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Kingsmoor House, Nr. Harlow, Essex. Dated 16 July 1904 - Sends a revised paragraph on the all father [for his book 'The Native Tribes of South East Australia', transcribed] taking into account Frazer's caution [as to fraud or error on the part of his native informants?], has asked a missionary [John?] Bulmer to ask 'Billy Wombat' about the ceremony at the Lakes, which he did not know about.

Clarifies statements he made earlier about 'the changes of fashion' and the nature of taste; also elaborates on his discussion of 'the mentality of a people'. He ‘never said that the Austrians couldn’t be fascist because it was incompatible with their mentality’, but that he ‘could not immagine [sic] how this change could take place. The mistake I made was that I called fascism a kind of physiognomy & my difficulty was: how can the Austrians change into the face which I called fascism. The answer to this should have been: Fascism isn’t a face but a form of government etc etc, & though it is true that the face of Austrian fascism won’t be like the face of German & Italian fascisms still the form of government etc etc will be fascism’. Discusses predictions of the future using scientific and intuitive methods; example of weather forecasting.

Letter accompanying that from HS to Professor James Ward, explaining that she found the latter among old family papers.

Annouces that he and Whitehead have looked through Russell's Dissertation, and both think it 'decidedly able, and deserving a careful estimate'. Undertakes to make a preliminary report of it and send it to Ward. Refers to a note on L[ ], with which Sidgwick proposes to deal. Reports that the first half is primarily mathematical, and states that Ward need only read most of this cursorily, as it falls mainly within the competence of Whitehead, and that it is the third and fourth chapters that Ward should concentrate on. Asks if he would like to have it sent to him, or if he is to come back to Cambridge before the reports are wanted. Hopes that he is getting on well with the lectures.

Asks for information concerning Myers' coming to Cambridge, 'The Prospects of Poetry' and 'The Probabilities of Medicine etc etc'. Declares that they have much to discuss, HS having failed to write due to the unrealised expectation of seeing Myers at Rugby. Reports that he has to teach history that term, 'no successor having turned up to Pearson: and Cambridge breeding no healthy young resident and locking him up with a Hume.' Asks if he has seen Noel 'in the Dark Blue'. Suggests that he may have been ashamed to send it to Myers, as 'some of the polemic is almost personal'. Declares that it is very well written, 'except the polemical part', and states that he writes better prose than verse. Reports that Noel nearly quarrelled with him 'for reluctantly avowing that [HS] did not consider him an equal of Swinburne.' States that Noel 'thinks that the Verbal School [S. Rossetti, etc - non sine te] have been found out'. Refers to 'Edinburgh' of July, and the Contemporary [Review] of October as having evidence to support this theory. States that Noel also thinks that 'Buchanan and R.N are going to be chaired instead by a mutable but at length appreciative public.' Refers to 'a certain Mutual Admiration league' between Noel and Symonds. Believes that the latter's poetry could be successful, 'if he could only impassion himself about a good subject.' Asks Myers to send his last epic. Tells him to read Noel's article. Sends his regards to Myers' mother. Announces that his second correspondence circular is soon to appear. Reports that Miss Clough is in Cambridge, that the house is 'getting on', and that there will be five [women] there that term.

Reports that he has received his letter, and declares that he would much like to come and see him at Cheltenham. Announces that he is going to Rugby for a week, and must be in Cambridge from 1 October, 'partly for ladies' lectures, partly to catch zealous pupils who are to be examined in November, and dialectically improve them before term begins.' States that he read his poem, 'Ammergau', in [Macmillan's Magazine], and declares that it did not please him quite as much as 'the Roman poem', but that he liked the close exceedingly. Reports that he returned from Germany earlier than he had intended because of the war. Declares that his sympathies have turned round lately. Asserts that 'there is something almost attractive about French conceit' and that the image of a victorious German is unappealing. Fears that they shall miss each other at Rugby, and mentions that he may go down there again for a day or two if he finds the time, but envisages that they shall meet 'in town'. Offers to introduce him to Hutton. Remarks that 'the Spectator is not particularly good to write for as the editors do so much themselves'. Note by F.W.H. Myers: 'I thought at that time of taking to writing reviews'.

The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, London CE4V 4BT - Letters from the Garter King of Arms congratulating Shaffer on the Knighthood and describing the process for petitioning for a Grant of Armorial Bearings; the final letter of 28 June acknowledges that Shaffer is undergoing surgery and wishes to defer the Armorial Bearings application for the present.

A manuscript draft in an unidentified hand [J.G.F.'s secretary?], and a typescript draft, the printer's copy, corrected.

(Bibliog. 105).
D.97: 15pp. ms. draft.
D.98: 19pp. typescript draft with ms. corrections.

A list of Trinity Fellows[?] written on the verso of a notice from the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a piece of paper with wordplay notes.

Letters dated 31 Jan. and 1 Mar. 1918.