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Watts Gallery, Compton, Guildford. - Thanks Trevelyan for his 'kind Christmas gift' [this year's "From the Shiffolds"?]. Hopes to see him when he returns from London. Adds a postscript asking if Trevelyan knows [Lacy?] Collison-Morley, an 'elderly man learned in Italian' whom Alston would like to bring for a visit if Trevelyan is 'agreeable'.

Wixenford, Eversley, Winchfield:- Luckily his time in London this holidays coincides with the Trevelyans' return: he will be able to come to the Admiralty on the 18th [April] and try to be there for 11 am. Miss Bartlett (the matron) will be glad to have instructions about health, and asks what infectious diseases Bobbie has had. Thinks he mentioned that the school will 'meet after Easter on April 21st'; a master will always travel on the 2.05 train from Wixenford to escort boys whose parents wish it, but expects she will be able to bring Bobbie herself this first time. His wife joins him in 'kind regards'.

Brook Street - Thanks WW for the 3rd volume of his Platonic Dialogues. HH thinks WW should undertake a similar project for Aristotle: 'The fame of his logic etc, in the scholastic ages obscured the higher merits of his writings, - and hardly until Cuvier's appeal to his books...did we know any thing in this country of his marvellous prowess in Natural History'. Obviously WW knows a great deal about these things as he frequently displays in his works on the Inductive Sciences: 'But I feel desirous to press the suggestion I have ventured to offer; finding from intercourse even with men of science, that they are far less aware than they might to be of those remarkable anticipations of the knowledge of our time'.

Example of Edward Bickersteth's holiness: Collingham

Canvassing WW's support for his 'Course of Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution which I have solicited the permission of the Vice Chancellor to deliver at Cambridge'. JT has 'devoted a considerable portion of the last thirty years to the purpose of establishing the Theory and Accomplishment of oral utterance upon Scientific Principles, deducible from the laws, or necessities of organic structure and action, and the consequent inherent principles of prosodial harmonics'. He wants to bring his findings - 'I may say discoveries' - to the attention of men of science like WW.

Re Refereeing.

Keppel Street - The instruments [for the Magnetic Observatory] are likely to be ready by the end of October. CB has made some enquiries for an assistant to Mr. Glaisher, the superintendent of the Magnetic department at Greenwich Observatory. A respectable assistant will not be got for much less than £120 per year. Glaisher 'observed that at that salary, they seldom kept long those who were worth keeping; and if they did remain there, it was only for the sake of retaining the name of 'Assistant at the Royal Observatory' as a stepping stone to something better'. Some final details to consider before the plan of the building is finally settled.

Notebook continuation of 110

Asks Sraffa if he intends to go to Czechoslovakia to help with the situation there. If so Wittgenstein would like to accompany him.

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated April 15 - Wonders if he should add a chapter on myths and the origin of death to an unidentified work.

Sends £20 cheque, CJM's "Hardwick property"

No. 5 Sion Row, Twickenham, Middlesex - Suggests that the sacred fires mentioned in 'The Golden Bough' are related to the ritual of Holy Week ceremonies.

Miscellaneous early correspondence, mainly cards, letters, greetings from Frisch's parents.

Sent to Childers by Durrant's Press Cuttings agency. A response to Stephen Frewen's piece of 23 May 1910.

Thanks Mallet for his long letter [94/111]. Contends that the latter exaggerates the extent of their disagreement in relation to various aspects of political and economic theory, with regard to, e.g., dispensing distributive justice, private capital employed in production. Refers also to what he [Sidgwick] says in chapter seven [of his book] on 'the "increasing inequalities" ', and acknowledges that the statement should be further explained, as Mallet 'understood it to contradict the conclusions of Giffen.' Claims that there is 'no such contradiction', and outlines what he believes Giffen attempted to prove in relation to the income of manual labourers, referring to the increasing difference between the highest and the lowest class of that group. Denies that he 'has "ignored the international point of view" in what [he says] of the nationalisation of the land.' Claims that '[t]he claim of the rest of the human race on the land now held by Englishmen is not in any way implicitly denied by the agreement of Englishmen to hold their land in common', and that it would only be affected by the prevention of immigration into England. Refers to his own paper read at the Political Economy Club. [Incomplete].

States that she would be happy to see Mr Myers with him any Sunday. Claims that Sidgwick's judgment about what she does will always be a matter of interest to her. Maintains that she finds it difficult to undertake to represent 'the actions of those small but potent social conditions which have hitherto been most neglected by art.'