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Windsor Castle - Arrangements to visit on 19 March, mentioning cramped quarters in the Gatehouse of Edward III, and a need to cancel the luncheon due to stagnant water discovered under the floorboards; thanks her for nice words about a lecture given by her husband [John William Fortescue].

Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Very sorry not to see Bessie yesterday, and for the reason; hope the move will 'not be long held up by her lumbago'. [Mary's] 'was a very delightful wedding, thoroughly "Trinity"': the Master signed the register, [Reginald?] Parry was there, and A. E. Housman 'honoured the chapel with his presence'. There were about two hundred guests; Mary looked 'very dignified and beautiful'; the reception at home went well and Bessie's present of 'the Italian bowl' was admired; Aunt Annie [Philips] 'was in great form'. The newly-weds are in Italy now until 18 October. Very glad Bob likes his book ["England Under Queen Anne: Blenheim" - always pays 'special attention' to his judgments - and that he likes Mary's ["William the Third and the defence of Holland, 1672-4"]. He himself has a 'great admiration' for it; Mary has had letters 'highly praising it' from Sapitze [?] and Sir John Fortescue, who are 'the two people most capable of judging' the political and military aspects respectively.

Letters dated 9 Oct. 1923, 12 & 17 Oct. 1923, and 27 Mar [1926?]. Accompanied by a draft of a letter from Henry Jackson to his brother Percy dated 11 Oct. 1909, and a letter from H. M. Adams to Henry Cholmondeley Jackson dated 27 May 1947.

Two letters to A. S. F. Gow from Fortescue, including one in which he hopes the artist (Eric Gill) "is not a conceited & confident young man because, for some reason which I cannot divine, I am a difficult subject..." With two letters from Eric Gill to Gow dated 18 Dec. 1926 and 26 Feb. 1927, the second mentioning that while he was drawing Fortescue was reading proofs and Gill thinks "the expression of the eye rather convey the critical look of a proof reader."