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Postmarked Mainz. - Has just played through some of Act I and Act II [of "The Bride of Dionysus"] for Herr Geheimrat [Strecker], who 'has none of the doubts he had a year ago' and thinks that they should risk five acts due to the contrast in atmosphere between the prison and Labyrinth scenes. Is feeling 'more encouraged' than he has for some time, and feels that if he can get the instrumentation of the duet right he will be 'out of the wood'. Asks for permission for an omission and an insertion. Has recently realised the necessity of making an emotional point of the words 'Against my bridal day'.

Contains: "Poetry in Wartime America" by John Holmes; poem, "Crocuses", by Celia Lanyon Lanyon; poem, "Man-Woman, You and I", by Christmas Humphreys; poem, "To Memory", by Geoffrey Bosanquet; "From a London Diary" by S. S. [Sylvia Sprigge]; poem, "First Light", by Ida Procter.

Has abstained from taking any part in the town and gown disturbance, two Fellow Commoners of Trinity injured by police and Bruce of Jesus is dangerously ill in town

Mrs Butler's file of correspondence and information re trip to Washington, Tokyo and Manila, including details of RAB's itinerary

Press cuttings about RAB as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and general progress of the war, appointment as President of the Board of Education July 1941 and speculation re same Feb 1941, education speeches etc., post-war problems committees; texts of addresses to Annual General Meeting of Association of International Understanding, broadcasts on diplomacy and foreign affairs, meeting of Central Council of National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, meeting of Free Church Federal Council; personal impressions of Scottish schools; letters of congratulations on broadcast and letter predicting that RAB would be Prime Minister in 1949; photographs of RAB at League of Nations in 1939, visit with Earnest Brown, Minister of Health, to Manchester nursery school, addressing Ling Physical Education Conference; Tatler article containing portrait and other photographs

18, Earls Terrace, London, W.8. - Was photographed by John Paignton, as were Vic and Graham; late night with Vic telling stories; has finished a TV play, "The Musical Offering"; Tennents are looking for a director for "Sirens"; Hollywood calls often asking him to write the script of the "Voyage of the Beagle" but doesn't have time.

Visit to St Leonards

Maura, Dean Park Road, Bournemouth. Dated 21 March, 1896 - Congratulates him on his engagement; assures him there has been no coldness this term or ever, he has been busy: his brother Arthur died in December and he has been caught up in matters of his estate, and that of his father-in-law [Francis Vansittart Thornton], who died nearly a year ago.

Thanks WW for sending him the Supplement [probably 'The Influence of the History of Science upon Intelectual Education', 1854]: 'I find myself deep in Ethics and Metaphysics I feel as if I had got back into my youth - for many years are gone since I read anything in that line'. He is pleased to hear that Cordelia Whewell's health is improving.

Feverish illness of Henry Bickersteth, prescription for a child with a thorn in its eye: Kirkby Lonsdale

Incomplete.

Notes on Chas. Scarborough, ironmonger, smiths, tinners & braziers in Cambridge; a riddle; notes on praise of Whewell as a divine.

Written from Rome.

Itchenstoke - RCT apologises for his unceremonious leavetaking at Trinity Lodge last week, but he felt he should make room for late comers. He has been informed by the Bishop of Oxford, 'a few days since, of the purpose of Government to issue such a Commission [into the universities] as you have alluded to. Indeed he spoke of it, & apparently with knowledge, as already issued. He did not think that Ministers had any purpose of again attempting to compel the universities to admit Dissenters - but that the expressed purpose of the commission would be to enquire whether the universities could not be made, as regarded the members of the Church, more adequate to the needs of the present time. I am not aware whether the Bishop knew who the members of the commission were or would be. He only stated that no one concerned with the University Education would have any place on it - & that it would contain a good number of sufficiently unfriendly names'.

In bed with flu.

Patras - Has travelled through Greece with his Pausanias at his side; notes that the spring Aganippe no longer gushes from the wall near the ancient monastery.