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10 Chadlington Road, Oxford.—Offers to support the new journal.

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10 Chadlington Road, Oxford
Dec. 29 1923

Dear Chambers,

Chapman has just shown me a proof of a leaflet you are sending out about a new Journal of English Studies; & I see you ask for support. I should be delighted to stand in with you, & do anything I could to help. I have long wished for such a periodical, but was never in a position to bring it about.

By issuing this leaflet you start the New Year well.

Yrs ever
George Gordon

(Oxford.)—Gordon would probably join the panel, if asked.

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P 4509

28 Dec. 1923. {1}

My dear Chambers,

I spoke to Gordon—I hope this was not indiscreet, as I had already heard a good deal from Simpson and from McKerrow. I think he would go on the panel if you asked him, and I think he would be worth having. He has, I believe, a wider range than anyone—now W.P. is gone {2}—being a very good classic and a respectable medievalist as well as thoroughly at home in all the modern periods.

But please regard this as no more than a well-intentioned suggestion, which does not expect any answer.

Yours sincerely
R. W. Chapman

E. K. Chambers Esq.

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Letter-head of The Clarendon Press, Oxford. The printed address has been struck through.

{1} The first two figures of the year are printed.

{2} W. P. Ker, who died on 17 July.

Board of Education.—Encloses letters from some of those invited to join the advisory panel, and suggests an alteration to the prospectus.

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Board of Education
1 Jan. 1924

Dear McKerrow,

Elton, Chapman, and Miss Morley agree to join our panel. I think you had better file and keep the letters I enclose. We are asking Gordon; are we not?

Elton’s letter partly concerns other matters, but he says

“I shall be happy to join your panel and do what I can, but could not write much, being deeply booked for some time ahead. The Review is much wanted and the idea excellent.”

I also send Bradley’s letter. Perhaps we can turn the wording of the Prospectus, when we print it off, so as to leave room for the names of those in like case. From Miss Spurgeon I have not heard yet.

Yrs sincerely
E. K. Chambers

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This letter was accompanied by letters to Chambers from Edith J. Morley, R. W. Chapman, George S. Gordon, and A. C. Bradley (MCKW A3/8b–f).

Magdalen College, Oxford - Thanks her for the reply to his query [Item 78], would not have bothered Sir James if he had known of his eyesight troubles; would like to subscribe to the bibliography and will urge the college librarian to subscribe as well, does not understand the abstention of the British Academy; responds to her assertion that his literary fame is overshadowed by his reputation as an anthropologist, and hopes that the work of his friends to procure him a Nobel Prize may prove successful; is glad to hear that Oxford has responded well to the subscription drive. [Letter is missing a middle sheet?]

Magdalen College, Oxford - Asks if there is any grounds for believing that the 'low road' in 'you take the high road and I'll take the low road' is a reference to the underworld.

10 Chadlington Rd., Oxford and Magdalen College, Oxford - In the letter of 22 July 1927, he thanks her for her letter, and for the promise of a manuscript for the Bodleian Library; in the second letter dated 27 Jan. 1930 he thanks her for the gift of the manuscript to the Bodleian.

Merton College, Oxford - Acting on behalf of the Bodleian, Gordon asks Frazer to donate an original MS.

(Unsigned.)

University of London.—Wyld has intimated that he would like to be added to the advisory panel.

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University of London, University College,
Gower Street, London, W.C.1
Feb 1 1924

Dear McKerrow

H. C. Wyld writes in a letter to a friend of mine

“I dont know what it is he asks me to join, but I am sure that if he approves of it it will not commit me to a recognition of the Soviet Government, nor to membership of the Sanhedrin, nor any other movement likely to strike a blow at Church or State”

So with perfect confidence you may add him to the list. That completes my bag of Wyld & Gordon: Chadwick cries off as too busy.

Yours sincerely
R W Chambers

110 Banbury Road, Oxford.—Thanks him for advising him of Parker’s views [on humanism]. Olgiati’s observations on the relationship between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance seem ingenuous, while, contrary to what Smith says, it is necessary to juxtapose St Thomas and Jacopone if one is to talk intelligibly about medieval Christianity. Is glad he liked the Correggio [print]; has continued to be impressed by his works. The vice-chancellor [G. S. Gordon] praised his note on the Dürer drawing in Old Master Drawings. They visited Blenheim yesterday.

Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Oxford - Thanks her for her letter, they have received the manuscript [of 'The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory']; Macmillan could borrow it if they need it before it officially becomes Bodleian property; any part of it could be photographed by the Clarendon Press; is sending her letter on to the President of Magdalen as she requests.