(Contains a photograph of a newspaper article, 11 Dec., giving an account of the event, and a photograph of the signatures of those who attended.)
States that 'Monday 16th to Wed 18th' would suit him and Nora 'excellently', except that he is occupied on Tuesday evening from 8.30 onwards. Asks him to write or telegraph if the above is not a reason for choosing other days, and Nora will write to Mr T[ ] immediately. Announces that they have room for Myers if he does not mind a very small room.
Enclosing copy of Greek lines by Henry Babington Smith.
Brixton Prison.—Refers to their meeting (at Bow Street) yesterday. Has had some exercise, despite the rain. Hetty Lawes and George Fox have written and Shepherd has visited. Refers to reports in the newspapers.
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Transcript
Brixton Prison
15th March 1912
Dearest
It was indeed good to see you yesterday & find you looking so well. By the time I got back here & had had a meal it was nearly time for bed—I expect you found the same.
Today has been what would be called a “nice soft day”; but in spite of the drizzle we man-aged to get our excercise† out of doors morning & afternoon—& in the morning as I was coming down one side of the yard I heard the song of a lark & looking up I spied him in the sky high up; I kept him in sight while I walked down that side & the next angle but had to lose him when I turned & I think he came down then for his song ceased also. I should hardly have expected a lark’s song in such a place!
I had not time to tell you yesterday that I had such a dear letter from Hetty Lawes & she sent me the little flowers that I took up to court with me, the violets smelt so sweet.
Shepherd came this afternoon & I think I cheered him up a bit; poor old fellow I think it has troubled him a lot more than it has us.
I have also had a letter from George Fox—he wrote to Holloway (thinking I was there!) as the letter has been forwarded on from there. It all makes one realise what very nice friends one has.
I have been looking at today’s papers; as usual the Daily Telegraph has the best account being really very accurate & full; the Times & the Standard are both fairly good.
It seems to me that we shall for some time to come look forward to these little weekly journeys up to Bow Street as our “day out”!
Your loving
Husband.
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One folded sheet. At the head is printed, ‘In replying to this letter, please write on the envelope:— Number 3408 Name Lawrence F P’, the name and number being filled in by hand. The word ‘Prison’ of the address and the first two digits of the year are also printed, and the letter is marked with the reference ‘C1/12’ and some initials. Strokes of letters omitted either deliberately or in haste have been supplied silently.
The first 15 letters are by A. P. Rollett; the rest are by his son J. M. Rollet, who continued the correspondence after his father's death in July 1968. A few of the letters by J. M. Rollett bear annotations by G. K. Batchelor.
14 Great College Street, Westminster.
Pembroke Lodge, Edwardes Square, Kensington, W.—Thanks her for her note. His chief interest in the question (presumably women’s suffrage) is to get the greatest advantage from it against the Government.
(Transcript in an unidentified hand.)
Carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to Sir David Gammans, 29 Jul. 1953
With carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to Col. J.P. Kellett, 18 Jan. 1957
Trinity College, Cambridge. - Has given Fulcher King's instructions; discussion of patterns for new paper for King's front sitting room. Has also asked Hitzman to remove King's clocks to prevent their being 'damaged by dust and by being handled unintelligently'.
'Prior has bought a horse in the existence of which I did not for a long time believe. I suggested that it must be a rocking horse... but at last Hughes has been out for a ride with him and seen that the animal is really in being, In going through Haslingfield all the children turned out to see him'.
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.
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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'.