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English translations of letters dated 1 Mar. [1831?], 4 Aug. 1831, 22 Oct. 1831, 21 Nov. 1833, and 4 Jul. 1835.

Title written on inside front cover. Copies of letters dated 15 and 27 Jun. 1834.

American Physical Society, M.I.T., April 1946.

The Physical Society, Conference on Fundamental Particles and Low-Temperature Physics, Cambridge, July 1946.

University of Ghent Colloquium, invitation and letter of thanks from A. Berthelot, 1946-47.

Collège de France, Rutherford memorial meeting, 1947.

University of Birmingham, Conference 'Problems of Nuclear Physics', September 1948.

In French.

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Was sorry to hear of Uncle John’s death. Hopes Kitty (his sister) was not hurt much by the swing. Has heard from Mr Heywood and seen Tovey. Romilly has died.

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Coll: SS: Trin: Cantab:
Aug: 20/64

My dear Papa and Mama

I was very sorry and surprised to hear of poor Uncle John’s death. It is no wonder that you are not well. You say he was well enough the Saturday before to go to Starcross {1} and stay with Aunt Lizzie. Is it not very like what one has heard of the flicker of a candle before it goes out? I remember having noticed it in other cases. It must be a consolation to think that he had no suffering during the week, and was conscious so long. And, if I may say anything of this kind, ought we to think that the mercy which we should ourselves accord can be greater than the Infinite mercy? It seems to take away all the benefit of the Incarnation, if the Compassion of our Lord is not at least as great as that of men.

I do hope dear little Kitty was not much hurt by the swing. I know it can knock very hard, because Clement hurt his knee there very much once. I have been scratching myself in bathing. About a fortnight ago I knocked my elbow against a rough post in diving, but it is nearly well now.

I have heard from Mr Heywood, who was in Paris on the 13th, and seems to be enjoying himself. Mrs Heywood is with him, and he says they have had delightful weather. I saw Tovey in a boat last night. You will see by the Paper that Mr Romilly, one of our Dons, has just died {2}.

Please to give my love to Mitchell, and say I hope he has not lost the opportunity of making interesting experiments as to the nature of physical pain. It is such a waste of trouble if he has.

With best love to all the little ones, and hopes that you are much better, believe me to remain

your very affectionate son
+W: K: Clifford.

P:S: I have at last borrowed a machine for mending pens, and my writing is rapidly improving under its influence. You should see the two awful tables of the Inequalities of the Moon’s Radius Vector and Longitude, which I have to read over every day, so as to get them by heart.

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On the back of the letter are two addresses in an unidentified hand: ‘W | 59 Cannon St | London’ (‘City’ struck through before ‘London’), and ‘2 Elm Grove | New North Rd’. The latter is an address in Exeter.

{1} A village in Devon, eight miles south-east of Exeter.

{2} Joseph Romilly died of heart failure on 7 August, while on holiday at Great Yarmouth.

Head and shoulders portrait. From studio of W. T. & R. Gowland, York.

The number 'II' is marked on the front and back of the cover and on the recto of the front free endpaper.

Also on the front free endpaper is written: '(Norse—November 1936–November 1937 and August 1938) (Provençal etc. August 1939–September 1940) and more Norse: Persian added July, 1942'.

There is a list of the contents of the book on p. i and the back of the front free endpaper.

Diary dated [6?] Nov. [1838] - 1 Jan. 1839. Top half of first leaf missing.

Source unknown.

Includes items found in the book.

'To A. E. Housman, most Ovidian man alive'. Note from Palmer?

University College, Gower Street, London. - '... three frivolous poems... I have had some copies bound'.

Headed notepaper, Regent's Park College, N. W. - Lord Houghton has previously been asked to preside over the 'Annual Public Debate' of the Regent's Park Debating Society, but was not able then to accept the offer, though hoped that this might be possible on some future occasion. This year the Annual Public Debate will be on 17 Feb., on the topic '"The Sensational": a healthy characteristic of the present day?'; might Houghton be able to accept the chair this time?

19 Dec [1850]: enclosed letter to Morton from George Stovin Venables.

11 Lombard St EC. - Thanks Houghton for his offer to assist Brown in his election to the Athenaeum Club; hears from a friend that his name will probably be in the third list to be ballotted for after 30th May, but when he knows for certainthat his 'card will be hung up', will follow up Houghton's kind offer and ask him to undersign it.

With illustration of 'The New Carlton Club House, Pall Mall'.

Reform Club, S. W. (on embossed notepaper for the Cobden Club). - The Committee have directed him to send Houghton a copy of a letter from Goldwin Smith, for consideration at the next meeting to be held in Feb. 1868. With enclosure: copy of letter, 10 Jul. 1867, from Goldwin Smith to [Thomas Bayley] Potter. Address given as Mortimer House, Reading. Potter asks 'how the Cobden Club can be made most useful'; thinks that 'Political men are the best guides', but will give his thoughts. Seems 'impossible, if it were desirable, now to restrict the Club to the circle of Cobden's personal friends and disciple, or even to the special propagation of his economical & international doctrines', though believes this was the 'original conception'.

Suggests that there might be one principal meeting in the year, at which a paper 'on some economical or international subject' might be read before dinner and afterwards printed by the Club; that dinner should be 'good but plain and short, if possible not much exceeding an hour', and that afterwards the 'leaders' should be given the opportunity of speaking to their 'assembled followers Parliamentary and non-Parliamentary about the political subjects of the day'. There could also be evening parties two or three times each session of Parliament, to which they might 'admit ladies, and invite foreigners'. Cobden Club business might be 'got up' by 'any member you liked'. The party 'needs a social board'; the Committee should select those chosen to give the annual paper; discussion of whether Parliamentarians would be able to make the paper and dinner.