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With carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to April Sebag-Montefiore, 6 Nov. 1963

From the start of the National Government. August 1931'. Photographs of RAB and Richard Clive Butler (3 docs), press cuttings about farmers and petrol tax, Marketing Bill and rural towns, RAB's review of parliamentary session, General Election, election posters and itinerary, National Government, original letters of congratulation etc. (3 docs), RAB's visit to India, Indian Franchise Committee, Essex drainage and water schemes, RAB's appointment to India Office, Round Table Conference, Joint Select Committee, India White Paper, tithe dispute, Japanese textiles, Assam dinner, World Economic Conference, Anglo-Indians, Wheat Act, Cambridge Union 1924, Milk Reorganisation Scheme, Indian Reform, Essex politics, Christmas card from Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare, obituary of Hon. Mary Pickford, original letter from Lord Bingley, RAB's travel documents for France and Italy, Butlers' move from Broxted to Halstead, Nicobar Islands, Poona Pact, menu for Farmers' Club annual dinner, 1930, Fitzwilliam Museum's Courtauld Galleries 1931, article by RAB in The Dalhousie Review on 'Canadian impressions' and galley proofs of his 'World wheat and the British farmer. A reply' 1930

Ryton. - Marsh is away, but the Abercrombies and Gibson are staying at his house on Monday. Abercrombie is booked to read at the Poetry Bookshop (address given) on Monday evening.

Addressed to Trevelyan at The Shiffolds. - Many thanks for Trevelyan's "Lucretius" ["Translations from Lucretius"]. Is honoured by the dedication.

Pension Palumbo, Ravello, Golfo di Salerno. - Strange and 'rather a bore' writing 1900. Has received Bessie's 'almond-bearing letter' [see 9/23]; remembers walking under other almond trees with her. Is going to put a bad dream into his play; is getting on slowly but quite well with it. Much relieved by a letter from [Lina] Duff Gordon; wrote to her saying he probably should have told her of his feelings for Bessie but explaining why that had been difficult, and that he was pained to think their friendship could not be the same again; she replied after a while with no mention of the misunderstanding, just writing 'the letter of one intimate friend to another'. He had promised to write a poem about the pet bat who visits her every winter, and she wrote down the bat's name as a reminder [cf. "The Lady's Bat"]. May have been unfair to Mrs C. [Mary Costelloe], but she certainly talked about him and Lina Duff Gordon 'in a way she had no right'; will try to avoid her, but it is difficult to see [Bernard] Berenson, whom he likes very much, separately. Berenson has written, and 'rather reproached' him for not visiting him at Florence on the way down; he is alone now as Mrs Costelloe has gone to London because her husband is dying. Bob may stop a couple of days on the way back, since Berenson is not coming to England this year; 'he rather feels neglect, and has been extraordinary kind' to Bob, though he 'is difficult at times'. Will not decide until he knows when he is coming to Holland. Continues the letter next day, Has not yet heard from his mother about whether he and Bessie should cross the Channel together. Thinks it would probably be best for her to stop at Grosvenor Crescent for a night on the way to Welcombe, but that can be determined later. Hopes she and Paul and Marie [Hubrecht] will persuade Willy van Riemsdijk not to go to Africa. Sorry that her aunt has such a bad cold; teases Bessie about learning cooking and 'fortifying [herself] against evil times in the barbaric isle, where neither foreign languages not [sic] the dressing of vegetables are understood'. Other people have also found his father's book difficult, and of course she knows little of British 'history or... parliamentary jargon'. Mr Straughn Davidson [James Leigh Strachan-Davidson?] , an Oxford don whom he rather likes, is coming at the end of the week

Contains: "On Translating Montaigne" by R. C. Trevelyan; poem, "Dante's Beatrice", by S.S. [Sylvia Sprigge]; poem, "Nocturne", by M. D. Hastings; "Composer in the Nursery" by Robert Muller-Hartmann; poem, "Reflection", by John Griffin; "Some Thoughts on the Teaching of Art" by A. B. S. Sprigge; poem, "Nostalgia", by H. B. [Herbert Brereton?] Aldrich.

I Tatti, Settignano, Florence. - Starting South this afternoon after ten days with the Berensons; B.B. is anxious and not sleeping well, but seems more cheerful since their arrival; his wife also seems to be in poor health and when she returns B.B. hopes to go to Sicily for a holiday. Asks whether Fry will be in Italy in March, the probable time of their own return, and whether Daniel will accompany him. Glad Fry's watercolours were successful and that he likes the [Band of Hope] banner. He must not forget his picture of H[elen] and J[ulian], and Helen her 'Bronzino infant'. Has seen Moore's young brother [Bertie] who paints in Italy; hopes Fry might be able to give him advice. Has heard about 'Lina's artist' [Aubrey Waterfield] from her, the K[err] Lawsons, and Moore who knew him at the Slade: tends to think that Lina is right about Waterfield, 'the Oxford manner' makes him a little difficult at first but he is fundamentally decent, and that [Lina's aunt] Mrs Ross has treated her very badly; Berenson is also 'perfectly silly' about it. However, Lina is being sensible and they will marry in a year or so. According to Moore, Tonks thought highly of Waterfield's drawings. B.B. 'nicer than ever' himself but much more intolerant of others (not Fry). Is sorry about the book [problems with the reproduction of Fry's illustrations for Trevelyan's "Polyphemus and Other Poems"] but it was not Fry's fault and his illustrations are much appreciated by all there. Bessie sends regards to all.

Written on the train, postmarked London S.W. - Theseus' comment after the gates [of the Labyrinth, in "The Bride of Dionysus"] is not in his copy, asks Trevelyan to send it c/o Dr Strecker, 23 Kaiserstrasse, so that Tovey can unite it with 'a beautiful setting'.

Action against Bertrand Russell, many years before good relations with the Germans will be restored.

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Includes typed transcript of interview. Cross ref to other history files.

Trinity College - Nassau Senior's notions about the nature of science will provide WW with specimens of what is to be avoided: 'I will refer to the passages and revel in their absurdity'. The world will soon see them as non-sensical. WW will be glad to see RJ's recent speculations about induction - 'for among other questions it is certainly an important one how the true faith can best be propagated. I have done what I could in my review of Herschel' ['Modern Science: Inductive Philosophy', Quarterly Review 45, 1831]. What would RJ make of a 'popular exposition of the matter applied mainly to moral political and other notional sciences is what I do not so well see'. The principles of induction can only be taught or learnt by numerous examples. Of induction applied to subjects outside of natural philosophy WW can only think of RJ's book, and 'a good deal of Malthus's population is a beginning of such a process excluding of course his anticipatory thesis, the only thing usually talked of'. There are various subjects which are well worth an examination for this purpose, such as language and antiquities - but in what RJ calls intellectual philosophy WW sees 'scarcely a possibility of exemplifying induction. So if you can make anything of the matter I shall be very glad to see it'. Rather, WW thinks the pupil should first 'read Euclid and algebra and when he has done that, mechanics and Newton, and there then is some chance of his knowing in his third year what induction is'.

Robert Mayor thinner than ever but under some remission from pain

Cambridge - thanks John Cornford for working for Labour candidate in election.

Will try to obtain papers of the Labourer's Friend Society for Ward's friend; success of the model lodging house; there will be no revolution in Britain: 'the poorest mechanics know the truths of the relations between labour & capital as well as the laws of gravity'; contrast with France; dismay here at sequestration of French royal property; fear that no private property will be safe; property should be secure whatever its value; missed M. [Coinderat?] when he called.

Could WW give 'an expressive name' to a proof which continually appears in a paper JWL is writing. He describes the operation and says that 'three-ing the series' came to mind, but he is not convinced such a phrase 'would be thought sufficiently elevated in style'.