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The Mill House, Westcott, Dorking. - Discusses a passage of Thucydides, and Macaulay's criticisms of Lucan, which 'are among his very best... He never fails to choose out the best passages, and to laugh at the bad ones'. Robert 'has a great affection for Lucan, perhaps out of proportion to his merits', partly because after Catullus he was the first classical author he studied 'on my own adventure, and so, as it were, with passion', and partly because he read it at school with Bowen, who 'delighted in Lucan, and thought his cleverness and brilliance... apart from all others'.

The weather is 'desperately and oppressively hot'; he and Bessie are going to Borrowdale before coming to Wallington. Hopes 'London is not going to be visited for its sins like New York' [perhaps a reference to the stock market crash?]

Enjoying the Long Vacation in Cambridge, idleness banished from Cambridge, reading Thucydides and doing composition with Shilleto, weekly examinations in classics and mathematics

King's fall from his horse and the sinking of the ship that had taken him to France are untoward events besides the German advance through Serbia, encourages G K M Butler to read passages from Thucydides.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Egerton MS 2624, with a typescript description and MS notes laid in loose.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Egerton MS 2625, with a page of typescript notes laid in loose.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Notebook with just 2 pp. of notes, a collation of Parisinus grec 1637.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Vindob. hist. gr. 33.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Basel E.III.4.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Utrecht Gr. 13. With a typescript note from A. S. F. Gow to Powell dated 9 June 1935, two typescript drafts of "A lost manuscript of Cicero", one of them corrected, and one sheet of notes laid in loose.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Notebook with just 1 p. of notes, a collation of Parisinus Coislinianus 317.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Parisinus suppl. Gr. 256.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Marseilles Aa 1.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Codex Neapolitanus Graecus III.B.6.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Corpus Christ College, 80.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Neap. gr. III.B.9.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Parmensis, with typescript notes headed 'p, Parmensis' with note written across the front 'As p is now known to be a simple copy of r, it ceases to be of interest to the constitution of the text'.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Neap. gr. III.B.5.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Monacensis gr. 126.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Neap. gr. III.B.7, with a typescript draft headed 'Manuscript r (Neap. gr. III.B.7)' laid in loose.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Taurinensis (B.III.20). Accompanied by a postcard and a letter from Gino Tamburini of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino to Powell dated Dec. 1933 and July 1934.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Tolouse 802, with 1 tracing sheet laid in loose.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Berlin Hamilton 634, with a letter from E. R. Dodds to Powell dated 22 Nov. 1937 forwarding a letter from Raymond Klibansky to Professor Dodds, and a letter from Rendel Harris to Powell dated 23 Nov. 1937, and a draft[?] of a letter from Powell to [?] Harrison dated 24 Nov. 1937.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942.

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Berlin quarto gr. 71.