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4 St. Peter's Terrace, Cambridge - Thanks her for her cheque; it certainly looks as if Cambridge was responsible for her ailments, and is glad to hear they have left her now that she is away from Cambridge.

Includes testimonials and printed material. Some letters have explicatory notes by Florence Image. Almost 40 letters from Henry Jackson. Several letters from or relating to: H. M. Butler (some to Florence Image), A. V. Verrall, W. Aldis Wright, W. H. Thompson, Duncan Crookes Tovey and other members of his family, J. G. Frazer, J. N. Dalton, and J. W. L. Glaisher; for other correspondents see names below. Some letters by Image himself to various correspondents, and printed items: an unsigned printed letter opposing the education of choristers (a parody) dated 1877; a Greek text with an English translation, Fragmentum incerti ex Hēthikophysikolērois with a date of 20 Oct. 1848 written at the top of the first page; comedic verses about Thomas Huxley in English and Greek; and a Latin poem about Como, a toy belonging to the Butler children James, Gordon, and Nevile, by Montagu Butler, dated April 1897; and two notices about the non-placeting of the Grace for the Duke of York's degree in 1894.

Thanks Nora for the copy of Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, which he has just begun to read; calls it excellent, and praises it for allowing Henry to 'speak for himself'. Refers to the admiration he had for Henry during his lifetime. Observes that Henry wrote several letters in a similar tone to that of the one he [Venn] received at the beginning of June 1900. Recalls that he himself was just recovering from a serious illness in a London hotel when Bradbury mentioned that Henry was also very ill; he managed to write a few lines, and got in reply a letter, which he still has in his possession.

4 St Peter's Terrace, Cambridge. Undated [postmark: March 1904] - Concerning the anaphrodisiac quality of hemlock, with a transcript of an enclosure from W. E. Dixon to Professor Bradbury dated Mar. 17/04 confirming this.