King's College, Cambridge. - Sorry to 'bombard' Bob: has seen Mr Bowes of Bowes & Bowes, the firm which usually publishes their acting editions, who says he cannot advise about printing until he knows whether Bob is going to do the whole translation. Asks if Bob can say as soon as possible: will hold off if he cannot decide yet, but it would be a 'great convenience' to be able to start printing; wants to know whether he can use Bob's "Agamemnon", cut as he has suggested [see 20/9], though modifications are possible as long as the length is not altered much and the 'musical scheme remains the same', and whether Bob will translate the parts of the "Choephoroe" and "Eumenides" needed. Also asks whether he has Bob's consent to negotiate with Bowes, or some other publisher; will submit any agreement to him for approval. Hopes that the effect of this abridged text on Bob's complete "Agamemnon" would be good; thinks that, with [Armstrong] Gibb's music, the 'abbreviated "Oresteia" has a good chance of being produced in both Greek and English, and hopes to do so himself one day at Cambridge. Would be a 'great help' to have Bob's estimate of when he could have the "Choephoroe" and "Eumenides" ready; would like to have the whole thing published in the autumn, if it can be done. It would be in a paper cover, with stage directions at a bare minimum and just a page at the beginning for Bob's 'editorial note' as it is necessary to keep costs down. Willing to meet Bob on 'every point of detail' to get his translation. Adds a note to say that Bowes thinks it possible that Macmillans might involve themselves in publication.
Headed notepaper for West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking. - The mystery is solved: his aunt, Mrs Alfred [?] has discovered that Agnes is leaving them to go to Shere and 'nurse a slight acquaintance who comes out of a Home on April 9th. Thirty days notice for this, after living with us thirty years'. Wondered what '"cook (single handed)" means' in their advertisement 'one hand, or in no need of assistance'. Thanks Bessie for her 'sympathy and help'.
Ride to Marathon, J R M Butler read Demosthenes on the Pnyx
Has warned the Speaker of CJM's supplementary question, situation in Greece
(Carbon copy of A2/4/2.)
Includes cutting "Turkey Joins the League" in Headway by I. Walter Collins, August 1932.
Stowe School - elected to debating society, not interested in Greek history, Christopher excited about trip to Switzerland, lecture on Russia.
Buckingham Palace Hotel. - Lady Galway asks her to send 'these precious letters' to Houghton; is 'glad to return to the son, a part of the debt I owe to the father'; knew the first Lord Houghton from 1869 until his death, and he was often a visitor at her house when in America; she gave him his 'first large reception' in New York and had the pleasure of being with him in Rome in 1885, when he wrote her the 'pretty Valentine' she now sends. Has 'never met so curious a combination of wit and tender heart'; thinks Houghton's 'own lines should be his epitaph: "A helping hand to the weak /A friendly hand to the friendless...'.
Has other letters of his at her country home and left them behind when she left hurriedly to reach London for the Jubilee and could not find them; asks if she may send them if she does.
Torquay.
(Place of writing not indicated.)—Returns Jerry’s letters.
55 Grosvenor Place. - Her son has failed an army examination; seeks nomination to a Militia Regiment with recommendation to a commission for 1879.
New Inn Hall, Oxford. - Met Houghton at Teddesley; seeks nomination as Queen's Messenger or House of Commons Clerk; father's ill health prevents his acting on writer's behalf.
Transcript
Contents
1. Text, pp. 1–12 (blue pencil numbering)
2. Your MS. of collation notes, pp. 2–5 (p. 1 you already have).
3a. Typescript, clean copy, of collation notes, pp. 3–10 (1–2 you have)
b. Marked copy (pp. 1–10) of same.
4. Queries concerning collation notes.
5. Puzzle page.
6. Some general queries.
7. Notes to Act I (I still have your MS. of these)
8. Queries re Notes.
9. Addendum to Richard III.
10. A suggestion in reply to one of your queries.
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Typed, except the entry marked ‘b’ and the ‘a’ of ‘3a’.
Has sent the bust [of Whewell?], the statue will be sent soon.
His reactions as a 'mere historian' to the 'annals' and Durkheim's Revue. Discusses Sidgwick's chapter in the Cambridge Modern History; their disagreement in relation to Bacon and Descartes and the development of modern politics. Also mentions Locke and Hobbes.
With four seals of the Ambassade d'Autriche, Londres.
Letter from Honorary Secretary of the British Empire Cancer Campaign requesting arrangements for entry of Sir Anthony to visit Uganda concerning a 'new form of tumour'
Therapia. - Does not have the authority to get Mr [Leader's?] protégé into the Turkish army; has only obtained a few posts; the Turks do not favour the admission of Christians into their services. Congratulations on marriage; Mrs Milnes' father was one of his earliest friends.
Colonial Office. - The Duke of Buckingham will consider [John?] Arthur for a Colonial appointment, but cannot offer the Chief Justiceship of Tobago.
With re-cast and re-assigned chapter headings.