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].
Admiralty, Whitehall.—(11th.) Reproaches him for being ‘bloody’ to her, but (12th) urges him to come and see her before dinner.
(Dated Sunday. The postscript was written the following morning.)
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Admiralty, Whitehall
Sunday.
How can you be so bloody, & why? Is it merely horror at the old generation when compared with the young. Even Raymond wondered what was the matter.
This is I suppose almost worthy of Margot.
Anyhow one mustnt quarrel, but you were bloody to me.
Venetia
This was the vituperative Margot line I wrote you last night! I still repeat you were bloody, but do dine at Winstons & anyhow come & see me before dinner, anytime after 6.
Venetia
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Written in red pencil. The postscript is on a separate sheet.
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.
Kinnardy, Forfar - Thanks WW 'for the great service you have done all geologists and me in particular by your splendid article in the British Critic' ['Lyell's 'Principles of Geology' volume 1', British Critic, 1831]. The 'keeping out of view all collision between geology and theology is a piece of tact which all [here] regret that the Quarterly Review did not do - no one more so than the editor - But for my running my head against the history of opinion I should have done this as carefully as you, I shall in v.2.' CL greatly admires what William Buckland has achieved in such an atmosphere. Can WW help him with his nomenclature: 'I cannot freely connect Sedgwick and other geologists whose judgment I much respect'. The 'only terms and divisions on which I feel quite decided are first to separate Tertiary and Contemporary'.
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].
3 Via Camerata, Florence. - Arrived safely yesterday, having had a 'delightful afternoon' at Pompeii on the way. Has found [Bernard] Berenson alone; Mrs C. [Mary Costelloe] will not return for a week or two; thinks that he and Berenson are 'making an effort not to squabble on matters of opinion, which is good discipline'. Hopes to hear from Bessie soon; will decide from what she says about her aunt's health how long to stay in Florence. Has not yet seen Miss D. G. [Lina Duff Gordon]; thinks things between them are all right now as 'her letters were quite friendly' and she liked his poem about her pet bat ["The Lady's Bat"]. Is in more difficulty with Mrs Costelloe; must keep on good terms with her if he wants to stay friends with Berenson; mistrusts her gossip and the effect it might have had on Lina. Has not yet shown Berenson his last year's poems and the work on his new play; hopes he will be encouraging. Dined with the Rasponis last night, who are very nice and live opposite in 'a magnificent palace'. Thinks Tuscany 'the finest country in the world'. Had a good time at Ravello, especially towards the end; the Straughns [sic: Strachan-Davidsons?] were 'very good company', though some 'annoying strangers' turned up. Mrs Reid was 'very kind'; wants him and Bessie to come in August or September; he has said that is not for him to decide. Will let Bessie know when he is due to arrive, and make sure he does so in the day so she will not have to get up in the dark to meet him at the station; wonders who will see the other first, as they are both 'as blind as bats'. Will show her the poem about the bat when she comes; it is not 'first class' but 'pretty'. Hopes her aunt continues to get well; would be a great shame if Bessie could not come to England in time to go to Welcombe.
Taunton's letter to Johnson dated 15 Feb. 1869, reply dated 17 Feb. 1869.
Albeyo Cavallino Cap de Ponte, Val Camonica, Brescia, Italia - Gives information on tree worship in Val Camonica.
Requests Sidgwick to give his opinion on a philosophical argument [included].
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
One letter only.
Correspondence re Sephadex. Gelotte was based at AB Pharmacia, Uppsala, Sweden.
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.
Ross, James Coulman (1844-1916) clergyman