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Part of a collection gathered by Cordelia Whewell. See also items in this box: 5-113 and 273-323.

Franks of:

• James Henry Monk, Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol
• George Murray, Bishop of Rochester
• Hon. Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford
• Hon. Henry Ryder, as Bishop of Lichfield
• James Saurin, Bishop of Dromore
• Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich
• B. E. Sparke, Bishop of Ely
• John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester
• Power Le Poer Trench, Archbishop of Tuam
• William van Mildert, Bishop of Durham
• Henry Montague Villiers, Bishop of Carlisle
• Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta

115: with verse, 'A noble Balade of Archery...' [1827 or later].

Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum - Congratulates Frazer, and notes that the Society feels special satisfaction that the O.M. is conferred on a scholar who approaches antiquity 'so largely from the side of archaeology, in all its branches'.

27 Abingdon Street, London, S.W.1. - After they met in Zurich, he returned to the Drapers' Company and asked for a grant for Frazer so that he may employ a secretary; wonder if they would accept £400 per annum for three years, which would be renewable

Photographic postcard with an image of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Montreal, Canada - Is sending a wool blanket, a specialty of the province; thinks of them often.

Wotton Lodge Nursing Home, Gloucester. - Thanks the Trevelyans for their letters following Catherine's operation [see 1/113 and 1/114]. She seems to be recovering well. The children are well and being cared for by grandmother or aunt. It is very good of the Trevelyans to offer a home for David, and please thank Lady Trevelyan for her kindness.

Paris (4bis, rue des Ecoles) - Thanks him for 'Sur les traces de Pausanias', has used Pausanias in preparing his 'Essai historique sur le sacrifice'; has been translating the New Testament, which he will send to Frazer.

Thinks Julian will like to see this letter from Eddie Marsh, originally enclosed; he need not return it. Hopes Julian, Ursula and [Philip] Erasmus will have a good time at Gorringes. They have got and will read 'Bernard's Club book', which 'begins very well', but he is wrong to think there has 'never been a Breakfast Club'. Bob's father belonged to one - is unsure whether it still exists - along with 'various brilliant or interesting people' such as Wolesley, Grant Duff, Henry James and [Lord] Rosebery too he thinks; they 'breakfasted somewhere about ten o clock and went on talking for hours'.

Wixenford, Eversley. - Asked Mrs Arnold to write yesterday with details of Bobbie's train home, as he was too busy to do so properly. Thinks they should be pleased with Bobbie's progress considering the 'long interruption to his work at the beginning of term'. Since his parents like him to do some work in the holiday, give some suggestions. Has done better in several examinations than in his class work, showing that he had 'understood and remembered the work better than anyone'; he tends to lose marks in class due to 'his slow manner and mumbling though not unintelligent way of reading'; gives an example of him understanding a grammar exercise better than older boys.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Booa [Mary Prestwich] got Elizabeth's letter this morning; Caroline is upset that her chilblains are still so bad. Booa will try to get something which will help her; thinks the cold has been too much for her in 'that Italian-built house'. Wishes she were here so that she and Booa could nurse her; it is very cold in the passages here but the rooms are 'comfortable enough'. Asks whether an upstairs room would be better; Sir George had the room Elizabeth is staying in and Caroline was struck by its chilliness. Hopes Meg Booth will arrive soon and cheer Elizabeth and Robert up. Asks if Robert is getting his walks on the hills. Sir George has given her the Brownings' letters this morning, they are 'very interesting & delightful' though she is not sure whether they should have been published.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Has received Florence's will and her letter to Robert from May 1906, which show good will and feeling towards the family. Sees a large payment will soon be liable; has written to Mr Philipson to ask for a valuation of Florence's personal property which will come to Robert after Cacciola's death; Robert and Elizabeth need not worry about the money in the meantime [implying that he and Caroline will pay any outstanding sum?]. Presumes Cacciola is the executor.

Hopes that C[onscientious] O[bjector]s 'have no conscientious object to VICTORY!!'

Postmarked London E.C; addressed to Trevelyan at 53 Rue de Rivoli, Paris 1er. - Sends thanks to Trevelyan, [Antoine] Bibesco, and [Francis] Birrell for the 'charming message'. Wishes he could come to Paris, and will do so as soon as the war is over. Asks Trevelyan to give his regards to [André] Gide if he sees him; is sorry not to have met up with Gide again after they parted at Liverpool Street. If a 'feeling of abstract melancholy' comes over him, Trevelyan will know that Norton's 'heart is near'.

Herstmonceux - JCH is very pleased with the appointment of Alfred Ollivant as the Bishop of Llandaff - 'a most conscientious appointment it seems to me, on the part of Lord John [Russell]'. JCH's 'first wish was that Trench [Richard C. Trench] shd succeed him in the Professorship [of Theology]; for Maurice [John F. D. Maurice] seemed to me out of the question. However, after talking over the matter with Esther [Hare] in the morning, I was brought to wish that I might myself be allowed to take part in helping to work out the new system in my beloved University. At the last election it seemed to me that I had no right to come forward in opposition to a man so far superior to me in theological learning as Mill [William Hodge Mill]'. However, although JCH knows 'that in many things his claims are higher, I shd not shrink from opposing him. For I cannot think that his doctrinal views are those which are the most likely to promote the cause of Christian truth in our days'. JCH's 'own views have become much firmer of late years, and I have a securer knowledge of the foundations on which my doctrines rest. The many testimonials of gratitude & affection which I have received from students of Divinity at Cambridge encourage me to think that, if I were living amongst them & opening my heart & mind to them, I might render them service in helping them to steer among the quicksands by which theological speculation in these days is best. And it might be of some use to shew them that one may admit and recognise whatever is true and valuable in German theology, and yet retain a strong conviction of all the positive truths of the Gospel. Many signs show that this is one of the main perils of our days; & we cannot escape it by turning away from it. We must face it dauntlessly & overcome it'. Obviously JCH will not stand for the theological chair if WW is considering it. Would it be possible for JCH to take a B.D degree, or a D.D. in time to be qualified for becoming a candidate?'. Could he take the Professorship with his current living?

Thanks WW for a copy of his Mechanical Euclid ['The Mechanical Euclid', 1837]: 'If I were allowed to criticise, I should feel disposed to submit, that geometry can stir more than 'four steps' without resting her foot upon an axiom. Up to the 28th Prop. of the first book of Euclid...I should be disposed to say there was nothing which it was not mere 'idleness and avoiding of labour' to refer to an axiom. Whether the great sticking-point about Parallels will ever be really got over, time must show; but if anybody should ever be fortunate enough to light on such a discovery, I apprehend there would be an end of Axioms in Euclid'. It is because we are unable to get over this point we retain the axioms. TPT believes 'that the mystery of parallels is lodged, or to be sought for, in what for shortness I will call the Platonic property of the sphere, namely that by which any sphere or spheres can be turned about the centre without change of place' [see his 'Geometry without Axioms. Or the First Books of Euclid's Elements', 1830, in which he tries to establish the theory of parallel lines without recourse to any principle not founded on previous demonstration].

Thanks Nora for her letter. Quotes a sentence in the autobiographical fragment relating to Henry Sidgwick's interest in psychical research, and his 'hope of direct proof of the continued individual existence which he regarded as necessary from an ethical point of view'; would not quote the words [presumably in the obituary notice of Henry Sidgwick he is writing for the January 1901 issue of Mind], but intimate the general intention, and would make no comment.

Must decline the invitation to Trinity, pleased that CJM has "formed some acquaintance" with Newton's Principia, encourages him to find a popular account of Newtonian philosophy

(Kristiania, Norway?)—‘All good wishes for Xmas. I hope you haven't seen this one before.’

(Illustrated with a photograph of a skier at Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925). The writer is identified as ‘B. Dowson’ in the original typed list, but the grounds of the identification are unknown.)