(On the front of the menu is a photograph of the Great Gate at Trinity. The signatures include those of a number of Fellows of the College besides Housman, including F. A. Simpson, R. St John Parry, Henry Jackson, V. H. Stanton, W. C. Dampier Whetham, Sedley Taylor, R. Vere Laurence, J. Ellis McTaggart, H. McLeod Innes, Gaillard Lapsley, F. R. Tennant, and F. G. Hopkins.)
Typed copy. Lindsay Sap. Many letters and parcels have now reached him, would love to see Simpson in khaki, Nevile Butler's job should not damage the prospects of English interned in Germany, exchange of fire and storm, Captains Loring and Sloan died of festering wounds.
Dined with M R James who is bored of the Vice-Chancellorship, argument between Garrett and Fitzgerald when climbing, "wild Welsh Tory" at the Union, Magpie and Stump, Robert Law "a capital fellow though he belongs to a damned Trades Union", Alf Noyes had a heated debate with Charles Waldstein, Nevile Butler developing into a good soccer player, Temperley a poor lecturer, Simpson good in matter but bad in delivery, Political Science "a shocking hard subject", Cornford "a positive danger to the public".
Christy Dickinson explains that Catholicism does not depend on a historical Jesus, Commander Evans spoke on the expedition to the Antarctic, writing essays for Simpson.
Christ Church, Oxford - Has read his book on Louis Napoleon; his father served in the same company of Special Constables and shares his stories, and that of being a small boy held up to see Napoleon III as he passed.
Strong, Thomas Banks (1861-1944), Bishop of OxfordLetters from B. Goulding Brown, Sir Ernest Barker, Betty Behrens, Harold E. Butler, Sir M. S. D. Butler, Sir Herbert Butterfield, Sir G. N. Clark, V. H. Galbraith, G. P. Gooch, Gerald Graham, Michael Grant, H. Lauterpacht, Belinda Norman-Butler, Sir F. M. Powicke, Sir D. H. Robertson, F. A. Simpson, Humphrey Sumner, Norman Sykes, G. M. Trevelyan, Sir C. K. Webster, and E. L. Woodward.
Trinity College, Cambridge - feels he did not know John Cornford well enough, had expected to know him better as a Fellow of Trinity, cannot write about John as a student as a "corrective" to other accounts, he is unwilling to criticise John for his Marxist essays.
Trinity College Cambridge - gives criticisms of wording of the memorial.
G K M Butler would have been elected a Fellow if there had been four vacancies instead of three, F A Simpson particularly pleased with his performance in history, electors think him safe for the following year, Nevile Butler working at the Foreign Office.