Correspondence re research, 1955, 1969.
Typescript drafts, incorporating some of the material in H.104
Family tree of the descendants of William and Alice Boole.(Photocopy supplied by G.K. Batchelor)
Misc. genealogical notes on the Boole family (to 1879).
Notes for a family tree by Taylor, with a ms. footnote `notes of talk between GIT and E.L. Voynich'
Written from Downing College Lodge.
Clifton, Bristol - JDF is disappointed that 'on the very eve of quitting the north [to avoid the weather] I learned by your kind note that we might have hoped to see you today'. Mr and Mrs Airy have been to stay for a couple of days. Since he has been ill, JDF has been struck by the sympathy he has received from his Cambridge friends.
Collingwood - JH has not been working much on his translation of Homer's 'Iliad'. He will not be attending the BAAS meeting in October: 'that sort of thing is more than I can face now'. De Morgan has sent him a spoof of the opening of book one of the 'Iliad' [JH encloses a copy].
Thanks WW for his book ['Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay', 1854]: 'I have read it with deep feeling - and if I may use the liberty of saying so must profess to believe that it is a book which cannot fail greatly to modify generally received opinions, even if it should not lead to the adoption of a belief altogether differing from that which has prevailed in modern times'.
Richards's Coffee house, Temple Bar - Thanks WW for his letter which contains many excellent schemes. EB has been with Babbage and Herschel: 'we have had a kind of committee of notation' and 'have agreed also upon a Digest, of which you must take part. It consists of a collection of all known algebraic results, arranged in the order of Deduction'.
Asking for suggestions for an M.P. to write a regular column on Parliament for the Guardian and Church Quarterly Review
Homefield, Send, Surrey - In her letter of 28 Oct. she shares that her son [Arnold Paice?], one of the first white settlers in Kenya, states that the Kikuyu do not keep pigs or sacrifice them, as mentioned in 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament', and wonders if the reference from C. W. Hobley is correct; she thanks him for his reply on 10 November.
Second letter accompanied by the envelope.
Letters dated 30 March 1894 and 26 June 1908
Postmarked Englefield Green. - Extended discussion of the last act [of "The Bride of Dionysus"] and Ariadne's turn to Dionysus. Thinks the solution must involve 'the Dionysus-as-missionary-among -the-Maenads-&-unrecognised-by them notion' and care taken by Tovey to show in Ariadne's despair that she is 'always and already immeasurably greater than her own love affair'. Does not want Love to be 'explained away' but 'unmistakeably identified with Dionysus and his particular brand of immortality'. Dionysus should not be 'a case of appendicitis', nor a 'revival' of Theseus. Sunday at 'Ampsteadam' was 'glorious' and [Elgar's?] 'new symphony is a splendid work'.
A second postcard, postmarked with the same date and time and headed 'II', reprises Tovey's thoughts about Ariadne and Dionysus: one reason that he thinks Trevelyan's latest idea is right that it returns to his original, 'most impulsively & naturally conceived' notions. Feels it is necessary to include certain things: 'Dionysus as his own prophet incognito among the maenads'; 'the chorus's fear of suicide'; 'Dionysus's capacity to rehabilitate love in asserting divinity'; the 'suddenness of A[riadne]'s conversion'. Will write about some details in Acts II and III; does not want to shorten for its own sake.
Contents of an envelope so inscribed.
C.105: 'Analytic Theory of Numbers'. Ms. draft of a course of lectures, variously sub-titled.
C.106: 'Additive number-theory'. Ms. draft for course of lectures, with note on first page 'Analytic number theory ctd.'.
C.107: 'The Hardy-Littlewood method'. 22pp. ms. draft for lecture.
Created while at Stanford University, California, 1947-48, 1950.
Letters dated 4 Dec. 1828, 12 Mar. 1829, 14 May 1833.
Synge was an original member of the Society.
H/105: List of original members, 1944; List of members 1948.
H/106: Papers for meetings etc, 1945-1948
H/107: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1949-1953
H/108: Papers for meetings etc, 1949-1958
H/109: Refereeing for Journal of General Microbiology, 1961-1964