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Elspeth Cochrane Agency, Blanche Marvin, 19A-21A St. Johns Wood High Street, London, N.W.8. England - Thinks 'The Battle of Shrivings' an important play, capturing the essence of what is happening in English society, with only a very thin veneer of civilization; discusses the voluntary arrangement between Mark and Gideon, rather than a more easily comprehensible exterior force (such as a blizzard) to keep them together.

Miscellaneous pages, including the title page of the playscript with a note in Shaffer's hand "MS from which the play was typed by Studio Duplicating Sept. 18-22" and date changed at bottom from February 1985 to September, but this title page is not accompanied by the rest of the playscript. There is a small group of materials for an advertising letter and programme note by Shaffer for the Oxford production faxed to Sarah Cunningham, and some emendations dated 22 December 1994.

To visit Blomfield, plans for travelling in Europe

Thanks Monk for his congratulations on returning from India

Encloses a cheque for monies in settlement of Henry's estate

Good character of [Charles Percival], pleased he has visited London. Mrs SP must have found London greatly changed

St John’s Vicarage, Torquay.—Sends a notebook compiled by his father, containing Keysoe words and phrases and other material relating to that place. Is sending his second boy (Reginald) to ‘try for something’ at Trinity next week.

(Sent with a notebook containing Add. MS b. 74/5/13.)

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Transcript

St John’s Vicarage, Torquay.
Oct. 28. 1895.

Dear Mr Vice-Master,

I have not forgotten my promise to send you the Keysoe “words and phrases” collected by my father {1}.

I am sorry to find that they are not nearly as numerous as I supposed.

I might have copied them for you, there is in the note-book which contains them a short history of the endowment of Keysoe, &c, which may interest you, as also a map of the glebe and other farms at the end made with my father’s accustomed neatness & precision. There were a great many loose papers of note in the book, from which I conclude that my father intended to write a history of Keysoe. I have left a few there, which might be of interest—the various spellings, the inscription on the Font, and some of the early Views. Where the loose papers are, marks the place where the “words and phrases” begin.

Please use the book as you like, and if it is of any use to you, do not trouble to return it.

I am sending my second boy {2}, now at Westminster, to try for something at Trinity next week. I can’t say how earnest my wish is that he may obtain something. I have a great yearning that my line of the family shall go on at Trinity, but alas! I can’t afford to continue it, unless the boy gets something. He is the last chance. My other boy {3} failed to get anything at Cambridge (he was not good enough to try at Trinity) but got a good Exhibition at Exeter, Oxford; he is, I believe, the first of his family to deviate from Cambridge since Henry Airy (Ayray) was Provost of Queens in 1598. He was not a direct Ancestor, but a collateral of our ancestors.

With much regard, | believe me Yours very truly
Basil R: Airy

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{1} William Airy, vicar of Keysoe, Beds., 1836-7.

{2} Reginald. He was admitted at Trinity as a sizar on 1 October the following year.

{3} William Shepley. He was elected to a college exhibition at Exeter College, Oxford, on 12 May 1894.

Congratulations at Robert Bickersteth’s Mayor's performance at Cambridge, printing book on family prayers

Death of Mrs Pitts, propaganda for and against the government: London

Reports that he finished his Marlborough examination on the previous Tuesday, and intends to cross the channel on Monday evening. Intends to stay one month in Paris with Graham Dakyns, and then shall probably spend a fortnight walking in Switzerland 'or somewhere', after which he shall 'probably settle down for a month in Germany', and return about mid-September. Supposes that by that time she will be well settled in Rugby. Regrets not having seen her at Wellington College, where he had a most pleasant visit. Was pleased to find both Mary and Edward so well. Comments on the ugliness of the new baby [Arthur Benson]; needs to do this to keep his 'character as a baby-hater', since he is 'compelled to join in the general Martin-worship'. Claims to have enjoyed his examinations on the whole, and to have been freer from hayfever than usual. Refers to the fact that 'poor Dale had lost two of his boys from Diptheria', and comments that it is supposed to be an unhealthy season at Dresden. Hopes to go there in the summer. Praises Marlborough, and reports that the boys 'are very nice and their relations with the masters more what one w[oul]d desire than at any other school with which [he is] acquainted.' States that he was very much interested in the Isle of Man, and was surprised to learn that his uncle Lace was a benefactor to King William's College there. Sends his love to his aunt.

Cannot readily explain why Southern Rhodesia declared UDI when they had 95% self-government thoiugh he believes Ian Smith was tricked into it. Rhodesia is not a threat to its neighbours, attitude of the blacks to democracy and dictatorship, hopes Kenneth Kaunda gets Britain expelled from the Commonwealth

Correspondence re research.

8 Grosvenor Crescent, S.W. - Congratulates him on his exams, notes that given what he told him about the problem paper he expected a greater difference between Hardy and J. H. Jeans.

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Explains remarks he made at the Union on the subject of heads of houses.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Dear Master

It is quite true that I said some words {1} at the Union in last Tuesday’s debate, and that in doing so I charged the Secretary not to write me down as having spoken either for or against the motion. {2} What I said was just these two things. First, that the question was incorrectly worded; {3} the proposer himself wishing only to modify somewhat the office of a Master. Secondly, that in view of the exceptionally praiseworthy action of the more prominent Heads, it was all but impossible to argue this abstract question on its merits at the present time; for which reason I was abstaining from any statement of opinion about it. {4}

I am
Yours most truly
W. K. Clifford.

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Black-edged paper. Cf. CLIF A1/20.

{1} ‘some words’ altered from ‘something’.

{2} ‘I made two remarks’ struck through.

{3} ‘incorrectly worded’ above ‘wrongly put’, struck through.

{4} The following passage has been struck through here: ‘I hope that neither these remarks, nor the act of making them, will [destroy struck through] sap the belief in my good sense and feeling, which you have so kindly entertained and allowed to survive even a newspaper report.’