Itchenstoke - RCT wishes to offer himself as a candidate for the vacant Theological Professorship at Cambridge - 'that is, supposing that Archdeacon Hare [Julius Hare] should not be a candidate. Should he determine to offer himself for the post, in that case every motive of respect & affection to him, & of interest in the theological well being of my university, would hinder me from putting myself forward as competitor, (which would be absurd) with him. Perhaps I might have a line from you to say what steps I ought to take for the purpose of officially declaring myself a Candidate, & whether I ought to announce my intention to each one of the electors'. RCT took great pleasure in WW's (anonymous) review of his Sacred Latin Poetry - 'both for the articles sake itself, & for the sake of it, as coming from you'. He also thanks WW for his volume on Induction: 'The subject lies only too far out of the line of my studies; but I can still perceive how much is at issue, how much more than at first sight might seem, in your differences with Mill [John S. Mill]. My sympathies, (I dare not in my ignorance of the subject use a stronger word) are altogether with you'.
Includes note on back of 1960 Trinity Hall register of addresses. Some sets of calculations have later annotations by Adams.
Overbury Vicarage, Tewkesbury, Glos. - In his letter of 14 March he wonders if there are traditions similar to that of 'Thomasing' or 'gooding' by women in Worcestershire or Gloucestershire on December 21st, mentions a traditional peal that is done as well, perhaps to scare demons. In the letter of 24 March, he thanks Frazer for his reply.
Accompanied by an envelope.
Postmarked Mainz. - Asks Trevelyan to expand the hint about Naxos in 'Act III (new style' [of "The Bride of Dionysus"]. Increasingly grateful to Trevelyan 'for having managed without narrative': in spite of Wagner 'living on narrative', Tovey feels that 'it combines all the musical uselessness of dramatic plot-machinery with the dramatic uselessness of lyric music". Thoughts on the music for A[riadne]'s despair. Has heard many operas in Germany: in the 'provincial towns' of Darmstadt, Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt there is 'a much-better-than-Beecham opera every day' and only pay five marks for the best seats. The singers are variable, but the orchestra, 'conducted by nobody in particular, is most respectable'. This does not make a profit, but is 'considered as much a necessity as the electric light, the churches & the tramcars'. Imagines Salisbury and Winchester having such institutions. Still struggling with the Theseus and Phaedra duet, but has fixed the shape.
Letters dated 13 May 1842, 13 May 1845.
Letters date from 10 May 1842 - 8 June 1842.
On Russia and Turkey
The Synges travelled from Peking to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway. An account of the journey by Synge, illustrated with pictures taken by his daughter Elizabeth, appeared in the Railway Magazine, August 1960, pp.574-579
G/103: Softback notebook used as detailed diary of journey on Trans-Siberian railway.
G/104: Off-print of article from the Railway Magazine on journey, with letter re publication and typescript draft
G/105: Visas, memorabililia
Containing verse.
103: Twelfth Night
104: Measure for Measure
105: Comedy of Errors
106: The Tempest
107: Two Gentlemen of Verona
Enclosing leaflet dropped over Germany [with translation]
115: Letter from Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil to Richard Monckton Milnes, [1861/1862?].
Miscellaneous press cuttings, most of them from English papers, accompanied by a cutting of an article headed 'Découverte de manuscrits d'André Chénier à Angers' in 'Journal des Debats' by Comtesse Jean de Pange (Item 121); a list of Premiers Protecteurs of La Fondation du Foyer du Conservatoire (Item 120); an income tax informational booklet from 1940 (Item 112); and printed minutes for the meeting of the General Council of the University of Glasgow in October 1939 (Item 111). Accompanied by 4 envelopes.
Lord Pethick-Lawrence will not be able to speak at the meeting on 18 April (see 1/101).
(Text as 1/103a.)
45 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, N.W.3. - Congratulates Frazer.