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40 Weymouth Street - pleased at Blakesley's canonry

Thurlby Hall, Newark - George Green is very grateful to WW for all the 'presswork' he carried out for GG's maiden memoir. Another memoir is ready - could WW say whether it would be favourably received? EB Thanks WW for his pamphlet which he read twice 'and consider the most decisive thing of the kind, that I ever met with - We want the whole of Logic thoroughly sifted in the same manner'. EB commends WW's warnings about premature definitions - the best illustration is found in Botany where Linnaeus refused to define his natural families prematurely. Even in mathematics definition follows knowledge.

Refers to events in Megara 'about the time of Theognis and implied in his allusions', and to Welcker's and Bernhard's interpretation. Warns Sidgwick however, that Grote 'will not have it'. States that 'the [rows] in Megara were consequent upon the new departure.' Refers to 'the interesting case of [Timoleon]' Declares that 'Aristotle must be a liar' if [ ] is taken in a wide sense. Refers to 'the case of K[ ] [Grote IV. 54 599]. Tells Sidgwick to look at the case of the Gilonian citizens 'and the row they created at Syracuse [Grote V.317]'. Thinks that Aristotle w[oul]d almost certainly have created such a case as an [ ]. Refers again to 'the interesting case of [Timoleon]' Declares that 'Aristotle must be a liar' if [ ] is taken in a wide sense. Declares that Dionysius of Syracuse 'redistributed all the Syracusan lands', and that the reference to Diodorus XIV, 78 is important.

18, Earls Terrace, London, W.8. - Concerns plans to speak, spend a week together in the summer; is auditioning for the recasting of "Five Finger Exercise" in London.

The first notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter X is continued in Add.Ms.b.102.

University of London, University College - Giving dates William Wyse held the Chair of Greek. Accompanied by a telelphone message of the same day giving the same information.

C.101: 'Sylow's Theorem', 9pp. ms. draft. 'Theory of groups', 5pp. ms. draft.
C.102: 1p. ms. 'Groups Literature'; 1p. ms. 'Group Theory. Outline of Course'; 3pp. ms. 'Examples on groups'; etc.
Created while at Stanford University, California, 1947-48, 1950.

Synge visited China at the invitation of the Academia Sinica.

G/101: Correspondence re travel arrangements etc, 1959-1960; manuscript notes on institutions visited.
G/102: Travel documents

To N. E. S. Hamilton, Miss E. M. Forster, R. M. Theobald and the Master of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge [N. M. Ferrers]

Letter 120, dated 5 July 1815, contains extracts from De Rancé [poem by John William Cunningham]