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Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W.—Rejects Nichol Smith’s criticism of the prospectus, and discusses the composition of the panel.

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Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W.
14 Jan. 1924

Dear McKerrow

We got home this afternoon & your letter arrived an hour later. I found one from Grierson accepting & wishing success.

I dont think Nichol Smith is in any way essential & as he was declining I thought his criticism unnecessary. {1} I told him I agreed generally that the most fruitful work of the last gener-ation had been English & not German but that that did not seem to me any objection to the sentence in the circular. I also said that while I had no desire to minister to German swelled head still less did I wish to pander to smug English selfcomplacency. So I expect he felt his knuckles rapped but being a nice fellow I hope he wont bear a grudge.

I am glad the appeal has been a success. I am not sure what representation we have from Cambridge—except on that score Chadwick is not the least essential. A. C. Bradley—except as an advertisement—would be no use at all me judice. {2}

Ever yours
W. W. Greg

I hope to be lunching on Thursday. {3}

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{1} See MCKW A3/11b.

{2} ‘In my judgement.’

{3} 17th.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, Nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 13/03 - Points out a correlation between the signs of the zodiac who liberate the sun and the Gemini who liberate the daughters of the Sun in Greek legend, thinks it was [Hector Munro] Chadwick who pointed out that the signs must be twins.

Chetwynd House, Selly Oak, Nr. Birmingham. Dated Nov. 21/03 - Has been reading articles by A. B. Cook and thinks Frazer has nearly converted him; [Hector] Chadwick sends a quotation about twins from Bede; mentions a belief about the Angel Gabriel and a fountain in the Asia Minor village of Habusu and finds a similarity with a Burmese New Year.

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

St. Keyne, Cambridge. Dated 1 Sept. 1910 - Asks if he is summarising the female descent of the kingship in Scandinavia correctly; most of it is from Chadwick's 'Origin of the English Nation'. With a typescript note at bottom noting no reply survives, but there is a Genealogy of the Ynglingar in Chadwick's handwriting.

Clare College. Dated 11 Oct. 12 [and 18] - Discusses the translation of a passage from Völuspá about Balder.

Didsbury College, Manchester. Dated 9.3.03 - Suggests he read 'Pupula duplex' by K. F. Smith in 'Studies in Honor of B. L. Gildersleeve' on mannikins in the eye; has [Hector Munro] Chadwick's paper on the Thunder-god, but prefers Frazer's explanation of the connection of oak and thunder.

10 Wood Lane, Highgate, London, N.6. Dated 23rd. May 1930. Confidential - Describes the department at Cambridge, what it was in 1926 and how it evolved and what courses are now given, what the students are like, mentioning [H. M] Chadwick, [M. C.] Burkitt, Navano [J. M. de Navarro?], [R. U.] Sayce, [E. H.] Minns.

67 Selborne Road, Southgate, N.14.—Chadwick has declined to join the panel.

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67 Selborne Road, Southgate, N.14

I am sorry to say that Chadwick refuses: I have had a letter from him, and he says he has so much other work he can undertake no other liabilities. Sorry

R. W. Chambers

[Direction:] R. B. McKerrow Esq. | 3 Adam St | Adelphi | W.C.2.

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Postmarked at Palmers Green at 11.30 a.m. on 8 January 1924.