Doxford, Chathill, Northumberland.
With carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to Flora Lion, 18 Jan. 1957
Description of a collision on the Metropolitan Railway
[At top: Harold Prince] - 'I said it all last night: thank you.'
Dolder Grand Hotel, CH-8032 Zurich - Thanks him for his and Robert [Leonard]'s hospitality in New York; is glad he is writing again, mentions a BBC programme about Dan J[acobson?] that he missed; shares news of the 'Amadeus' premiere, EMI say that 10% of the house will have to go to the Cinematograph Benevolent Society, Nadine [?] has beaten them down to 5% which he thinks still too high; in a postscript, he says Ginnie Airlie [Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie] says 'there is no housekeeper, maid, chatelaine, or whatever at Balmoral called Brenda........'
Congratulations on engagement.
7 Camden St. & T. - He sends Whewell 'a piece of audacity of which your eye will detect the visible signs at a glance'. He gives an example of the knife and fork theory of figure he previously sent WW [see ADM to WW, 1 Apr. 1849]. He finds it easier to get the more difficult cases of syllogism by 'figuring the symbol in my head - and detecting the symbol of inference - than by thought'.
Collingwood - If JH's newly married daughter [Maria] and husband are now with WW could he give Maria the annexed. The wedding 'went off very prettily'. A Mr Prescott, a man of high scientific learning, very cultivated and an agreeable person, is going to take up residence in Cambridge. Prescott is an old Trinitarian and would like to be introduced to WW.
CL gives some brief comments made by Lockhart [John Gibson Lockhart - editor of the Quarterly Review] concerning WW's article [Review of 'Lyell's 'Principles of Geology', volume 2', Quarterly Review, 1832].
Feather, N. 1940 (Frisch's carbon only), 1942
Freundlich, H.J. 1941-42. Letter of 12 November 1941 has 'A Postscript by Kowarski'.
(Carbon copy of a typed original.)
Enclosing booklet, Dacca (Old and New)