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The Grove, Watford. Appointment of Butler as Headmaster of Harrow

Trinity Lodge. Tributes to H M Butler, Mrs MacLeod [housekeeper] has looked at the house on Brookside and approves, wishes to stay in Cambridge because H M Butler loved it so much.

The Guest House [the Rest House crossed through], Chhatapur. - They came here on Wednesday and intended to leave today, but are delaying their departure for a few days since [Goldsworthy Lowes] Dickinson has been 'rather ill'. His digestion has suffered from the 'bad food [they] get in most places'; Robert however is well and has 'learnt what agrees' with him; hears the food will be better in Bengal. Chhatarpur is a 'delightful place', with the most beautiful countryside he has so far seen in India. Their host the Maharajah is a 'charming man, interested chiefly in philosophy and literature'; they have 'long talks' every afternoon he has 'a good deal of shrewdness, but has muddled his head rather by reading too much bad European philosophy'. His state is 'very well governed' by his ministers, though he seems little interested in it himself. On Wednesday they are going in his moto car to see some famous Hindu and Jain temples thirty miles away [at Khajuraho]. Will go to Benares on Friday or Saturday if Dickinson is well enough. Went out several miles into the jungle on an elephant yesterday with the Chief Justice, also the Maharaja's secretary; they saw no wild beasts, though there are 'often tigers and panthers about'; the jungle was 'very beautiful, not at all thick', and the elephant was 'rather less jolty than the Gwalior one' though he still finds travel by that mean 'inconceivably uncomfortable'. Will not get the mail from England before this letter needs to be sent; does not have a pen, since they left most of their luggage at the station, so is writing in pencil as all the pens here are bad. Will write next week from Benares or Gaya; supposes Bessie will have been to Wallington to collect Julian by the time his mother gets this; she seems to be having a good time in Holland.

He was cordially welcomed on his state entry to Calcutta yesterday, and he affirmed his confidence in Lord Ronaldshay to a deputation from the municipality. He believes his recent statements about the Graeco-Turkish situation have had a good effect, and that the non-co-operationists are undecided as to what they should do next. He will discuss the arrangements for the Prince of Wales’ arrival at Calcutta with Ronaldshay on the 24th. Malaviya met him at Benares and asked him to mitigate his recent pronouncements regarding intimidation and the determination to enforce the law, but Reading refused, drawing attention to the widespread hartals and the disturbances in Bombay. He hopes, however, that there will not be too much zeal to arrest. He will discuss Bengal finances with Hailey next week, and is considering calling a meeting of all the Provincial Governments to discuss the matter.

(A cutting from a larger document.)

Refers to A3/27/9. Has replied to A3/27/5. Is distressed to hear the view that they were frightened to strike against the ringleaders, but is sure that Montagu did his best to explain the situation to the King. Colonel Kaye reports that the situation in Lahore has improved. Discusses the engagements arranged for the Prince there.

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(Contains a reference to the printed version of ‘The Theoretical Values of the Physical Constants’, published in Nov. 1942. Cf. B3/19).

National Museum of Canada, Ottawa - Thanks them for the book 'Heures du Loisir'.

4 The University, Glasgow - Thanks them for their hospitality; found Marett's [Frazer] lecture to be most useful, particularly his defence of Tylor's theory.

FRAZ/11 consists of two boxes containing materials relating to the Macmillan edition of the 'Fasti' of Ovid, spanning the dates [1928?]-1930, including drafts of the Preface, Commentary, footnotes, and related notes and cuttings.

Bound volume containing notes in Frazer's hand for the third edition of 'The Golden Bough'. Turned upside down and started from the back cover are two drafts of the preface to the third edition.

Ballydian, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan, Ireland - Presents a copy of his Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology [not present]; has travelled in Nigeria, West Africa, among the Yoruba and the Nez Percé Indians of Idaho.

Wolverhampton Art and Industrial Exhibition, 1902, Gresham Chambers, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton. - His book is one of verse, to be published by Grant Richards and entitled "Salt-Water Ballads"]; thinks it should be out by the end of November. Cannot read another book until the pictures are all returned. Is just finishing the "Memoirs of Count Grammont" which he finds very Pepysian. Does not know whether Trevelyan will like his poems: they are very 'rough and tumble' with not much romance about them. Tells an anecdote about a sailor who, when asked whether he was a dance, answered that he was 'an ancient Priton' [sic].

Copied out, as if for instruction or punishment. In unidentified hands.

Formally entitled 'The Bishop and the Bogey'.

Letter from Mary St Leger Harrison dated 26 Aug. 1917.

(Brown’s article is headed, ‘A. E. Housman. “The Shropshire Lad”’.)

MS draft of a lecture, given while at Manchester.