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Letter declining invitation to the 1905 Apostles' dinner.

Letter declining invitation to the 1905 Apostles' dinner.

From Arthur B. Cane, Austen Chamberlain, Ernest R. Debenham, Frank Gillson, L. N. Guillemard, Stanley M. Leathes, Theodore Morison, F. S. Oliver, Arthur Platt, W. A. Raleigh, R. Ll. B. Rathbone, A. H. Smith, H. Babington Smith, H. F. Stewart, Arthur H. Studd,. C. S. Whibley, H. F. Wilson.

230: 16 Jun. 1916, enclosing letter from Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, to Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith.

231: 19 Mar 1889, enclosing letter, A. Sidgwick to H. F. Wilson [mid-Mar 1889]
235: 21 Mar 1889, enclosing letter, A. Sidgwick to H. F. Wilson (Mar 1889), with letter from A. Sidgwick to Henry Babington Smith, 21 Mar 1889.
237: concerning In Partibus Club etc, enclosing poem, ''Carmen Cantabrigiense: In Partibus Infidelium (sive Paganorum) Canendum' [verses in English"

Two photographs of a group of 14 men sitting on and around a bench, featuring two different poses of the group; in one of these J. N. Langley is on the shoulders of J. K. Stephen. Pencil caption on the verso records the date and the names of the men: J. N. Langley, A. H. Clough, F. B. Winthrop, H. C. Goodhart, J. K. Stephen, Prince Edward, H. F. Wilson, J. D. Duff, H. B. Smith, J. W. Clark, H. L. Stephen, A. H. Smith, G. N. Dalton, C. V. Stanford. Accompanied by a letter from O. F. Morshead, Windsor Castle Librarian to J. D. Duff dated 25 July 1932 thanking him for the loan of the photographs.

Royal Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue, London. - Asks for a copy of Trevelyan's "Pterodamozels" to add to his 'apostolic' collection [books published by members of the Cambridge Apostles]; gives the address as 43 Ovington Square; would be 'indebted' to him if he also wrote his name on the title page. Asks in a postscript whether Trevelyan has a printed list of his other publications.

Including list of possible members.

Lennox House, 43 Ovington Square. - Thanks Trevelyan for the 'two volumes ' [one the "Pterodamozels", see 19/63] and the particulars of Trevelyan's other books. Will be arranging his 'collection of Apostolica' [books by Cambridge Apostles] when he goes to Herefordshire next week, and then 'fill some more of its gaps'; meanwhile would like a copy of Trevelyan's "Polyphemus' and encloses payment.

Included are letters from Stanley Baldwin (B/67), Lady Betty Balfour (B/70), Harley Granville Barker (B/69), Sir J. M. Barrie (B/68), Edmund Charles Blunden (B/71), Evelyn Boscawen, 8th Viscount Falmouth (B/71), Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh (B/67), Max Planck (B/67, B/70), Sir J. H. Jeans (B/71), Sir W. H. Bragg, (B/73), Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood (B/67), Prince Chula of Siam (B/72), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/71, B/73), Sir G. H. Duckworth (B/68), Frederich Homes Dudden (B/66), Lilly Frazer (B/72), Violet Grimston, Countess of Verulam (B/73), Graeme Haldane (B/72), Roy Harrod (B/72), A. E. Housman (B/73), David A. E. Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford (B/70), Sir Henry McCardie (B/63), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/68, B/70), Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (B/70), Katharine, Lady Parsons (B/66), Marga Planck (B/67), A.O. Rankine (B/73), John, 1st Viscount Sankey (B/72), Lady Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (B/71), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/66, B/69), Lucy Babington Smith (B/69), Susan Babington Smith (B/69), John Bulloch Souter (B/73), Angela Thirkell (B/72), Mari M. Thompson (B/73), Sir Henry Francis Wilson (B/68), F. Theodore Woods (B/69).

Photographs of a group of 14 men sitting on and around a bench, with J. N. Langley on the shoulders of J. K. Stephen. Ink caption above and below photograph records the date and the names of the men: J. N. Langley, A. H. Clough, F. B. Winthrop, H. C. Goodhart, J. K. Stephen, Prince Edward, H. F. Wilson, J. D. Duff, H. B. Smith, J. W. Clark, H. L. Stephen, A. H. Smith, G. N. Dalton, C. V. Stanford.