Chapman, S.
Includes copies of brief letters from C.C. Paterson and W.S. Tucker. 1937
Chaudhri, R. M. 1957-58
Typescript sheets
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.
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745), writer and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, DublinOriginally enclosing notes by Emily Jourdain on Bartolini's bust of Byron.
West House, Piddletrenthide, Dorchester - Offers the A. A. Vansittart Commonplace book (now Add. MS a.190/7).
Jackson, Sir Henry Cholmondeley (1879-1972) Knight, GeneralDrafts of poems and printed poems by Shilleto, Robert Burn, Sir William Hamilton, Morris Moore, Richard Okes, as well as those signed with initals only: J. B., H., and W. S. [William Selwyn?]. Poems include Hamilton's "Sonnet on the Meeting of the British Association at Cambridge, 1833", W. S.'s "Experience of Magnetic Belt", four lines by H. starting "The Lytteltons give all the time up to cricket," Robert Burn's "Piscator," Morris Moore junor's formal address to Thompson, 30 July 1869. On the verso of one set of poems is a printed list of freshmen, 1882.
The collection also includes a letter (in French) dated 9 March 1869 from A. Bos, Italian translator of G. H. Lewes's Physiology of Common Life asking about a report from the Evening Standard that the students have been served donkey at Trinity.
The collection is accompanied by two letters from W. Wollaston Groome to Mr Dykes dated May 1919 relating to the provenance of the verses, and his personal memories of W. H. Thompson.
27 Rutland St., Hampstead Road - Woolner 'rejoices' that Adam Sedgwick has consented to allowing him to do 'his head in sculpture'. The modelling will probably take a fortnight. Glad Clark likes his photographs and frame.
(Oxford?)—Suggests examples of books before 1750 containing illustrations, for the bibliography.
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Bibliography slip 32
Illustrations before 1750:
Portraits of course, e.g. in:
Drummond’s Works Paris {1} 1709
Pope’s Works 1717
etc. etc.
Fancy Pictures. Rape of the Lock 1714.
Thomson 1730—the four Seasons
Young Night Thoughts 1742—one plate
Pope’s Works Vol. II 1735—tailpieces etc. by Kent
Gay’s Poems 1720
[Gay's] {2} Shepherd’s Week
Philip’s Cyder
[The preceding three lines are braced on the right to:] all rustic subjects | Gay’s Fables!
Rowe’s Quean {1} I think has an allegorical frontispiece.
This is from memory—I think you must modify.
24:12:26 RWC
RBMcK
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{1} Reading uncertain.
{2} Represented by a ditto mark in the original.
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].
Newspaper photograph of Choristers in the 1890s with schoolmaster identified as Mr James, dated 1 June 1927, and a copy photograph of P. W. Filby in choristers' clothes, c. 1923.
Concerns the formation, constitution, membership, records of early meetings of The Yacht Research Council. Taylor was a founder member of the Council, and Chairman of the Committee on Sail Design. Includes related correspondence, and a copy of a brochure on the Council's work, 1961. Includes letters from H. M. Barkla, W. J. M. Borthwick, Sir Cecil Bouchier, and John Morwood.
Two photographs on one album page. Photo of Head of River crew of men in suits in a photographer's studio, identified in the caption as W. H. Anderson, E. A. Hoare, J. C. Colvill, J. D. Inverarity, F. Ayers, A. Barratt, J. H. H. Moxon, W. J. Pinckney, and J. L. Seager. Photo of the crew of the Black Prince shows men identified in the caption as R. F. Gordon, W. J. Pinckney, S. P. Foster (Coach), A. Barratt, W. A. V. Bagshawe, W. H. Anderson, J. D. Inverarity, F. Ayers, J. L. Seager, and E. A. Hoare. With caption at bottom and top with description of the races.
10 offprints and a cutting.
1934a (With H. Quinney) 'The latent energy remaining in a metal after cold working.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 143, 307-326. (SP I, 19)
b 'Faults in a material which yields to shear stress while retaining its volume elasticity.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 145, 1-18. (SP I, 20). With emendations
c-d 'The mechanism of plastic deformation of crystals. I. Theoretical. II. Comparison with observations.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 145, 362-404. (SP I, 21-22)
e 'The strength of rock salt.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 145, 405-415. (SP I, 23)
f 'A theory of the plasticity of crystals.' Zeitschrift für Kristallographie A 89, 375-385. (SP I, 24)
g 'The formation of emulsions in definable fields of flow.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 146, 501-523. (SP IV, 11). With emendations in pencil.
h 'The holding power of anchors.' Yachting Monthly and Motor Boating Magazine. (SP IV, 12)
1935b 'Turbulence in a contracting stream.' Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 15, 91-96. (SP II, 26)
c-f 'Statistical theory of turbulence. I-II. III. Distribution of dissipation of energy in a pipe over its cross-section. IV. Diffusion in a turbulent air stream.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 151, 421-478. (SP II, 27-30)
g 'Distribution of velocity and temperature between concentric rotating cylinders.' Proceedings of the Royal Society, A 151, 494-512. (SP II, 31)
i Obituary of Sir Horace Lamb, Nature, 16 Feb. 1935. Cutting
'1 leaf containing Atonement Piyyutim... Askhenazic hand' [description of MS from Add.MS a 40/25].
(With an envelope.)
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Trinity College, 5 Feb. 1927
Dear Semple,
It will probably be most convenient for you if I put down in writing what there is to say about Sidonius ep. VIII 11 9. It is the case that he is making a show of knowledge which he does not possess, and using terms which he does not quite understand.
thema is the position of the heavens and all the heavenly bodies at the instant of the birth. geniturae schema is the same thing; schema itself is a more general term, though sometimes used for thema, as also genitura sometimes is. constellatio properly means only the relative position of the seven planets, but practically comes to the same thing. diastemata zodiaca are probably not the 12 signs of the zodiac but the 12 τόποι into which it was divided at the birth, of which I give an account in my 2nd book of Manilius pp. xxix–xxxi.
asyndetus is rightly explained by Sirmond, and has the same sense in the passage you cite from Rufinus. It is not inconsistent with super diametro, because a planet might be in the diametrically opposite τόπος (or sign) and might nevertheless be asyndetus because not at the diametrically opposite point; in technical language not μοιρικῶς or partiliter opposite.
retrogradus you explain correctly, but it is not only the outer planets which retrograde: Venus and Mercury do so, though to a less extent.
apocatastaticus in itself is a vague term, applicable to anything moving in a circle and so arriving at a spot where it has been before. If it here has a precise meaning, it probably is that Mars was in the middle of Scorpius, which is the position he occupied at the creation of the world.
super centro, ἐπίκεντρος, is the opposite of asyndetus, and means configurated, whether by diameter or trigon or tetragon or possibly hexagon. A planet thus placed is best able to exert its influence; and the influence of Mars is malefic. Sidonius apparently supposed the sense of the word to be something more special than it is.
amici nascentis anno and erexerat and in occasu taken together seem to be mere gabble, for of course planets have no annual rising or setting. inrubescentes is another piece of nonsense, Saturn being dull white in fact and black in astrological fiction.
I am nearing the end of my troubles and shall be able to see you at 6 o’clock on Tuesday the 15th if you like to come.
Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.
[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | St John’s College
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On the back of the envelope, which is not stamped or postmarked, are various abortive and corrected Latin verses (not in Housman’s hand), apparently written in the process of composing a dedicatory inscription.
On India
(There are two cuttings, one containing a notice of the publication of Preston’s Picture of Yarmouth in 1819, the other an account of his installation as Mayor of Yarmouth on 2 Oct. 1828.)
Thanks Monk for his congratulations on his appointment as Governor-General of India
Four exterior views: of the Avenue; the fountain, chapel and Great Gate; the Great Gate from Trinity Street; the western side of New Court with small tree in centre. Interior of Hall looking towards the dais. Previously framed, with framers label preserved for J. H. Priest, 10 & 11 Bridge Street, Cambridge.
Informs George Grote of his debt to Countess de Salis inherited from Sir Henry Blossett: Norwich
Started to learn about Hindu customs and language on board ship, native character, sublime moral precepts of the Hindus
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.
Higgs, Henry (1864-1940), civil servant and economistBritish Museum, London, W.C.1. - Concerning the diaries of A. E. Housman - information which 'will make it possible for you to answer Andrew Gow'.