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Has got '11 fox caterpillars', and one of the new boys, Hicks, has lent him his breeding cage. The new boys are Holt, Rumbolt, Fleming, Mr Wilkins' son, [Tom] Booth 'a cousin of ours', and Hicks, who is the 'only new boy in the third'. They had honey for tea yesterday.

The Park, Prestwich, Manchester. - Thinks Bob should see the enclosed letters from Miss [Meta] Gaskell [19/22] and Mr Broadfield [no longer present] which she received last week. Has bought six copies of his play ["Bride of Dionysus"] which she is sending to friends whom she thinks will admire it; expects he has had 'endless letters of congratulations' from his 'many friends'. Sends love to Elizabeth; expects she is still at Hove and hopes the sea air does her and Julian good after the 'trying' winter. Would very much to see them all later if they can visit.

King's College, Cambridge. - Sorry to 'bombard' Bob: has seen Mr Bowes of Bowes & Bowes, the firm which usually publishes their acting editions, who says he cannot advise about printing until he knows whether Bob is going to do the whole translation. Asks if Bob can say as soon as possible: will hold off if he cannot decide yet, but it would be a 'great convenience' to be able to start printing; wants to know whether he can use Bob's "Agamemnon", cut as he has suggested [see 20/9], though modifications are possible as long as the length is not altered much and the 'musical scheme remains the same', and whether Bob will translate the parts of the "Choephoroe" and "Eumenides" needed. Also asks whether he has Bob's consent to negotiate with Bowes, or some other publisher; will submit any agreement to him for approval. Hopes that the effect of this abridged text on Bob's complete "Agamemnon" would be good; thinks that, with [Armstrong] Gibb's music, the 'abbreviated "Oresteia" has a good chance of being produced in both Greek and English, and hopes to do so himself one day at Cambridge. Would be a 'great help' to have Bob's estimate of when he could have the "Choephoroe" and "Eumenides" ready; would like to have the whole thing published in the autumn, if it can be done. It would be in a paper cover, with stage directions at a bare minimum and just a page at the beginning for Bob's 'editorial note' as it is necessary to keep costs down. Willing to meet Bob on 'every point of detail' to get his translation. Adds a note to say that Bowes thinks it possible that Macmillans might involve themselves in publication.

Headed notepaper for West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking. - The mystery is solved: his aunt, Mrs Alfred [?] has discovered that Agnes is leaving them to go to Shere and 'nurse a slight acquaintance who comes out of a Home on April 9th. Thirty days notice for this, after living with us thirty years'. Wondered what '"cook (single handed)" means' in their advertisement 'one hand, or in no need of assistance'. Thanks Bessie for her 'sympathy and help'.

Ride to Marathon, J R M Butler read Demosthenes on the Pnyx

(Carbon copy of A2/4/2.)

Includes cutting "Turkey Joins the League" in Headway by I. Walter Collins, August 1932.

Transcript

Contents

1. Text, pp. 1–12 (blue pencil numbering)

2. Your MS. of collation notes, pp. 2–5 (p. 1 you already have).

3a. Typescript, clean copy, of collation notes, pp. 3–10 (1–2 you have)

b. Marked copy (pp. 1–10) of same.

4. Queries concerning collation notes.

5. Puzzle page.

6. Some general queries.

7. Notes to Act I (I still have your MS. of these)

8. Queries re Notes.

9. Addendum to Richard III.

10. A suggestion in reply to one of your queries.

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Typed, except the entry marked ‘b’ and the ‘a’ of ‘3a’.

Letter from Honorary Secretary of the British Empire Cancer Campaign requesting arrangements for entry of Sir Anthony to visit Uganda concerning a 'new form of tumour'

Returned to England

Grendon House, (Northants.).—Has found the plant known in his neighbourhood as ‘clench’ in Anne Pratt’s Wild Flowers, where it is called the corn crowfoot. Discusses its character.

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Grendon House
Tuesday Evening

My dear Sir,

After a good search this evening I have found in the 1st volume of Wild Flowers by Anne Pratt {1}, what in this neighbourhood we call Clench, or Corn Crowfoot as it is described here, it is quite different to the Creeping Crowfoot which you often see land almost as it were tied together with when badly farmed, this roots very near the surface & is easily hoed up when young, it grows about a foot high & bears a small yellow flower about half the size of the Buttercup, but its most striking feature & one which you cannot mistake it by are its very large & prickly seed-vessels which succeed the flower, & which if allowed to ripen and shed in the land takes some years to get rid of, Lime just fresh from the kiln liberally applied is the best and cheapest remedy when land gets infested with it,

Believe me | yrs faithfully
J. L. Wright

W. Aldis Wright Esqre

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The information in this letter was embodied in the following note by Aldis Wright printed in Notes and Queries on 12 Nov. 1887 (p. 387):

‘CLENCH.—A few weeks since I found this word in use at Grendon, Northamptonshire, to describe a common weed which is the especial enemy of the farmer. It is not mentioned in Miss Baker’s “Northamptonshire Glossary,” or in Britten and Holland’s “English Plant Names,” pub-lished by the English Dialect Society; but the kindness of a friend has enabled me to identify it with the corn crowfoot (Ranunculus arvensis of Linnæus), which is known by many opprobrious names.’

{1} First published by SPCK in two volumes, 1852-3, and frequently reprinted.

Sales of various editions of Speeches, Essays and History of England.

By Lyon Barnes & Ellis. Endorsement requiring the document to be ingrossed in duplicate on 8 Feb. 1860.

On embossed House of Commons notepaper. - George [Trevelyan] has just told him that Napier has 'declined to correspond any further on the subject of Lord Macaulay's letters; advice as to future action.

Judith Wilberforce has given birth to a daughter, busy time with visitors, new Irish maid getting on well, Arthur [Monk] missing feared dead

Includes financial materials and Sir Anthony's copies of official university correspondence and Medical Research Council correspondence.

Report, evidence, and supporting papers of the Inquiry into the emergency and identification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD) and the action taken in response to it up to 20 March 1996.
Part 1: Volume 1 Findings and Conclusions
Part 2: Volume 2 Science
Part 3: Volume 4: The Southwood Working Party, 1988–89