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Carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to Sir David Gammans, 29 Jul. 1953

Headed notepaper for The Palace, Ripon. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

With additional note from Lydia Rose to her father, Thomas Babington.

Wotton Lodge Nursing Home, Gloucester. - The tumour in Catherine's breast (see 1/114) proved to be cancer, and she has undergone an extensive operation. She will have to have X-ray treatment for some time.

13a Hanover Terrace W11. - Would very much like to come next Saturday; asks whether he can be a paying guest. Wants to stay away from town until 2 July, when he will go to Cambridge. This week will stay with Forster.

The Master's Lodge, Downing College, Cambridge - Accepts an invitation to dine at Trinity on 17 November to meet Paul Painlevé, with whom he had some correspondence when he was Vice-Chancellor.

Aldeburgh - Has been reading ['The Belief in Immortality'?] and comments on the pathetic procession of humanity to the grave in vain hopes of immortality. Thanks them for their visit and hopes to see them in 1925.

Eleanor [House], West Wittering, Chichester, Sussex. - Has just got Bob's letter; unfortunately will not be back at Tidmarsh before 8 September; hopes Bob will be able to visit some other time. Is going to Charleston after this for 'a short breathing space before another bout of "Queen Victoria"'.

Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Headed 'Private'. Encloses a letter from Aunt Annie [Philips: 13/229]. Suggests that if Bob does decide to write to their father as she suggests, he should begin by saying that he does not know whether their mother is 'really likely to leave us quite soon', but understands from Aunt Annie that this is a possibility, and that he is anxious that in that event their father should not hurry to leave Welcombe. Also thinks that Bob should say he and Bessie have 'no thought of moving into Welcombe' themselves.

110 Banbury Road, Oxford.—Asks whether the vocabulary-sheets arrived safely and responds to his comments on the translation. ‘As for the Ciceronians, I feel like translating Jovius’ whole folio for a change from Colonna.’ Gives the address of the editor of English, because when Smith is ready to publish on Wordsworth, say, it may be useful to have access to a journal that pays in cash rather than in offprints like the Modern Language Review.

Postmarked Weybridge. - Very glad about H.A. [?] and the baby, as is his mother. Has received the large new Jane Austen [the first Clarendon Press edition] as a gift; an exhortation to throw [Aldous Huxley's "Antic Hay"] 'into the lake'.

With additional note to Mary from her sister Jean.

40 Weymouth Street - London Library closed for cleaning, forwarding Guizot's Essais sur l'histoire de France, Mrs Baynes' book, Gladstone losing his temper

NATO Advanced Studies Institute Immunological Adjuvants and Vaccines, 24 June–5 July 1988, Cape Sounion Beach

Trinity College - Will RJ look over WW's 'Physical Theology' ['Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology', 1833]...and say how far you think the selection of arguments and the mode of presenting them will answer the purpose'. WW hears that RJ is to be reviewed in the Edinburgh Review by McCulloch [J.R. McCulloch] - 'so prepare for a flogging'.

Was glad to have Nora's letter, and to hear that she was not dissatisfied with his article on Henry Sidgwick [for Mind]. Notes her corrections, but fears that he will not be able to make use of them because the dictionary article [for the Dictionary of National Biography] 'is necessarily very condensed', and doubts whether it contains any of the inaccuracies she mentions. States that he took the date of the lectureship from a paper given to him by [Henry?] Jackson. Did not mean to imply that Henry Sidgwick 'intentionally stammered: but only that he managed to turn it to account.' Hopes that she may be able to put together the letters and life, and supercede his 'and other ephemeral notices.' Will call on her the next time he is in Cambridge.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated December 20th. 1918 - Has heard from [W. H. R.] Rivers about the Royal Society meeting, a committee has been formed [to oversee funds for the proposed expedition [to Uganda]; suggests he write the Secretary ([William] Hardy of Caius); his chapter on Jacob's marriage [in 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament'] is the most important from the anthropological point of view.

28 St John’s Wood Terrace, N.W.8.—Comments on Greg’s edition of Jonson’s Masque of Gipsies.

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28 St John’s Wood Terrace, N.W.8
16 Feb. 1952

Dearest Walter,

Thank you very much indeed for sending me your latest indiscretion {1}! I have chortled inwardly with delight at your planting it on the B.A.—a nice bit of quiet fun. The critical apparatus lends it such an overwhelming air of respectability, however, that I doubt if reviewers will even see the fun, much less dare to comment on it. There is an enormous disinfectant power in the study of variants, the printing of parallel texts, & a volume with everything handsome about it. I am only halfway through the Introduction, so far, as I have had a very busy week & at one & two a. m. my brain—or rather its remnants—is not up to this close reasoning; but I hope to have a few more wits to tackle the rest next week. I am once again overwhelmed by the amount of steady work you get through—it seems only the other day that you got out the Faustus. I wonder what you now have on hand for the next?

Yes, my bone man seems pleased with me, & now gives me a 3 weeks gap between treatments; but of course from his point of view this weather is the worst possible. I was particularly lucky to have a thoroughly mild autumn when he originally dealt with the vertebrae & sciatica two years ago: it enabled him to get me right in half the time.

Do you come up at all for B.A. or Bibl. Soc. meetings these days? And if so, what about coming to lunch or meeting me for lunch in town sometime? Do let me know if there is a possibility. Much love & again very many thanks

Muriel

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{1} Greg’s reconstruction of Jonson’s Masque of Gipsies, published by the OUP for the British Academy.