Robert Mayor weak but looks forward to seeing Mary Anna
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (1951, 1953, 1976). Refereeing.
Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry (1940). Article by Synge.
Peterborough Deanery. Darcy has gained the Peel medal, H M Butler almost gained the Latin hexameter prize, best mode of acquiring the beauties of composition.
Congratulations on engagement.
(London Hospital, Whitechapel?)—Asks to borrow his motor tomorrow, and asks if he is enjoying Walmer.
(Dated Sunday.)
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Transcript
Sunday.
I wonder if you’d like to let me have the motor tomorrow, if you did I would pick you up at a few minutes after 5 if you really felt you could face the Whitechaple† road again.
Let me know when you want to be picked up.
Are you having fun at Walmer, be very nice to Margot so that she asks you again on the 11th. The P.M doesnt dare ask Diana tho’ he longs to.
Venetia {2}
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Probably written at the London Hospital, Whitechapel.
{1} ‘Margot disapproved of the “Coterie” in which Lady Diana Manners was prominent’ (H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley, p. 496, note).
{2} A postscript consisting of two sentences has been struck through and is illegible.
† Sic.
St Thomas's Hospital - WRL outlines the terms of which the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana pays for work - '5 guineas per sheet': he canvasses WW to do the treatise on geometry - which would 'probably not be required before next spring', and a piece on Archimedes - which they need 'for the next part'. WRL would also like WW to do a life of Plato - which could include what little is known of Pythagoras - ready for the Christmas issue.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 128 West Fourteenth Street, N. Y.
Announces that they are all going to London 'on the 6th', and he proposed to attend regularly from that time forward. Adds that he will come 'on the 4th', if Myers really wants him. States that five of them (including Lady Rayleigh and Nora) propose to attend 'from 6th to 17th, at Holland's invitation'. Reports that because he had not heard from him he 'concluded to put off Dakyns.' Reports that he has just heard 'the terrible news'. Asks Myers to write to him.
Experiments and calculations, running '20.11.1942' to '5.6.1943'.
Russell Avenue, St. Albans - Thanks him for his letter, defends his belief that the preface to the Addison essays volume was not a fiction, and points out that the Librarian at the British Museum [Sir Frederic Kenyon] was also hoodwinked.