18, Earls Terrace, London, W.8. - Busy with the play; asks for advice on visiting France with Fraser; John Gielgud doing his "theatrical nut".
JH congratulates WW on his forthcoming marriage [1 July 1858] to Lady Frances E Affleck.
A list of the books that he is sending from his father [Duncan Crookes Tovey]'s library.
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Altan, Glandrommond, near Annalong, Co. Down.—Praises the published version of Greg’s Lyell Lectures (Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing).
Broome Pk., Betchworth, Surrey - BCB has seen what WW has said respecting Samuel Clarke and Coleridge. Clarke's moral philosophy does not seem much clearer than 'his a priori theological argument'. BCB does not make much of Coleridge's 'dreamy speculations on moral and theological subjects', and is pleased WW is in the same predicament. BCB is reading WW's lectures with the greatest interest ['Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy', new edn., 1862]. Those engaged in the pursuit of the moral sciences would be better if they first had their mind trained in the physical sciences: 'They would I apprehend be there taught to be more exact in their observation of facts, more careful in their inductions and at the same time acquire a greater precision in the use of words'.
Advising that the letters from Bertrand Russell to Lucy Silcox in Miss Blackburn's possession would be best given to the library of Trinity College rather than that of Newnham.
Enclosing press cutting, 'The rupee again linked with silver', a letter from Sir James Wilson to an unidentified newspaper, 25 Nov. 1920.
Congratulations on engagement.
RAB's files as Chairman. Meeting papers for meetings 1-10, with attached memoranda covering various aspects of policy, e.g. housing, health, trade unions, old people, Election policy. A committee appointed by, but not answerable to, the National Union and the 1922 Committee. Vol. II wanting
Office of the Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, 6 Armenian Street, Madras 1.—Invites him and Lady Pethick-Lawrence to dinner, and gives details of the other guests.
9 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W.8.—Invites him to a luncheon in honour of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the Indian Minister of Education, who is making a short visit to London.