Thanks her for 'the Life' [Henry Sidgwick: a memoir] which is to him 'a priceless possession', and which 'reveals phases of [Henry's] long life-course and sides of his mind which one had not known or not seen the full meaning of'. Hopes to write to her again when he has finished reading; describes it as being 'as simple, and as perfect, as it could have been made.' States that Mr Dicey and Mrs Creighton and others concur with him in the latter sentiment.
Sem títuloBaddegama church opened 11 March, local dignitaries attended, sermons in English and Singhalese, American missions at Jaffna, baptism of Charlotte Mayor: Baddegama
Her illness.
Death of Robert Henry Blossett: Barrackpore
[Death of Elizabeth Birks], Mrs Jessopp's school at Helstone, has long thought that the want of thought and of any higher principle than 'convention' and 'propriety' in the bulk of educated women is owing to the overstrictness which lays down a stiff rule for every moment of their time, Tennyson's Maud
Condolences on the death of Georgina Allix Mayor: [The Nurse's Hostel, Francis Street, London].
Fragment: arrangements under the will of [Frederick or Robert Grote]
Dismissed Mrs Wilcox [Alexandrina Jessie Grote's tutor], dislikes the prevailing High Church ideas: Wallington House
Admires the play.
Small notebook with scene revisions in Shaffer's hand.
Typescript and manuscript drafts, heavily revised, with an occasional photocopied page, in no discernable order, previously tied together with twine. Some pages folded (indicating deletion?).
Thanks him for his support of her and Peter [Hall].
Der Botschafter der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Baron Hermann von Richthofen - Informs him he has been awarded the Shakespeare Prize for 1989 by the Anglo-German Board of the F.V.S. Foundation in Hamburg, suggests a dinner in his honour at the embassy.
Reflects on the weekend of the William Inge award in Independence, Kansas, and sends an excerpt from his speech introducing Peter.
Folded sheet, 'Christmas Remembrance' and signature of Vishwanath Singh; on opposite page, image of cottage and hens.
Printed at Cambridge University Press.