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Venice. - Is very sorry to hear the news [the death of the Trevelyan's daughter Susan] and hopes Elizabeth Trevelyan is all right; would like to hear. Is having a good time, and hopes to go on to various other Italian towns such as Ferrara, Ravenna and Faenza.

77 rue Gambetta, Loos [on mourning stationery] - Congratulates Frazer on the new honour [Order of Merit]; is at the conferences given by the University of Lille on the relationship between French and English scholars where Frazer is not forgotten; 'Le Folklore dans l'Ancien Testament' is published, may the reviews be kind to the translator.

[headed notepaper] Secretary for Scotland, Dover House, Whitehall. - Thanks Robert for his letter; has told Caroline about the train. Will be at Welcombe and very glad to see him. Sir George is responsible for recommending a candidate to the Queen for the new professorship of English Literature at Aberdeen, which must be filled before the end of the year; will be happy to hear frim Mr [Walter?] Raleigh.

(i) The annexed telegram about Amritsar must be sent to avoid delay.

(ii) General Dyer’s conduct in firing at Amritsar has been criticised because he is reported to have said that the crowd might have dispersed without being fired on, and because the Criminal Procedure Code forbids the use of unnecessary force to disperse a crowd. Dyer’s defenders, including O’Dwyer, allege that his action prevented disorder elsewhere in the Punjab. Asks Chelmsford to advise his own view of accepted practice, in order that Montagu may express an opinion when the report emerges.

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WE accepts the invitation to attend the celebrations surrounding the tercentenary of the foundation of Trinity College.

Trinity College - WW gives his and George Peacock's travel plans for this summer. The latter 'sometimes talks rather wildly of going to Norway'. WW is thinking of printing which will entail him spending much of the vacation in Cambridge. If RJ is not leaving Brighton both WW and Peacock will probably visit him. 'How goes on your political economy? - I hope we are to see and hear something of it before long'.

Carnarvon - WW is glad that HJR is also employed taking students on an educational tour, and hopes HJR has been 'running up a proper quantity of Scotch metaphysics and Greek history with your lines and circles. If your metaphysical examiner be a man of the same kidney as ours was[,] your best plan by far is to read the article metaphysics in the Encyc. Brit. till you can write out a regular syllabus of it[,] for such would the answer to our paper have been - at all events it will be as good a guide as you can have. As to the philology the Port Royal Latin grammar and Harris' Hermes are the fountain for wh. they generally derive it'. Brown's [Thomas Brown] paper was derived from the first of these works. Will WW find HJR at Cambridge in October? WW has accepted the office of lecturer [in mathematics].

Taken by Herbert Lambert, Bath.

Finds his wife [Isla Blair] whom Peter doesn't know, has written the letter he wanted to write, as an acquaintance of Peter's; 'The Battle of Shrivings' is the play he has been waiting for, one that addresses the issues of the times, without imposing a solution; finds that it picks up themes from 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun' and explores them, watched an interview with Peter on television and hopes he won't abandon the idea of a play addressing the Faust problem; played Atahuallpa in Bristol and was grateful to get close to the text and Peter's mind; will be going again to the play with his mother.

A mix of green duplicated typescript and original typescript pages heavily revised by Shaffer. The title, on a duplicated typescript page, has been changed from 'The Battle of Shrivings' to 'Shrivings.'

Folder labelled "Yonadab Oxford Revisions and my re-structure," and includes pages of revisions to the published text, as performed by Oxford University Dramatic Society, Oxford Playhouse, 31 January - February 1995.

Comb binding includes a letter from Rosenthal to Shaffer dated 5 Apr. 2013 inviting emendations. Shaffer has revised the pages throughout.

Material assembled by I. M. James during the preparation of his Royal Society memoir of Adams, with letters from Tony Bahri (includes photograph of Adams on top of a sculpture in 1983), Geoffrey Best, Peter Bousfield, and A. B. Clegg.

AS is up to his ears with examination papers.

Comfortably situated at Galle, description of the area, Samuel Lambrick confronts an elephant, cultivation of rice, curry the staple diet, local economy capable of improvement, local fruit and vegetables, many of the locals have been baptized but are ignorant of the Gospel, local Buddhists, Benjamin Ward in Carpentayn, engaged in establishing schools: Point de Galle

Offer of presentment to the incumbency of Acton with Davenham, description of parish, would like to see John Cooper presented to Coppenhall, comparison of the two parishes, will have the support of local landowners at Acton: Coppenhall nr Nantwich

Visit to Edward Bickersteth in Norwich, taking music lessons from Mr Beckworth: Norwich

Bertram Robert Mayor's accident in a coach, Robert B Mayor broke down during his sermon

Illness of Georgina Allix Mayor, visit to [Mary Anna Mayor] [enclosed with B21/10]