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Thanking Rosebery for his appreciation of the Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Discussion of how Macaulay treated letters to himself.

1 Brick Court, Temple E.C. Dated 11th March 1916 - Is glad the book reached him, and that [George Foot?] Moore's book is helpful; is working on 'Folk-Lore in the Bible'; is interested to hear about the Feltwell living; his nephew [John Steggall] has been appointed to a ship, and Lilly's nephew [Cecil Dodd?] has a commission in a line regiment; have good accounts of Lilly's children in Stockholm [Charles] and Paris [Lilly].

The Cleveland Play House, 8500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106 - Admires 'Amadeus', which he has seen several times, and which he is rehearsing (as Mozart); finds it repays work and exploration as richly as a classic.

Copy of original, 1941, by Max Beerbohm

Clifton, Bristol - Mr and Mrs Forbes were very concerned over the health of Cordelia Whewell, although now feel more assured after receiving a favourable report from Lady Monteagle. Could WW send him Arago's essay on Young [Thomas Young].

Includes some personal notes as well as experiments and extensive drawings of apparatus.

N.d. but includes several caricature drawings of friends and colleagues, two (of Shull Arms and Evan Gill) dated '~ 1943'.

Includes loose page of notes on verso of concert programme, 1943.

Incomplete illustrated fair copy of a travel journal which stops in the middle of chapter 4 of a projected 9 chapters. MS title page continues, 'Illustrated with plates, vignettes, plans, and a map of the route taken from the time of entering Switzerland to the time of leaving it at Basle; by James Coulman Ross; of Trinity College, Cambridge; Life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.' With a contents page that projects chapters and plates not completed here; present is a folding panorama map from the Aeggischorn and from the Mettelhorn, a folding map of the route in Switzerland, and a folding table, 'Notes from the thermometer, aneroid, & barometer, copied from observations taken by Rev. Geo. C. Hodgkinson'. Ross travelled with George Christopher Hodgkinson, George Frederick Hodgkinson, George James Spence Hodgkinson, and Grosvenor Hodgkinson.

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated April 21 - Thanks him for reading the draft of an unidentified text ['Modern Mythology'?]; mentions the mouse and Apollo, thinks exogamy is only part of the general totem taboo.

Caxton House - note about the payment of postage

Is very glad to hear from Myers. Refers to his excuses about 'the stay of Capua'. States that he and Nora'shall be glad to hear about the Ghosts.' Invites him to Cambridge, and states that they shall be alone until 10 October. Refers to the 'Poem', which he describes as 'st[ ] and entertaining and pleasure-giving', but open to some criticisms, which he proceeds to set forth. Sends his kind regards to Myers' mother.

Letter in clerk's hand, signed by Wordsworth.

RJ learnt this morning that both his Parliamentary Bills are safe. If he had not been so close at least one of them would have failed - 'but even that is but a trifling consolation for being tied up like a dog with such a small occasion. Prime reform in the manner of conducting business in the legislature and in the distribution of work among the public offices must be the work of the next generation - and a radical one too. RJ and Charlotte Jones are off to Folkestone and possibly France tomorrow. RJ's 'Law has been an amusement and consolation to me - there is no sort of obscurity hanging over either the sources of the common law or the times[,] occasions and men concerned in welding the mass - so much I am sure of and hardly know how to believe it should not have been made plain before'.

The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary. - Has just heard from Drummonds that fifty pounds has been paid into his account by his father; thanks him for his 'kindness'. Is postponing reading the prose of Interludes until he and Bessie have finished reading Boswell's Tour in the Hebrides aloud; they will then read Sir George's book together. Robert finds the verse 'as good as ever', especially Horace [at the University of Athens], always his favourite. Has compared it with the 'second edition of 1862'. Also thinks 'the parabasis of Ladies in Parliament' might be 'better than anything in Horace'; discusses this.

Bessie is well, and enjoying the fine weather; everything seems right with the house, and they now have 'about all the new furniture that was necessary'. They are looking forward to his mother's visit in autumn.

Perse School House, Glebe Road, Cambridge - Congratulates Frazer

Orchard Lawn, Winchester - Thanks him for his note; in reading 'Taboo and the Perils of the Soul' he has other examples of sympathetic magic: a lost nail from a cow's foot that needed to be found and stuck into some bacon as related by Cecil Torr in 'Small Talk at Wreyland'; a child born with a rupture healed by being passed through a split ash tree; and horseshoes that must be hung heels uppermost.

Accompanied by the envelope redirected from the Albemarle Club to the Midland Grand Hotel, London NW1.

Sends Trevelyan's cap. He and his wife are much grieved at the cause of Trevelyan's departure [the sudden death of his nephew Theodore]; they hope to see him and his wife soon. Asks if Trevelyan could write to C. H. Reilly a formal testimonial, regarding Abercrombie's suitability for the post of literary adviser to the Liverpool Repertory Theatre. There will be a board meeting on Wednesday and Reilly is chair [see also 1/37].