Correspondence on various articles by Frisch for Penguin Science News, The Times Science Review, Science Survey, etc.
(Two messages.)
Headed notepaper for 148 Piccadilly. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.
Broadlands. - Will Hayward offer Napier [Macvey Napier, of the Edinburgh Review] an article by Milnes on Custine's Russia?; has just returned from 'the Land's End'.
Seeking aid for publication by Yorkshire Architectural Society.
Madeira - Spring-Rice remarkably well, Funchal, Brookfield misses his daily work, Trench's "little book", amazement at a thirty year old woman who has never read a word of Shakespeare, is being very idle but doing much riding and playing a little billiards, reading Maurice's Kingdom of Christ
Normandy Farm. Requires 3 1/2 tons of bonemeal
With correspondence re book with H.B. Hartley
34 Upper Hamilton Terrace, N.W.8. - Congratulates Frazer, notes 'Cambridge has done well in the list'.
The Folk-Lore Society - The Society's Library has received a £600 from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, asks his advice on books which ought to be bought; only has 3 of the 12 volumes of 'The Golden Bough'.
Accompanied by the envelope redirected from Trinity College to Hotel Terminus, Gare St Lazare, Paris.
19 Rue de Chartres, Neuilly (Seine) - Heard Frazer speak at the British Institute, sends him a copy of an article in 'La Dépêche de Brest' [not present] in which he mentions one of Frazer's books.
Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Glad to have news of Paul; the photograph of him touching Theodore's foot is 'delicious'. The new MP for Hexham, [Richard Durning] Holt and his wife, are staying at Wallington, as are: Aunt Annie [Philips]; Josephine Lawson; the younger Hugh Bell, in whom Sir George has 'discovered a great likeness to [Edward] Bowen' and thinks it 'extends to character'; and Sir Francis Blake. He and Caroline are 'much interested about [Laurence] Binyon'; wonders if [Sidney?] Colvin thinks he is 'breaching on Stephen Phillips's domain'. Glad Robert liked what he saw of [Macaulay's] "Marginal Notes", which Sir George has now typed up; Longmans are going to publish it.
Lancaster - WW hopes to be in Hertford by the 12th or 13th. How is RJ's work on wages progressing?: 'I hope you still keep your intention of being ready for another explosion in the course of the winter'. WW wants to know 'whether that Scotchman' [John Lockhart] will publish his review of RJ in the Quarterly Review.
2 pp. typescript and 2 pp. ms. notes 'Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad'.
2 pp. typescript and 1 p. ms. notes 'Damascus. Electron Diffraction'.
London.—Advises him of an alteration in the the time of the Council meeting.
Fourways, Gomshall, Surrey.
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