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Elsieshields, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire.—Hopes to attend the Cranium Club dinner. Was interested to hear of his meeting with the Master of Trinity (Sir Michael Atiyah); he (Runciman) usually stays at the Master's Lodge when he visits Cambridge.

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Elsieshields, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, DG11 1LY
25.5.96

Dear Stephen,

Thank you very much for your letter. I certainly hope to come to the Cranium dinner on 13 June.

I am interested to hear of your encounter with the present Master of Trinity. I always stay with him now when I visit Cambridge. Years ago Rab Butler, when Master, laid it down that I should always be housed at the Master’s Lodge whenever I came to Cambridge; and subsequent Masters, Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley and now Michael Atiyah, have hospitably continued the tradition. It is perhaps quite suitable, as I am now—and have been for several years—the senior Honorary Fellow of the College. But in fact I don’t visit Cambridge very often—apart from Feasts at Trinity—and, what with extreme old age and decrepitude, my visits may become even fewer. But I hope that some day I may have the chance of visiting Lammas House. In the meantime I have happy memories of my all too brief visit to you at Canonbury.

Yours
Steven

[Direction on envelope:] Stephen Keynes, Esq., 14 Canonbury Park South, London N1

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The envelope is postmarked 28 May 1996.