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Halford, Shipston on Stour, Worcestershire - Domestic trials: maid trouble, young people who want to live in cities, have a young girl [Violet Wynne] living as a companion who is ignorant for her years; he and his sister are in ill health, is particularly troubled by bladder issues, asks whether Frazer's father's firm has instruments that could help; [Robert] Hicks had a stroke returning from [James] Glaisher's funeral and has died.

Includes letters re Trinity College Commemoration Dinner, which was held on 5 December

Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated Nov. 17, 1916 - Thanks him for his letter concerning the Royal Astonomical Society Club dinner.

Two letters from Glaisher and five letters from Francis Dodd about the portrait. In the letter dated 19 Aug. 1926, Glaisher shares his memories of William Davidson Niven. In the letter of 1 Aug. 1926 Dodd declines to make another drawing of A. E. Housman, as he has found that he rarely repeated success with a subject.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks him for his letter concerning the Royal Astonomical Society Club dinner.

Accompanied by a note giving the background to the man known as "Orange Jumper" and the Don Pottery jugs commemorating him.

Letters concerning classical studies and Trinity College business and social life, with a small group of printed material and testimonials. Some letters have explicatory notes by Florence Image, and almost 40 letters are from Henry Jackson. Other correspondents with several letters each are from or relating to: H. M. Butler (some to Florence Image), A. V. Verrall, W. Aldis Wright, W. H. Thompson, Duncan Crookes Tovey and other members of his family, J. G. Frazer, J. N. Dalton, and J. W. L. Glaisher; for other correspondents see names below. Some of the letters are by Image himself to various correspondents.

The printed items are: an unsigned printed letter opposing the education of choristers (a parody) dated 1877; a Greek text with an English translation, Fragmentum incerti ex Hēthikophysikolērois mocking the new Triposes, with a date of 20 Oct. 1848 written at the top of the first page ; comedic verses about Thomas Huxley in English and Greek; two notices about the non-placeting of the Grace for the Duke of York's degree in 1894; and a Latin poem about Como, a toy belonging to the Butler children James, Gordon, and Nevile, by Montagu Butler, dated April 1897. A small group of testimonials at the end of the collection were written in support of Image's candidacy to become Undermaster of the Upper School of Dulwich College in 1869.

Keppel Street - The instruments [for the Magnetic Observatory] are likely to be ready by the end of October. CB has made some enquiries for an assistant to Mr. Glaisher, the superintendent of the Magnetic department at Greenwich Observatory. A respectable assistant will not be got for much less than £120 per year. Glaisher 'observed that at that salary, they seldom kept long those who were worth keeping; and if they did remain there, it was only for the sake of retaining the name of 'Assistant at the Royal Observatory' as a stepping stone to something better'. Some final details to consider before the plan of the building is finally settled.

Letter, 15 Oct. 1883, from J. W. L. Glaisher to the mother of a young man who may wish to become a student at Trinity, explaining what needs to be done to seek admission, the unlikelihood of his getting a college room in his first year, and the difficulty of estimating an undergraduate's expenditure. Enclosing a printed sheet with information on the entrance examinations to be held in Jan. 1884; a certificate at the bottom is to be to be filled in and returned to the College Tutor. There is also a printed folded sheet with information relating to non-collegiate students at Cambridge.

The prospective student is most likely William Hastings Bagshaw, son of William Edward Bradshaw of Pitt Place, Epsom, given the provenance of the documents; he was admitted as a student at Cambridge in October 1884, but at Pembroke rather than Trinity. His mother was Maria Roberts Bagshawe.

Included are letters from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh; J. H. Poynting, Baron Kelvin of Largs; Sir Archibald Geikie; Sir William Crookes; Robert Cary Gilson; J. W L. Glaisher; Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb; Henry Luke Paget; and a manuscript poem entitled ’Sir Joseph Thomson and the lons’, dedicated to Thomson and signed 'H.D.E. [M.R.I.]’.