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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].

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

MS draft of a lecture, given while at Manchester.

Public Record Office.—Has informed the Queen’s printers (Eyre & Spottiswoode) of the inconvenience to which Aldis Wright would be put by their mode of printing, and encloses their answer.

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Public Record Office
12th Jany 1875

My dear Mr Aldis Wright

I wrote to the Queen’s Printers on the subject of the inconvenience to which you would be put, by their mode of printing, and I enclose their answer {1} so I hope every thing will proceed according to your desire

Yours very truly
T. Duffus Hardy

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{1} Add. MS b. 74/11/12.

(Cambridge.)—Discusses the relation of ‘sceaðen’, which seems to be a hapax legomenon, to words in Middle English and Icelandic.
(Undated. Postmarked at Cambridge on 30 Mar. 1885.)

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Sceaðen seems to be a hapax legomenon. As a fact, the A.S. sceaða [masc. = one who harms] took the secondary sense of “harm” when it passed into the M.E. skathe, because it became identical with M.E. skathe [= Icel. skaþi, masc. = harm, damage]. See Stratmann, p. 437: Layamon, 25691.—Strictly, Icel. skaþi = A.S. sceðð, by umlaut of a to e. Bosworth gives sceðð, but no reference.

W. W. Skeat.

[Direction:] W. Aldis Wright Esqre | Trinity College | Cambridge [At the foot:] Local.

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Postmarked at Cambridge on 30 March 1885.

Marienhaus, Latham Road, Cambridge. - For tuition in the Easter Vacation, 1914, three pounds thirteen shillings and sixpence. Note at bottom records that the cheque from Onslow was sent in on10 May 1914.

Promises to do his best to give Dr Frefort 'the latest academic ideas' if Patterson sends him to Sidgwick with an introduction. Warns that, being in the vacation, he will have to take his chance of finding people there. States that he does not know any else here whom Patterson knows, except Sedley Taylor. Suggests that, through Bryce, he might find out who there is at Oxford to help him. (2 docs)

Sir Anthony acted as a College Advisor to students. Meetings, social functions, reports, personal notes, and letters