Montreux Palace Hotel, Montreux, Switzerland. Addressed to 'R. G. C. McVittic [sic], Esq., Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge, Angleterre'. - 'Your kind note has been forwarded to me with some delay. I am enclosing an unpublished two-mover for the Trinity Review'.
11 St. Barnabas Road, Cambridge. Dated Nov. 11 1913 - Has had many letters praising Frazer's letter, and expresses his own admiration. With a MS note at bottom: 'Referring to Kiev trials, and J.G.F.'s letter disclaiming a belief in Jewish ritual murders.'
Sends a copy of the Germano-Swedish Treaty (not present), and refers to the other type of treaty as exemplified by the one concluded between Switzerland and Italy.
'Delighted to see you on Tuesday'.
All these items relate personally to R. B. McKerrow, except those described as printed. Most of the rest are printed forms filled up by hand.
Correspondence re terms of appointment, equipment required etc, 1965-1967; letter from K.L. Blaxter re Synge's 'inaugural days', 7 Mar 1969.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 42 (1996), pp 455-479.
Includes list of Synge's publications. References to Synge's publications in this catalogue refer to this list and appear in the form Biblio.
[Blind embossed stamp of Royal College of Science, Dublin] - Describes in detail his disappointment on his return from his expedition to the Torres Strait, that the Department of Physical Anthropology has taken a medical turn, mentioning [Alexander] Macalister, [Wynfrid] Duckworth, [J. N.] Langley, Michael Foster; his prospects 'were never so unpromising for the last twenty years as they are at this present moment'.