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5 Parkfield Road, Didsbury, Manchester.—Declines to contribute to the Review for the present, but offers to join the advisory panel, if older scholars have not been purposely excluded. Jonson (Herford and Simpson’s edition) is now going through the press.

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5 Parkfield rd. | Didsbury | Manchester.
11 Feb. ’24.

Dear Dr. McKerrow,

I am very glad to hear that the English Review, of which I had heard rumours, is now definitely in prospect. I would rather not undertake anything definitely for your first number, but I shall hope to be able to at any rate later on. In the meantime all good wishes for it.

Is your Board of Advisers intended to spare old stagers?—I see that it does not include names so honoured as those of Bradley & Saintsbury. But though technically on the retired list I hope I am not shelved in work; Simpson’s & my long-protracted Jonson is, as you probably know, now going thro’ the press. At any rate I am quite ready to join if you think proper.

Yours vy truly
C H Herford.

Undated - Rendel Harris has told him he asked the Frazers to call on him [Saintsbury], but he regrets he is ill and cannot receive them.

King's College, Cambridge. - Read Trevelyan's essay on poetry, "Thamyris", last night; thinks it is 'delightfully written', particularly the opening and first chapter. Generally agrees with the second chapter on spoken verse, but thinks it needs 'strengthening, further investigation and evidence'. Disagrees from Trevelyan on some points such as the speed at which the 'Miltonic monosyllabic line' reads. The chapter on 'Duple and Triple time baffles and bewilders' him: does not understand the terms in a poetic context and wants 'much more definition and example'; advises Trevelyan to look again at [George] Saintsbury's 'axioms in... "the Short History of Prosody"', which he himself finds 'very helpful'. Shows how his scansion of a line from [Shakespeare's] "Troilus and Cressida" differs from Trevelyan's. Thanks Trevelyan for letting him see the essay; may not have done it justice as yesterday he had two supervisions, an hour and a half's meeting with the Town Planning authority, and an audit of college silver, as well as 'hearing a young man's choral and orchestral setting of the "Prometheus" (done for George Thomson) played on a piano' and 'meeting a black emperor [Haile Selassie?] and his prime minister at dinner'.

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162 Royal Crescent, Bath - Rendel Harris has told him he asked the Frazers to call on him [Saintsbury], but he regrets he is ill and cannot receive them.

116, Rue de Vaugirard, Paris - Since they left the house in Bath they have lost touch with many friends, but offers an introduction to Professor Saintsbury.