'Par le coeur tres pres de vous ce soir' [the opening night of 'Amadeus'].
Extract from article referring to Synge.
(An engraved form, filled up by hand, including an engraving of the Museum by E. H. New, 1910.)
ConferenceComparative statement of the main recommendations of the Simon Commission Report and the Round Table Conference
From 1759, re visit to Oxford, 'I have proposed to Vansittart climbing over the wall, but he refused me'.
Acknowledges £5. Contains French addresses noted by Milnes.
38 Clarges St. - Sets down enquiry which Milnes agreed to place before Mignet or Guizot; found reference in the second edition of the Handbook of Spain, which does not favour Mignet; will write separately if appropriate. Appends enquiry about obtaining access to Gonzalez' abstract of letters written by companions of Charles V to Secretary Vasquez, said to be in Mignet's possession, for a life of Don Juan of Austria.
The New Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. - Cannot repeat arrangements here next year as the Viceroy [Isma'il Pasha] has acquired the building for a school; he favours the idea of an English sanitorium; support from the Earl of Dudley or Sir Henry Bulwer would assure her success; can Houghton assist, as they cannot be reached at present? Also seeks Houghton's recommendation to the Viceroy's surgeon Dr Bourgier and others.
Ticks, some crossed through, and other annotations in pencil and red crayon. Many items are marked 'B'; a note states that these were bequeathed to Trinity by Rev. G. A. Browne, Vice-Master, in 1843. Signature of Anatole von Hügel [Curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology] acknowledging receipt of items on 27 May 1914 at the bottom of the sixth sheet. The last sheet is a note by C. B. Hurry, Sub-Librarian, listing items which were found some years after 1914 'tucked away in dark corners' and 'sent (as part of the loan of 1914)' to the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology on 5 May 1924.
Highgate. - Encloses a correction slip [no longer present] for p 214 of his book of translations from Italian.
Letter, 15 Oct. 1883, from J. W. L. Glaisher to the mother of a young man who may wish to become a student at Trinity, explaining what needs to be done to seek admission, the unlikelihood of his getting a college room in his first year, and the difficulty of estimating an undergraduate's expenditure. Enclosing a printed sheet with information on the entrance examinations to be held in Jan. 1884; a certificate at the bottom is to be to be filled in and returned to the College Tutor. There is also a printed folded sheet with information relating to non-collegiate students at Cambridge.
The prospective student is most likely William Hastings Bagshaw, son of William Edward Bradshaw of Pitt Place, Epsom, given the provenance of the documents; he was admitted as a student at Cambridge in October 1884, but at Pembroke rather than Trinity. His mother was Maria Roberts Bagshawe.
Congratulations on engagement.
(Carbon copy.)
Dorchester Hotel, W.1.—Thanks him for his encouraging comments (on his appointment as ambassador at Washington), and reflects on the challenges of his new post.