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Longmeadow, Street, Somerset. - 'Here is a copy of AEH...'.

(Newton Abbot.)—Thanks him for clarifying a point relating to the Housman family. Will ask Gilbert Turner to send him the letters.

(Place of writing not indicated. Postmarked at Newton Abbot.)

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From E.M. April 5th, 1975.

Thanks for yours of the 3rd, and for clearing up the Housman family mystery; I had no idea there was another daughter, {1} as RR {2} never mentioned her, but only Clemence, who lived with LH {3} at Street.

I don’t know whether Gilbert Turner is back from France yet, but am writing him this weekend to send the letters to you, and I am sure he will. You will then have to cope with his awful address to thank him!

Yours sincerely,
Ethel Mannin

[Direction:] J. Hunt, Esq., | Ebury House | Romsley | Halesowen | Worcestershire

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Postmarked ‘NEWTON ABBOT | 6 APR | 1975’. Typed, except the signature and a few corrections.

{1} The reference is to Katharine Symons, née Housman.

{2} Reginald Reynolds, Ethel Mannin’s second husband.

{3} Laurence Housman.

Longmeadow, Street, Somerset.—Proposes to help pay for the education of his children.

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Longmeadow, Street, Somerset
May 14th 1929

My dear Denis

We are sorry to hear of your disappointment over Hampshire: but it might have been a heart-breaking job to work under a set of reactionary or stick-in-the-mud authorities, as I hear these were. Anyway Shrewsbury, Shewsbury, Shroosbury or Shoosbury has its compensations.

This is to tell you that, in a year or so, when education may be beginning to be an anxiety to you, I intend—if my finances hold good—to make a contribution toward the training of your offspring. There is just one proviso which may stand in the way—though I hope not. If your Uncle Basil’s circumstances require brotherly assistance, he will have to be a first charge on what I can afford. But if that does not happen, I hope to be able to let you have £50 a year while your income stays as at present, and when charges for education begin to get burdensome. If you should come into any inheritance of family money to that amount or more, I should feel released. And of course, if my public began to pay as little attention to my writings as many of my relatives do, I should have to tell you of it and attend only to number one. But so long as my income keeps to about what it is now, and yours ditto, that is what you may look forward to. And if you will tell me when a move on in the educational scale is necessary, I will begin to stump up. I don’t know whether Shrewsbury School takes day boys, but I suppose not till the age of 12 or 14. Meanwhile, what will the stages be? And when will they begin?

I don’t know whether Gerald will continue to exercise his charm on me as he grows older—probably not; I expect it’s a mere flash-in-the-pan, due to tender years and lack of knowing better! but I hope he goes on being good and serene.

Our love to you all.

Your affectionate uncle
Laurence.

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Ruled paper.

(The first line is ‘By Clent and Lickey side’. Cf. Add. MS a. 683/1/16.)

(The second and third of Laurence Housman’s articles are numbered ‘II’ and ‘III’ and headed respectively ‘The Caustic Critic. Swinburne and his “Fellow Rhinoceros” Macaulay: Delight in Provocation: Dream-Poetry’ and ‘The Last Years. Why A. E. H. Declined the Order of Merit’. Shanks’s article appeared in the 9 October issue.)

(The songs are entitled ‘Valete’ and ‘By Clent and Lickey Side’.)

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Has heard that she has moved house. Has had a tooth removed and has been invited to deliver the Leslie Stephen lecture. The College crocuses are just past their best.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
17 March 1933

My dear Kate,

I heard from Laurence the other day that you had changed house and taken up what you mean for a permanent abode; so I shall receive your new address in due course. The even tenour of my life was diversified by having a tooth out the other day. As it is a quarter of a century since I had the last out, I am encouraged to hope that the 18 survivors will keep me company till I am 98. The University authorities have prevailed upon me to give the Leslie Stephen lecture next May. As this must be on a literary subject it will give me a great deal of trouble to compose, and I shall not enjoy myself in the vacation, which began yesterday. The Trinity crocuses, which are the chief spring show of Cambridge, are extraordinarily magnificent this year, and now just past their best. Queens’ College is out of the running for the present, as their crocuses grow round a walnut, which has died and been dug up, to the great damage of the bed.

I should like to know what exactly you are doing about Claremont.

Your affectionate brother
A. E. Housman.

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‘Leslie Stephen Lecture’ has been added at the head in pencil, probably by the recipient (cf. Add. MS a. 683/1/21).

Longmeadow, Street, Somerset. - 'He spelt it "Brittanny...'.

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Sends an annotated volume of A. E. Housman's poems and some manuscript corrections, and asks if she wants his skull-cap.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
May 14th | 1936

Dearest K.

I send you this to start with; others will follow hereafter, but the nice ones are all packed.

This is an American edition, but it has a special interest as it contains corrections of punctuation in his own hand, and also a M.S. list of corrections goes with it. So it is a unique set, which will be of interest to posterity.

Would you like to have his skull cap for a keepsake? You are far more a relic-liker than I am. I have letters from America & elsewhere clamouring for relics: but of course for anything so personal family comes first

Just off to London

Love from L.

(The signatures are those of Douglas Campbell, Ann Casson, Lewis Casson, John Garside, Freda Gaye, James Gibson, Simon Lindquist, Roy Malcolm, Dinah Malone, Donald Ross, Sybil Thorndike, and Renee Bourne Webb. The signature of one cast-member, Alan Blair, is wanting.)

(The signatures are each preceded by the words ‘Your affectionate uncle’ or a similar expression. The following note is written in pencil on the envelope: ‘These signatures of LH. may have some sale value for book lovers or author worshippers.’)