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Trinity College | Cambridge
17 Aug. 1935

My dear Gerald,

I hardly know whether it is more satisfactory that you came out top in the Kenya competition or annoying that you were cheated of your reward. It is not the first time in the history of England and Africa that the Colonial Office has been set at nought by unfaithful servants.

I am rather better than I have been, and hope to be amused by my tour in France. I am going to Dauphiné and Savoy, and leave here on the 26th.

I hope that you will enjoy your ten days with the Irish Guards, and be refreshed by them after all your hard work.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | St Thomas’s Hospital | London S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. Silver Jubilee stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 8 p.m. on 17 August.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
27 May 1933

My dear Gerald,

As far as I can make out, I should say it would be more prudent to keep on at your medical course instead of taking up a job at geology which does not promise permanency. But of course you have to reckon with the possibility that I may die, in which case, as I told you, my assistance would come to an end.

I am not going to sign the lecture for anybody, as I do not regard it as one of my good works.

I am glad you are going to the Irish Guards again.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, half torn away, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 27 May.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
16 Aug. 1932

My dear Gerald,

I am glad to hear of your whereabouts, and that you enjoy your life there, though how you attached yourself to the Guards, and why it is the Irish Guards, are mysteries which I will not trouble you to explain. In this weather Pirbright Camp is certainly a better place than London.

I spent half of June in France and most of July with my brothers in Worcestershire and Somerset. Now I do not expect much to take any more holiday.

When you get back perhaps you would come here and stay with me some week-end, though after the 20th Cambridge will be very empty.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | Att./1st Bn. Irish Guards | Brigade of Guards Officer’s Mess | Pirbright Camp | Woking

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 16 August.