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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.

Offprint from "Notes and Queries", 10 Aug 1940: "A Translation of Aeneid V!., 724-751", George. G. Loane.
Another version of Loane's translation, in Loane's own hand, which differs in several places from the printed text; this is followed, with the heading '(Gilding for the pill?)'. by Loane's translation of "Anth[ologia] Pal[atina]" V.51

The White Gates. - Has been reading through the '1947 Xmas book' ["From the Shiffolds"]: thinks it a 'very fine collection'; names the poems he particularly likes. Adeline wants him to tell Bob 'how much she likes "Dandelions"'. Bob may have heard that their friend Raynor has been given a hundred pounds by the Musician's Benevolent Fund. They send love to Bessie.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Relieved all well about the measles; does not think it will spread and is glad the little girl [May Enticknap: see 46/174] is getting better. Would very much like to see Julian; expects he will soon be crawling. Mary goes home tomorrow; she has been very good, and much amused her grandfather, with whom she has long conversations. Sidney Lee stayed last night; the Ernest Trevelyans are coming from Oxford on Sunday. C[harles] and M[ary] cannot come till Sunday morning as it is 'the Ministerial ?Amusement'. She and Sir George will go up to town about the 22nd; she has a ticket for Elizabeth for the concert then. Sends her regards if Mrs Hubrecht [wife of Ambrosius Hubrecht?] is still there; had thought it was 'Mrs Jan' staying with Elizabeth. Glad her son's [Jan or Paul?] expedition is interesting. Hopes Mr Carter recovers soon. Sends love to Robert; hopes 'the musician with the striking name [Benvingut Socias i Mercadé, see 46/174] ' is pleasant. 'What praise of Strauss's new opera ["Elektra"]!'. A postscript saying she is glad 'Patterson succeeded'.

Field Ambulance, 4th London Mted Brigade - Draws Frazer's attention, as a member of the General Committee, to changes in the administration of the French Relief Fund.

19 Avenue du Progrès, Vanves (Seine) - Thanks him for 'The Worship of Nature' and admires it; accepts Frazer's proposal to translate the book into French.

Weybridge. - Has not yet gone to W[est] H[ackhurst] because of his mother's lumbago; would like Trevelyan to visit when he does go as he wants to hear about 'Gilgamesh et cie'. Thanks Trevelyan for invitations. Has 'laid in a stock of these p[ost] c[ards]'.

Part 1: British Virgin Islands. Thirty-Second Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Research Council Meeting, 21–27 April 1987, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
Part 2: New York. Bristol-Myers Cancer Research Award Ceremonies, 27–28 April 1987
Part 3: Toronto. Visit to deliver the Seventh Annual J.F. Paterson Memorial Lecture, 28–29 April 1987, University of Toronto Clinic, Sunnybrook Hospital
Part 4: Southborough, Massachusetts. Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting, Harvard Medical School's New England Regional Primate Research Center, 29 April–1 May 1987
Part 5: Travel itinerary, insurance, airline tickets, and expenses

Memorial of George Henry Ellis on application made by Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan.

5 St Mary's Passage, Cambridge - has got a ticket for second Wagner cycle at Covent Garden with Bayreuth conditions to be reproduced as far as possible, reading lots of Wagner literature, rewriting dissertation for third time.

Enjoying the Long Vacation in Cambridge, idleness banished from Cambridge, reading Thucydides and doing composition with Shilleto, weekly examinations in classics and mathematics

Declines dinner invitation; will be out of town on the 9th.

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated June 22, 1895 - Refers to a sacrifice being commuted; a 'regular' fire walk in Bulgaria; mentions sulfuric acid 'would do it': this from [Edward] Clodd, who heard it from Sir R. Richardson.

Re Edwin Atherstone. Printed copy of letter, 9 Feb. 1855, with copy reply, 13 Feb [1855].

Ovington Rectory, Thetford. Dated 20 November 1915 - Has made two attempts to answer her letter, thinks it would be a grave mistake to shield James from [William] Ridgeway's book ['Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races '?]; says he will be happy to write thank you notes to his book's guarantors; fixes a day to visit; will take up the matter of the Gifford Lectures.