The nine letters reflect the two men's shared interest in mathematics and their closer ties of friendship: the discussions of mathematical problems and recent work appear in letters with private nicknames: Brer B'ar and Wicked Will (Johnson) and Brer Crawfish and Bullfrog (Glaisher). Glaisher also shares his opinions on international copyright, the cost of books used by schools, his work editing papers, his preferred work pattern. He writes a good deal about Trinity College life and politics, noting with pleasure the number of Trinity men in the Cabinet, and provides an assessment of Prince Albert Victor at Trinity ("I only hate him when he picks his teeth"). In one 30 page letter dated 25 October 1888 he writes candidly about the internal politics surrounding the election of a Trinity representative to the University Council, and has much to say about certain members of the Trinity College Fellowship: H. M. Taylor, A. R. Forsyth, Arthur Cayley, Henry Jackson, James Ward, J. N. Langley, and the Master H. M. Butler. Accompanying the letters is a note dated 21 Feb. 1891 recording a divided vote on Tutorial accounts which appears to have been separated from an explanatory letter.
Simply "with many thanks" on letterhead of Hotel Rembrandt, South Kensington, SW.
In the hand of H. Walker.
MS drafts and typescript copies.
Infrequent entries gradually becoming daily one line entries.
Diary kept from 28 Jan. 1877 to 2 Nov. 1887, with entries for every day recording his own life, and noting events in the wider world as well. The diary starts while he was at Rugby and follows his progress through Trinity from Michaelmas 1878 as Bell Scholar, winner of the Chancellor's English medal, placing 6th Classic, and obtaining a fellowship in 1884. With photographs of family and friends, telegrams, letters, clippings, and dried flowers laid in to the volume, as well as notes of addresses and a clipped page of J. K. Stephen's signatures.
Zonder titelThe Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House W.1. Concerns the proposal that an exchange be effected: seals in the College's possession which should be placed in the British Museum in exchange for an 18th century quadrant previously in the College's possession bought by Sir Hercules Read.
On treatment of 'Un Bar aux Folies Bergères'.
10 Madingley Road - presentation of medal at Royal Society, Burlington House.