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Chapman, S.

Includes copies of brief letters from C.C. Paterson and W.S. Tucker. 1937

Chaudhri, R. M. 1957-58

Announces that at the quarterly meeting of the Council of the British Economic Association, he was asked on their behalf to express to Nora Sidgwick their sense of the great loss that they have suffered 'by the death of Professor Sidgwick, who was from the outset a member of [the] Council, a contributor to the Economic Journal, and generally one of [their] most valued supporters'; Sidgwick also presided over their last Annual Meeting and Dinner in March 1900. Reports that an obituary notice is being prepared for the December number of the Economic Journal, or which a copy shall be sent to her. Adds that the Council wish him to express their sympathy to her in her bereavement.

Extract from Life of Nelson.

West House, Piddletrenthide, Dorchester - Offers the A. A. Vansittart Commonplace book (now Add. MS a.190/7).

Relief halftone, Cambridge Portrait Gallery No. 13 in the Supplement to the Gownsman

Title at head of poem. First lines: 'The time is not remote, when I/ Must by the course of nature, die...' A shortened version of Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

Monkhill House, near Pontefract. - Rev. Davy of Knottingley a deserving candidate for a better appointment.

Trinity College, Cambridge. - Has been going through his tutorial correspondence for the years 1928-1938; has destroyed most of it, but it has been suggested that 'anything concerning Wittgenstein's career might be worth preserving'. Adds footnote: has 'quite forgotten what the matter was which W. refers to in his letter of 25 October' [Add. MS a 745/6].

Discusses the Constitutional Convention and its functions. States that its most important aspect, from earliest times, has been that 'prominent men of each party' served it. Laments the fact that '[t]here has been a decided decline in the quality of the men sent to the last three conventions in New York'. Refers to the influence of men such as Platt and C[roker]. Refers to the referendum, and states that the legislature 'has become a caricature, and nearly all the states are trying to mitigate its evils by diminishing the number of its sessions. Informs Sidgwick that they have 'moved up to a house here for [our] last five weeks before sailing Sept. 3rd.'

Letters of John Babington to: his brother George Gisborne Babington, Nov. 1837; sister-in-law Sarah Babington, née Disney, Apr. 1833; father Thomas Babington, June 1822 and Apr. 1829; J. S. Elliott; brother-in-law James Parker, Nov. 1826; sister Mary, Jan. 1818-Nov. 1837; nephew Edward Joseph Rose, May 1880-Sept. 1881 (some copies; letter of 13 Apr. 1881 includes a partial transcript of a letter from Lydia Rose to her sister-in-law Charlotte Rose, 25 Feb. 1831).

Also letters from John Babington to his sister Lydia Rose, Feb. 1876-May 1879 (one including transcribed extract from the will of their sister Jean Babington); and niece Mary Ellen Rose, née Parker. Telegram from John Babington to Edward, Viscount Cardwell, Aug. 1852. Sermon preached by John Babington after the death of his brother in law Joseph Rose.

Letters of Joseph Babington to his brother Thomas Babington Dec. 1821-Dec. 1826, some with notes from his wife Catherine (née Whitter) to Thomas.

Seeking funds for excavation of the basilica of San Clemente, Rome.

Re Cyril Mowbray Wells

Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - '...you do not offer me congratulations on our successful resistance to the capture of the University by the Women.'