Office of the Minister of Defence.—Is glad that Pethick-Lawrence was able to attend yesterday’s Indian independence celebrations.
'No. 29. Quiver with Arrows from Otaheite. Gift of Capt[ai]n Jam[e]s Cooke 1775'
MS copy by Joseph Wilkinson. Paper originally read 19 Mar. 1860.
Sans titreS. S. Mongolia - Has been reading the proof [of 'Totemism and Exogamy'?] and makes suggestions for changes to the section on Indian totemism.
Vigna Balbo, nr Turin. - Letter of introduction for Count Morelli.
Accounts of the 'Kennedy Professorship Fund' with contributions at the beginning of the book and expenses at the back. Printed letter from E. Atkinson, Vice-Chancellor, to the Public Orator, Rev. W. G. Clark, expressing thanks to the subscribers for offering the fund to Cambridge University for the establishment of a Latin Professorship; a list of subscribers and their contributions is also printed.
Written out in FitzGerald's hand: 'Mr Froude's Receipt of Carlyle's Papers [crossed through] Letters which are to be delivered to W. Aldis Wright for Trinity College Library and if thought worthy my own Book of Extracts for W. A. W.'s own Library'.
Published by Eton College and Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. Credited to 'the Author of The Roof-Climber's Guide To Trinity'.
Young has written 'My Copy' on the front cover, and his bookplate is pasted to the inside front cover, along with a typed quotation from a letter from John Ruskin to Effie Gray. On the opposite page are pasted a typed quotation from Stephen Gosson, School of Abus and two newspaper cuttings, one from the Times, 29 Apr. 1942 re ‘Roof-Alpinism’ as part of fire-watching at Oxford, and another undated entitled ‘Royal Roof Climbers’ re a visit by the King and Queen to the roof of St George's Chapel, Windsor, during restorations. An MS quotation from Mrs Gamp [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit] is also written out on this page. MS quotations from Webster, Waugh and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle written out on the first back endpaper, facing the colophon.
Several MS corrections and annotations, in both pencil and ink, added throughout the printed text.
Full title: 'Bad Aunt Bertha, or, A Puritan's Progress, being the memoirs of Bertha Wright written in France during the decade of 1970-1980.' Includes sketches by Bertha Wright, photographs and original letters. With original packaging, labelled by Bertha Wright.
Doncaster. - Houghton's kind notice of his circular; Mr Parker may have explained why Jackson seeks new employment; genealogical work excites little interest; seeks Record Office position or similar; knows Mr Frank but believes he does not value his collections enough to pay for them to be sorted.
Trinity College, Cambridge. - Found letter and detective magazine on his return from a weekend in Hastings; Smythies has got unconditional exemption [from conscription?]; feeling run down.
Harrow. - His brother Frank has been passed over by the Bishop of Winchester; would Houghton consider him for vacant Bishopric of Chester?
Thanks for photographs