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Includes ms. Redrafts of certain sections. Utilises Ministry of Education files and RAB's personal archive

Simon, F.E. 1946-47, 1951, 1961-62. Correspondence 1961 is from N. Arms re her biography of Simon.

Simons, L. 1947

Paris. - Rang up [Nicky] Mariano today and is seeing [Bernard] Berenson tomorrow afternoon. Julian and Ursula are coming to lunch today; he will tell them to contact the Berenson party at their hotel. Cannot express his gratitude for what Trevelyan is doing for him and his friends: the money for the apartment came last Saturday; G. [Marie Germanova] will write soon, she is busy because of Suhrawardy's impending departure. Will send back [Lascelles] Abercrombie's book from India. The devaluation [of the franc] has been too late for him to benefit, though he has helped his friends Germanova and Kalitinsky with the purchase of a wireless. Does not think Woolf will accept the poems [at the Hogarth Press], but they have been helpful in bringing Trevelyan and Suhrawardy's 'minds and sensibility closer'. Replies in detail to Trevelyan's further comments on the poems.

Gosberton House, near Spalding. - Arrival of the Abercrombie's third son [Ralph]. Catherine is doing well. He himself was away and missed the birth.

Fitzwilliam Museum - Sends a copy of Professor Chew's article in 'The North American Review' [not present] by Chew's request in case he should wish to comment on it.

Union of South Africa, Office of the Minister of Justice, Palace of Justice, Pretoria - Thanks her for her husband's book on Greece; suggests the prospectuses she mentioned be sent to the Public Library in Cape Town; is looking for a map that might be useful to her.

Very glad that Ursula is better. [Edward] Renton has not answered his letter; expects he will not; Bob should not have written, and it was a greater mistake not to remember to ask for the piano-score and [German] translation [for Bob and Donald Tovey's opera, the "Bride of Dionysus"] Does not like to ask, but perhaps Julian could go to see Renton and ask for it; suspects when he went Renton 'did not want [him] to see what little of the score he had recopied'. Would like the translation, as it would 'be at any rate something for the hundreds of pounds Donald and I have thrown away on him'. Donald Tovey is 'evidently dying', and 'poor Alice Elms died yesterday, rather suddenly'. Quite likely that Renton would say there is 'no piano-score and translation there', but he is a 'complete lyar [sic]'. Not vitally important now, as there is no question of a German translation 'for years to come', but Donald had 'set his heart on getting it ready for the future' and approved Renton's version. A 'great thing' to have got back the score.

Government House, Adelaide. - Is sorry to lose Alfred Enticknap, who had a post with him for life. If Trevelyan takes Enticknap away, he will make himself 'more or less responsible for him and his wife'; thinks Trevelyan will be 'bound to provide for them, as they evidently will look on [him] as their protector & guide etc'. Is willing to let the house [Roundhurst] to any friend of Trevelyan's he might recommend, on the same terms and for at least a year as long as the tenant 'behaves himself - and is not a bore to the Walpoles'. His family are all well and send 'kind remembrances'.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Agrees that Robert should not be in a hurry to act about Taormina [the legacy in Florence Trevelyan's will]. Would like to hear his ideas about anything in the book [Sir George's third volume of "The American Revolution"]; agrees with him in liking the last two chapters best and is prepared to write another volume 'in that style, and on those topics' if he lives another five years. Sends love to Paul and Bessie; very glad they are well.

Flat 20, Kensington Palace Mansions, W.8. - Thanks Trevelyan for inviting him and his niece to visit; is going to Cambridge today until Wednesday or Thursday so this week is no good. Likely to be at Petersfield at the weekend when Trevelyan will be thereso should be able to discuss possible dates with him then. Will let him know if his niece can come by himself; knows she would find it a 'great pleasure'.

Looking at a house at Asby de la Zouche

(The draft passage corresponds to parts of pp. xviii-xix of the published text.)

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Transcript of the notes

The variation in the headlines, as determined by Professor Bowers {1}, raise† a difficulty in the way of my solution of the problem by showing that it would involve delay at several points, and it is quite possible that we may have to look for an alternative. At the same time I do not think that the new facts are irreconcilable. My theory was designed to allow the printing of each sheet with a minimum of delay: Professor Bowers raises the question of delay between sheets[.] But suppose that the sheets of Lear were being printed alternately with those of some other book, or, which is perhaps more likely, as stop-gaps between those of a work which was held to demand greater care and deliberation in composition and correction. In that case the difficulty of delay between sheets wou[l]d disappear, and we should have an explanation of the pooling of the headlines. Of course, if printing were strictly alternate we should be at a loss to explain the setting of a third skeleton forme: but there is no need to assume that it was; sheets B and C may have been printed together to fill an unusually long interval in the other work.

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{1} The reference is presumably to the article mentioned on p. 49 of Greg's Variants in the First Quarto of ‘King Lear’.

† Sic.

Letter [118/1]: Encloses 'a copy of a little magazine', because it contains a reminiscence concerning Henry Sidgwick, which she thought might interest Nora. Sends regards of herself and her husband.

Printed extract from the Carrow Works Magazine [118/2]: including James Stuart's recollection of having drawn up a letter 'to a learned body in Cambridge asking its members to extend its privileges to the outside world.' Gave Henry Sidgwick the draft to read, and the latter's corrections impressed upon him 'the great advantage of not overstating a thing.'

Hotel Lutetia, 43 Bourlevard Raspail, Paris. Dated 26 March 1919 - Describes being called to Paris on the illness of his stepdaughter Lilly Mary Grove and her sudden death; in addition to seeing Sir David Prain, hopes he would see [Arthur] Hinks, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, who might be of good practical help; wonders how the preparations are going.

Letters, cards and cables.

Sent to Childers by Durrant's Press Cuttings agency.

Headed 'Compulsory Greek'. Asks Sidgwick to add his name [as one who supports the setting up of a Syndicate to inquire into the issue of allowing of alternatives for one of the classical languages in the Previous Examination] 'to the signatories of the paper just received' [see 101/99].

Thanks him for the warning. Explains that he has been detained longer where he is, and finds that he must go to Cambridge for a day or two to settle matters. States that he cannot come before '15th or 17th', but undertakes to come then, unless he receives a communiqué from Terling [home of Lord Rayleigh and his wife [Nora Sidgwick's sister] first. States that he will write decisively on Wednesday '[12th]', or will telegraph on Thursday. Adds that he will write again the following day, 'after hearing the decision of "Mr John Morley"' [who was reading the proofs of Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics].

Apologises for not having written to say that he had received the portfolio, and claims that it 'suits beautifully'. Intends to come to visit on Friday or Thursday.