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Postmarked South Kensington. - Asks if he might come to stay the night on Sunday; she should send a card or wire to Stocks, where he and Janet are, though he is spending the days in town. They move into Cheyne Gardens again on the 8th. Doesn't think Jan will be able to visit.

Pen Rose, Berkhamsted. - George gave Bob's [translation of] Theocritus to his father in law for his eightieth birthday, who has been reading it alongside the Greek and is 'full of admiration'. Having a 'great business here saving some of the wonderful Ashridge wilderness for the National Trust'; they have bought 'at least £40 000 worth' of land.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Sorry the 'pretty girl' [Hylkia Halbertsma, see 46/100] cannot stay with Elizabeth; wonders if she will have more success elsewhere; wonders whether, when Robert is settled with Madame Palumbo, Elizabeth could visit the Grandmonts at Taormina. Wishes she could have heard the concert [organised by Dolmetsch, see 46/100]; asks whether it was an artistic and financial success. Asks how she got on with the Arnolds; he [Ernest Penrose Arnold] 'had his faults' but both Robert and George owe much to him and his school [Wixenford]. The Arthur Severns have been visiting; she was Ruskin's niece [actually second cousin], and they live at Brantwood. Sir Courtenay Ilbert has also been; his daughters [Olive and Jessie] stayed with C[harles] and M[ary], as did F[rancis Dyke-] Acland and H[ilton] Young. George and Janet return to London on Monday; they want Robert and Elizabeth to dine with them and Caroline on 19 October, with a 'little party afterwards'; they could go to the theatre the night before. Amused by the idea of Elizabeth teaching a class; they are lucky to get her. Hopes [Helen] Fry is recovering; 'wretched for her' to be away from home as well.

Far Oakridge, Stroud, Gloucestershire. - Praises Trevelyan's 'noble translation of a noble piece of writing' ["Lucretius on Death..."]; 'Nothing has ever impressed [him] more'. When staying with the Lodges recently, he told [Olver?] Lodge that he stopped ;at the threshold of spiritulastic [sic] beliefs' due to 'the fact of our nescience of all past experience'; Lucretius puts this point in 'austere & admirable form'. Thinks Trevelyan's translation gives an 'impression of a Roman weight & gravity'. Asks if he can tell him about a translation of the whole of "De Rerum Natura" as he has been inspired to read more; thanks Trevelyan for sending it.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Grateful for the detailed information about Bessy and Paul. Has been reading about 'little Paul in Dombey' [Dickens's "Dombey and Son"]; thinks it the 'best account of a child' in literature which he knows, even better than "David Copperfield"; contrasts it with 'a clever, self-conscious woman or man writing about a child' like George Elliot on the Tullivers [in "Mill on the Floss"]. Thanks God that Paul Trevelyan will have a 'better constitution' than Paul Dombey. Sends an 'amusing letter' from [William?] Everett, which Robert need not return; Everett lacks 'front' and is 'at once the youngest and the oldest of human beings'. Is reading [Plautus's] "Trinummus" slowly, as he is getting tired over the end of his book ["The American Revolution"].

Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey. - Thanks Bessie for her note; is glad she feels [Donald Tovey's] symphony is 'a great work and solid as the classical works all are'; this is the only thing that matters, though Donald is 'more in a rage with the press than he need be'. Hopes he will now finish the opera ["The Bride of Dionysus"]. Remembers Fritz Busch saying there were four symphonies buried in Donald's piece (quotes the German). Was not the orchestra's fault last Monday: Donald was 'copying and patching parts' very late. Fears he is 'greatly exhausted'; he returned to Edinburgh on Thursday.

Will do all he can to ensure the return of CJM for Gloucester, still tired by hundreds of miles of travel in Transcaucasus, in the case of Home Rule the men of Ulster will fight, to meet with Unionist Quakers

Peterborough Deanery. Prize essays, reviews of George Grote's history of Greece suggests that it is better than that of Thirlwall.

A petition will soon be handed to the Prime Minister by Captain Morgan and Sir Alfred Mond for Mrs [Helen] Thomas, widow of Edward Thomas. Letters of support must be obtained, and de la Mare has been asked to collect these and send them to Captain Morgan. Asks Trevelyan as a 'particular admirer of the fine literary qualities of Thomas's work' to send one, with 'a few lines of warm tribute'.

Trinity College. Memories of the death of Gordon Butler.

Langley Lodge, Pullens Lane, Headington Hill, Oxford - Apologises for the long delay in responding, he has had a series of operations; believes the 'Anthologia Anthopologica' will be valuable; agrees with her that Frazer's work should be recognised by the Royal Geographical Society but that the awards are made for field-work, not academic work, would be delighted if there was a way to bring it about. Accompanied by the envelope.

Bryntan, Rhoscolyn, Holyhead; forwarded on from The Shiffolds to the Royal Hotel, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth. - Pleased Trevelyan approves of 'Empedokles and the rest of the gallimaufry'. Will probably be at home for September and would love to see Trevelyan; thinks it unlikely they will be able to visit Scarbold [?]. "The Odyssey" the greatest of poems - at least when one is reading it.

7 Falkland House, London, W.8. - Asks if there is any up-to-date information on the date of the Sacaea festival in the time of Berosus.

No enclosure.

Visit to Norwich to preach with Edward Bickersteth and others: Norwich

Return of Robert and Charlotte Mayor to England: Barnsbury Park

Currah - visit to see Aubrey de Vere, has been appointed High Sheriff, has had a long letter from [John] Sterling in Bordeaux

Visit to Italy as Royal Society Foreign Secretary, 12–13 October 1987

30 Cumnor Hill, near Oxford.—Comments on the letter to himself in Greg’s book (Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing).

'Examples - Pl Geometry', set of duplicated ms sheets for geometry classes 9 October - 11 December 1967.

Correspondence, 1945, 1947-1949, 1971, 1991.