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Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge - Is part of a group of people who are trying to bring pressure to bear on the German government, which has begun reviewing dossiers of academics and dismissing them. Sends a document for Frazer to sign which will be presented to the German government and which will be signed by the Vice Chancellor, the Master of Trinity, and Lord Rutherford; they are also asking Eddington, Hopkins, Pope, Housman, and he will sign himself.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Has considered Lady Frazer's suggestion that Sir James' pension be increased, finds they are unable to do this according to College Statutes; suggests using the William Wyse Studentship Fund to make a grant of £100 for three years to pay for secretarial assistance.

Printed letter enclosing a copy of a circular letter from Lord Ullswater, the Chairman of the University of Cambridge Commissioners, and announcing a series of meetings on Saturday afternoons during the present term relating to the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission.

'W. K. Clifford' stamped in gold on front cover, with a small oval containing the words 'Trin. Coll. Camb.' at the foot. Stamped 'John P. Gray & Son Ltd', the binders, at the top of the inside front cover; bookplate giving provenance pasted below.

Letter, 8 Oct. 1923, from Lucy Clifford to J. J. Thomson tipped in at front, on headed notepaper for 7 Chilworth Street, W.2. Sir Frederick Pollock thinks Trinity 'would care to possess this MS'; she would be very proud if this were the case, and believes her husband would have been too. Believes it was written in 1877 and published in the Fortnightly Review [in fact, it appeared in the Oct. 1977 of the Nineteenth Century; it later appeared in the collected works edited by Pollock and Leslie Stephen. This is the 'first & only copy'. Describes her husband's usual habits when writing a paper, working through the night with a few breaks to exercise with 'the Indian clubs' and always finishing 'at the last possible moment for publication'. Wishes 'his other MSS. had been saved; but I have no knowledge of them, & even his autograph is very scare owing to the fact that he seldom signed it in full. Hopes Thomson remembers their meeting last year at a dinner given by Mrs Roy Batty [Thomson's sister in law] before a Royal Institution Lecture, and their discussion of Mrs Oliphant's novels.

'XIXth Century' written in blue crayon on first sheet of the essay, perhaps relating to Pollock & Stephen's edition of Clifford's papers, published in 1879; 'R. Young' written in pencil at the top right. 'One of W. K. Clifford's MSS' written in pencil on the back of f. 2. Clifford's name and address (26 Colville Road, Bayswater) on the back of the last sheet.

Trinity Lodge - Has been hoping to see him in person but as he has not he writes his congratulations; finds the award thoroughly well-deserved, and is pleased for the Trinity: 'I do not think any College ever had a day like we had on New Years day when our Fellows got two O.M.'s and a Knighthood'. Accompanied by the envelope.

Jackson's letter, 19 Aug. 1919, to the Master [J. J. Thompson] is typed out after the printed birthday wishes and list of fellows, as is an extract of a letter from A. E. Housman to [Reginald St. John] Parry, 3 Jan. 1920: 'Not if the stipend were £150, 000 instead of £150 would I be Public Orator... The letter to Jackson last year laid waste three whole mornings...'

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio (Corse) - Thanks her for her happy letter; tells her it was Campana who was Consul général in London when they went to lunch with M. de Fleuriau; suggests she photograph the drawing of Sir James and send it to her friends; rejoices in the success of the books 'Pasha the Pom' and the first volume of the 'Anthologia Anthropologica'; is happy she let him send his reminiscences to [Sir Joseph John?] Thomson and to [Robert Ranulph?] Marett; has sent Catherine [Giamarchi] her note.

Letters concerning classical studies and Trinity College business and social life, with a small group of printed material and testimonials. Some letters have explicatory notes by Florence Image, and almost 40 letters are from Henry Jackson. Other correspondents with several letters each are 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 of the letters are by Image himself to various correspondents.

The printed items are: an unsigned printed letter opposing the education of choristers (a parody) dated 1877; a Greek text with an English translation, Fragmentum incerti ex Hēthikophysikolērois mocking the new Triposes, with a date of 20 Oct. 1848 written at the top of the first page ; comedic verses about Thomas Huxley in English and Greek; two notices about the non-placeting of the Grace for the Duke of York's degree in 1894; and a Latin poem about Como, a toy belonging to the Butler children James, Gordon, and Nevile, by Montagu Butler, dated April 1897. A small group of testimonials at the end of the collection were written in support of Image's candidacy to become Undermaster of the Upper School of Dulwich College in 1869.

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse - Is confused why she is in Harrogate, when he thought her in Stamford; received a note of thanks from J. J. Thomson for his note congratulating him on his son's Nobel prize. Reacts to what she says of the maitre d'hotel at the Crown. He would have liked to hear the Admiral [?] talk on rowing and on Scotland fifty years before; his sister would have preferred to live at the beginning of the Victorian age, and Catherine [Giamarchi, a niece] is the opposite.

Trinity College Library, Cambridge - Encloses a formal acknowledgment of the gift of Frazer's book ['Totemica'?, gift acknowledgment not enclosed]; the Master [Thomson] wishes to express his thanks but has not written owing to the amount of work occasioned by Lord Rutherford's death.

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.