Calcutta. - Letter of introduction to Arindam Dutt, who is coming to England to study for the Bar and join a British university; his father, Charu Dutt, a retired Civil Service man is 'one of the finest men in India'. Young Dutt will try to get into Cambridge through the 'usual wearisome official channels' such as the India High Commissioner's office; should he fail, Suhrawardy asks if Trevelyan can give him an introduction to Lowes Dickinson, Keynes, or his brother [George]. Also asks if Trevelyan can invite Dutt to his club; fears he will have a lonely time at first. Has been enjoying "The Fountain", by [Charles] Morgan, which has much about Holland and the Dutch; thought Bessie might be interested, if she has not read it. A postscript notes that their mutual friend Chanda has married young Dutt's only sister.
Over 40 poems, many represented by both original MS and typescript drafts, others as MS or typescripts only, some addressed to friends and family identified only by their initials. The typescripts were prepared by Jennings' sister Mabel Harwood, and later interleaved by his daughter Bridget Jennings with the correlating MS drafts. Accompanied by two printed journals, Poetry of today, 1940, with four poems signed H. B. J. and The poetry review, November-December 1940 with one poem signed H. B. J. Accompanied by a letter from Charles Morgan to Miss Jennings dated 1 Feb. 1951 about her father's poems, and praising in particular the sonnet, "As one that takes for world a little room". Four of the MS poems were part of letters sent by Harold to his sister Mabel and to his daughter.
Jennings, Harold Bertie (1869-1950) philologist and poet