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Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey. - Thanks Bessie for her note; is glad she feels [Donald Tovey's] symphony is 'a great work and solid as the classical works all are'; this is the only thing that matters, though Donald is 'more in a rage with the press than he need be'. Hopes he will now finish the opera ["The Bride of Dionysus"]. Remembers Fritz Busch saying there were four symphonies buried in Donald's piece (quotes the German). Was not the orchestra's fault last Monday: Donald was 'copying and patching parts' very late. Fears he is 'greatly exhausted'; he returned to Edinburgh on Thursday.

A petition will soon be handed to the Prime Minister by Captain Morgan and Sir Alfred Mond for Mrs [Helen] Thomas, widow of Edward Thomas. Letters of support must be obtained, and de la Mare has been asked to collect these and send them to Captain Morgan. Asks Trevelyan as a 'particular admirer of the fine literary qualities of Thomas's work' to send one, with 'a few lines of warm tribute'.

Langley Lodge, Pullens Lane, Headington Hill, Oxford - Apologises for the long delay in responding, he has had a series of operations; believes the 'Anthologia Anthopologica' will be valuable; agrees with her that Frazer's work should be recognised by the Royal Geographical Society but that the awards are made for field-work, not academic work, would be delighted if there was a way to bring it about. Accompanied by the envelope.

Bryntan, Rhoscolyn, Holyhead; forwarded on from The Shiffolds to the Royal Hotel, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth. - Pleased Trevelyan approves of 'Empedokles and the rest of the gallimaufry'. Will probably be at home for September and would love to see Trevelyan; thinks it unlikely they will be able to visit Scarbold [?]. "The Odyssey" the greatest of poems - at least when one is reading it.

7 Falkland House, London, W.8. - Asks if there is any up-to-date information on the date of the Sacaea festival in the time of Berosus.

RJ returns WW's proof ['Of a Liberal Education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge', 1845]: 'Certainly there is nothing in it that Lyell [Charles Lyell] can have the slightest right to complain of. There is one point on which I think you might have dilated and reproved a little more, with advantage. I mean his quietly taking it for granted that the system which best suits the best pupils is best, or fit for all - you have hit the point clearly enough for your best readers but have not kept it long enough in view for the mass. It deserves exposure and compleat exposure because it is at the bottom of half the nonsense talked and believed about education in general and Scotch and English education in particular and I know of old that no head is more mystified by the error than Lyell's'. WW should also speak more about 'the extent & objects of the "obedience & deference to authority" which you speak of in 120'. RJ describes the state of his health.

Visit to Italy as Royal Society Foreign Secretary, 12–13 October 1987

Trinity College. Memories of the death of Gordon Butler.

Return of Robert and Charlotte Mayor to England: Barnsbury Park

No enclosure.

'Examples - Pl Geometry', set of duplicated ms sheets for geometry classes 9 October - 11 December 1967.

Peterborough Deanery. Prize essays, reviews of George Grote's history of Greece suggests that it is better than that of Thirlwall.

Will do all he can to ensure the return of CJM for Gloucester, still tired by hundreds of miles of travel in Transcaucasus, in the case of Home Rule the men of Ulster will fight, to meet with Unionist Quakers

71 Onslow Square. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

30 Cumnor Hill, near Oxford.—Comments on the letter to himself in Greg’s book (Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing).

Currah - visit to see Aubrey de Vere, has been appointed High Sheriff, has had a long letter from [John] Sterling in Bordeaux

The second notebook of four into which G. N. Wilson copied chapters XII-XXI of Ramanujan's Notebook 2, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.105-107A. Envelope carries notes by B. M. Wilson.

Suggesting Sir Kenneth Pickthorn as a columnist for the Guardian and Church Quarterly Review