(Place of writing not indicated.)—Is hopeful about Monday’s meeting. They had a good meeting today.
Concerning a source for typewriting ribbons.
British-Asian and Overseas Socialist Fellowship, Transport House, Smith Square, London, S.W.1.—Asks him to address a meeting of the Fellowship, at which Jayaprakesh Narayan will be the chief speaker.
(Signed for the International Department, Labour Party.)
Peterborough Deanery. Reasons for his failure to write to his father.
Earliest of the three surviving pre-Tractatus notebooks containing also some coded diary entries and at the front a note that on Wittgenstein’s death the volume should be sent to Leopoldine Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell: 'Nach meinem Tod zu senden an...'.
Asks for copies of photographs of her husband, Sir Thomas Francis Wade.
''Concours restreint pour l'exécution de certains travaux en Mésopotamie: 1. Arrêté Ministériel; 2. Convention; 3. Cahier des charges, avec métrés': i.e. ministerial decree, agreement, and specifications.
Letter re possible entrance to Winchester College in 1927; entry regulations and examination papers for scholarships and exhibitions to Winchester College, June 1928; notification of first place in examinations, 9 June 1928 and newspaper cutting.
Møller, C. 1939
Moon, P.B. 1939
Neugebann, O. 1939
Press cuttings about appointment as Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, progress of foreign affairs up to Dec 1939, RAB's Privy Councillorship, constituency association meetings, Essex show, reviews of Sessions for local press; several short articles on foreign policy by RAB and copy of hi The future of political education, story of unsolicited soap from The Hague; table plans and menus for official functions; letters of thanks to RAB; photographs of RAB with British delegation to League of Nations at Geneva in 1938, going to Levee at Buckingham Palace, ?shooting party in Essex
Has sent him The Greek View of Life by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and hopes he will share his comments with Goldie.
Athenaeum Club, Waterloo Place, London. - Glad to learn Brown has embraced [New Zealand] on Milnes's advice, though his society is much missed; hopes friendship will be sustained despite distance; disappointing support by his uncle has underlined moral strength of Brown's move; hopes to hear of his early marriage, as youthful marriages are 'so much the highest happiness possible to man' and the emptier spaces. [Charles Armitage] Brown's translation of Boiardo [Orlando Innamorato?] belongs to Brown's family, and may be claimed from Milnes's library at any time. Limited value of Colonial Office recommendations; 'the feeling is every day gaining ground here that it is most advantageous to a Colony to be as little governed as possible'; wonderful spectacle of the Great Exhibition, but poor showing of United States; offers to supply books. Disagrees about African Squadron; vessels were needed to protect British traders from piracy, and slave-trading is being kept to a minimum.
EQUUS, The EQUUS Company, 275 Central Park West New York New York 10024 - Is proud to be associated with such a fine work.
Crowfield, Dymock, Glos. - Will be at Dymock for a month or two, hoping to do some work. He approves the "Annual" [a follow-up to Trevelyan's publication of 1917?] though Marsh is bringing out a "G.P." ["Georgian Poetry"] at Christmas and they might clash. He himself wants to publish in book form in the autumn; "Empedocles" would do well for the "Annual", though it is not yet finished. Delighted to hear Trevelyan is in England; he should stay if he can. Saw Trevelyan's brother George the other day. A postscript says that the two books ought not to clash if Trevelyan takes care.
Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Agrees with Robert's view of Euripides, although he reads so much of him; discusses Macaulay's view of the "Iphigenia in Tauris". Has just finished [Aristophanes's] "Batrachoi" ["The Frogs"] with 'intense delight'. Has finished the 'American part' of his book [a volume of "The American Revolution"] and has one concluding chapter left to write. Will send Bessy a hare if he can get one. Would like to make [Goldsworthy Lowes] Dickinson a 'Special Commissioner of Road Traffic'].