings and reviews.

Material related to A. E. Housman (F) includes Gow's "A. E. Housman - a biographical sketch" (1936), along with related items such as corrections, reviews (1936-1938) and correspondence (1936-1963); a letter to J. W. Mackail by Housman, 25 Aug 1922, with a draft copy of his "Last Poems" and comments on it, and portrait sketches of Housman, some inscribed to him by William Rothenstein. There are also newspaper reviews of Housman's inaugural lecture as Professor of Latin at University College (1892, published in 1937) and of his edition of Manilius (1938). Items relating to Housman removed from printed books left by Gow to the Library also fall under this class; several of these are letters from the authors of books on Housman to Gow, such as Laurence Housman, Percy Withers, John Carter and Henry Maas.

Items related to academic societies and institutions fall under the (G) class: reports by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1899-1904) and the British School at Rome (1904-1919); accounts of excavations in Cyprus from the Journal of Hellenic Studies (1887-1891).

Finally, there are six bound volumes with Gow's bookplate (H) containing transcripts of Housman's lectures. Five are typescript: three transcripts of Housman's notes now in Cambridge University Library, "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism" (containing note of thanks to Gow from 'B[ertram] G[oulding] B[rown]), "Ovid, Heroides I-IV" and "Ovid, Heroides VI-XII" (with additional MS notes by Gow); "Horace, Odes I-III" (transcript of notes taken at Housman's lectures by S. L. Franklyn in 1932, corrections from Housman's lecture notes by B. Goulding Brown 1940-1941); "Plautus, Captivi" (transcript of Housman's notes lent to assessors in the Classical Tripos part II, 1932). The last volume contains MS lecture notes by Gow on Housman's "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism" (1292), "Notes on Martial", and an index; loose inside, a printed sheet of extracts from Manilius', with M. S. additions in pencil, and M.S. notes by Housman.

Trinity College, Cambridge - He wishes the news about Sir James was better; the recent sales numbers 'must have something like the effect of a mattress to lie on, keeping one from contact with the cold hard ground'; will not translate Renan, doesn't think he could do it well enough; is not very strong, his life should have ended two years before; recently travelled to Savoy and Dauphiné; suspects her of staying at Buckingham Palace; the Sedgwick elm in the roundabout was blown down in a storm.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Isn't well enough to see Professor Strauman; was in a nursing home in June for weakness of the heart, is in a low nervous condition.

[as from Trinity College, Cambridge] - Thanks her for her letter, wishes the news of Sir James was better; can not nor wishes to stop American anthologies from including poems from 'A Shropshire Lad' but will stop reprints in Europe; is glad to hear there is a Festschrift on the way.

On the verso of the last page, 'Mrs Jacques Huber, 12 Carmen Str.' is written in Lady Frazer's hand.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks for the Scotch cake; offers best wishes for 1933; has stayed in 'her hotel' in Bath and likes it even in winter.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Many thanks for her effort 'on behalf of my proper feeding'; she looks benign in the picture, hopes the interior corresponds.

List of Housman MSS in Adversaria volumes at Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

7 Villa Madrid, Neuilly-sur-Seine. - About the sketch of Housman.

One cutting from the Times and one from the Saturday Review, the others from classical journals: Classical Review; Classical Journal; Classical Philology.

23 Sheffield Terrace, W.8. - Praises the review of Gow's Housman book in the [Times] Literary Supplement.

Review of Watson's book from the Times Literary Supplement.

In folder.

Allard Pierson Stichting, Archaeologisch-Historisch Instituut der Universiteit van Amsterdam. - '...the change in the use of the diminutive coincides with the rise of Augustan art proper...'

Source unknown, perhaps The Times.

The Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Maas was pleased with Greg’s comments on McKerrow’s Prolegomena and suggests he read Housman’s Manilius.

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Transcript

The Clarendon Press, Oxford
11 November, 1940.

Please quote 4641/K.S.

My dear Greg,

Maas, who is very keen on the theory of textual criticism, was greatly pleased with your comments on McKerrow’s Prolegomena, and will later on offer some comments on the points at issue. He asked whether you had Housman’s Manilius Vol. I because sections IV and V challenge the sacredness of the copytext. This caused me to read Housman’s Introduction, which I began with great pleasure in his wit and brilliance, but ended with distaste because of his ill-concealed malevolence, which is not often found in great scholars.

Yours sincerely,
Kenneth Sisam

Dr. W. W. Greg.

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{1} Paul Maas, the German classical scholar and Byzantinist, was the author of an influential work on textual criticism first published in German as Textkritik (Taubner: Leipzig and Berlin, 1927), when it formed Part VII of Gercke-Norden’s Einleitung in die Altertumswissenschaft, Vol. I. An English translation by Barbara Flower was published in 1958 under the title Textual Criticism. When Maas fled Nazi Germany in 1939 Sisam arranged for a post to be created for him at the Clarendon Press. He was briefly interned on the Isle of Man in the summer of 1940 (ODNB), but evidently returned to the OUP shortly afterwards.

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 7 March 1915 - Thanks him for the Addison ['Essays'] volumes; finds him a 'terribly industrious humourist'; is going to the Riviera, thankfully cleared of Germans; Whewell's Court is a barracks, with 'step-dancing' soldiers in the rooms above him.

Contains a poem, "King's, Cambridge", by R. G. Bosanquet; "Garrick and the Histrionic Temperament" by Desmond MacCarthy; poems, "Lines written after re-reading Housman's "The name and nature of Poetry" and "Cry of the Gentle", by Geoffrey Eley; "2. Ancestor Worship" by Sarah Shorey Gill, with a note at the head to her grand-daughter Polly"; poem, '"Mosses' Wood, Leith Hill", by V. S. Wainwright; poem, "Escape", by Clifford Dyment; poem, "A Reaper - To The Winds" (a translation from Joachim du Bellay); poem, "On the Rejection of Some Lines on Liberty", by Jacob Hornstein.

Trinity College. Dated 21 May 1913 - Describes the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin in Naples in 1897, with an illumination, the blowing of penny trumpets, falling asleep to the sound of barrel-organs, waked by dynamite rockets at 4, 'the only step possible beyond this is assassination, which accordingly takes place about peep of day. I forget now the number of the slain, but I think the average is eight or ten, and I know that in honour of my presence they murdered a few more than ususal'; encloses an extract about Satan in Scotland [not transcribed]; accompanied by a description of the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin in 1906 on Capri.

On the publication of the lecture in 1937, with a note by Gow. Includes publications from the US and India; list available.

National Portrait Gallery, London, WC2. - re portraits of Housman

Wolverhampton Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1902, Gresham Chambers, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton. - Thanks Trevelyan for his letter and the loan of the books. Asks if he knows Yeats' book "The Shadowy Waters"; thinks it contains some of his best work and would be happy to lend it. Thanks for the offer of Housman; knows his books but cannot get much of what he wants out of them. Feels that the poem he wants to write about the Mediterranean pirates will have to wait unless he can find information he needs in Arrian, recommended by Binyon. Can't read Latin even with a crib, as he does not have 'the gift of tongues' and left school at thirteen. Reads French easily and has taken to reading the classics in French. Is trying to learn Irish, a 'dreadful tongue'. Has another book by Gorki, "Three Men" ["Three of Them / Трое"] which he thinks is far better than the short stories and will lend whenever Trevelyan wishes.

All Souls College, Oxford. - Has read Gow's Sketch.