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Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey. - Asks Bessie if she can send back an enclosure; despairs as to how they can get D.F.T. [Donald Tovey] to get the symphony ready in time [for its British premiere]. Is now going to Edinburgh for a week, after an attack of influenza; Kate [Friskin] is playing the Schumann allegro and Beethoven G major concerto, with Donald conducting, on the 20th. The critic at the Hague is 'delightful'; is astonished any newspaperman could understand Donald so well; asks Bessie to translate it exactly for her. Her 'world is full of Belgians - two more, convalescent officers, arrived today'. Madame de Beughen will be in charge of them till she returns.

Woodside, Cove, Dumbartonshire - Thanks him for his kind words about her father Baldwin Spencer in the 'Times'; had a letter from her father dated 22 April, asks if Frazer would like to see any notes her father made on his last expedition, and give advice on what to do with them.

Accompanied by the envelope.

22 Sussex Villas, W. - Has written to Mrs Grammont [sic: Bramine Hubrecht] 'about her young Russian'. Tells Bessie to make sure Bob writes the article on [Thomas Sturge] Moore as soon as he gets home. Will be away from the middle of March to the middle of May, so Bob must communicate directly with [Edward] Jenks about the article, unless [Nathaniel] Wedd or [Goldie Lowes] Dickinson return from their Easter holiday in time to take it. Glad they have got 'such a jolly place'.

Hotel & Pension Palumbo, Ravello, presso Amalfi. - Very sorry to hear her aunt is no better; wishes her uncle would get a nurse; agrees that Bessie should not go to England yet and will therefore stay longer in Ravello; if her aunt is no better by the time he reaches the Hague he will stay only a few days and could come back later.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Glad that they found Caroline 'a great comfort and pleasure'; is not 'anxious' but 'much interested' about Elizabeth [due to give birth]. Interested by what Robert says about [Aeschylus's] "Eumenides", which he thinks the best Greek tragedy he has read. Hopes the newspaper reports of the discovery of a substantial fragment of Menander are true. Discusses his recent reading of Lucian, whom Macaulay quotes in his essay on Madame D'Arblay.

Peterborough. Advice re reading for H M Butler's Latin and Greek.

2 Brook Street - Thanks WW for his book [Indications of the Creator, 1845]: 'I had been expressing my wish that the last two or three chapters in your Bridgewater Treatise [Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, 1833] could be republished in relation to those very topics. What you have printed has in considerable degree fulfilled this object'. HH cannot think who the author of the Vestiges of Creation can be - 'though from his familiarity with modern science...it seems as if he were a person that must be known. I think him not to be a medical man...The 3rd edition, which is the one I have, is improved in many respects; but the essential faults remain'

Informs him that he has won the first Members' Prize

Press cuttings about RAB's involvement in education matters, his House of Commons opposition to Government policy on the N.H.S., abolition of University M.P.s and the Middle East, Conservative charters on agriculture, imperial policy and The right road for Britain, visit to Italy 1949, twenty years as an M.P. and Honorary Degree of Oxford University, RAB as Chancellor of the Exchequer including budgets and speculation on his succeeding to premiership (Jan 1952); articles by RAB on Unesco, education, 'The challenge of 1948' from Picture Post; texts of broadcasts by RAB including 'What Conservatives stand for'; original letters from Anthony Eden to RAB (March 1948) on political situation, RAB to parents (11 Sept 1949 and 23 April 1951) including from Commonwealth Relations Conference, Sydney to Lady Butler (10 June 1949) describing luncheon with Winston Churchill at Chartwell, Lord Halifax to Lady Butler; newspaper cartoons particularly from January 1952 and 1952 Budget; photograph of RAB at Colston Boys' School, Bristol, prize giving; obituaries of Sir Montagu Butler and text of oration from ?Pembroke College, Cambridge, memorial service; ceremonial papers and cuttings on death and funeral of H.M. King George VI

(London Hospital, Whitechapel?)—Is unable to see him this afternoon, as her mother is in London. Defends herself against his criticisms. She has only three more weeks left (at the hospital). Yesterday she went for a drive with Bongie; she supposes Montagu was with Edward Grey.

(Dated Monday.)

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Monday

Alas! I cant manage this afternoon as Mother has come to London & I have to go out with her. I should have liked to have seen you, you wrote me rather a crusty letter {1} which you sent by Bongie, its rather hard to spend 2 whole days unable to see a real human being (Friday I never went out & Saturday only till 11.A.M.) from “bitter constraint & sad occasion drear” {2} & then to be cursed for it. But Wednesday I’ll come to tea at 4.30. I’ve not heard from old Kath, she has behaved vilely to me.

Only 3 more weeks to day. 21 days. Not so very long is it. One would stand anything for only that time, & besides I again dont much mind it.

What a glorious day yesterday. Bong & I drove along Chelsea Embankment, I suppose you were walking with E. Grey.

Yrs
Venetia

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Probably written at the London Hospital, Whitechapel.

{1} MONT II B1/89, dated 14 March.

{2} A slight misquotation from Milton’s ‘Lycidas’. Cf. MONT II A1/64.

comments on a book by Bertrand Russell

Miscellaneous correspondence: 1955, 1955, 1958.

Summer Quarter

67pp. typescript notes made by G. Hedrick.

Created while at Stanford University, California, 1947-48, 1950.

Accompanied by three extracts from Henry Jackson's commonplace book about the '77 Club, two menus for dinners of the '77 Club from 1904 and 1911, with signatures of those present, including Gurdon and Jackson, and a cutting about the '77 Club.

Bergmann-Fischer Verlag 1945

Bild der Wissenschaft 1966-67

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1959, 1974

Butterworths 1950