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Christ's College Lodge - Thanks WW for having preached the sermon before the University and expressing 'the grief which we all partook' of the death of Dr French.

RJ explains why he will not be voting in Cambridge at the forthcoming election [see RJ to WW, 11 November 1822]: 'to come and help turn out whichever you may elect at the next election and to be able to do this with a clear conscience it is surely best to give no vote at all now - with a view to this good purpose I hope Scarlett may get in - it will be easy to turn him out and not so easy any of the others[.] as to Herschel [John Herschel] he votes merely because he thinks Peacock [George Peacock] takes the thing to heart whatever other views he may talk about'. With regard to the Saints [the Saints candidate is Grant] - 'respectable and well meaning as some of the leading ones are if ever it is your lot to witness the hypocrisy and fanaticism exhibited while living and while dying by a set of people almost invariably the converts of some silly man who fortifies himself in doing mischief because he thinks he has the countenance of Mssrs - Wilberforce[,] Baring[,] Stephens etc. etc. you would I am sure scrupulously avoid helping to place in any situation of conspicuous weight an individual of their class and whoever or whatever he might be in himself - I think with you that Grant personally is by far the most eligible of the four but I earnestly hope he may not be successful'.

Eton College - ECH's friend, Charles Knight, is very anxious to be introduced to WW, with a view of exciting WW in favour of a new enterprise: 'He proposes to bring out another edition of his Cyclopedia (which I hope he will cease to call Penny) in a new form. He wishes to give it all the improvements which are required by the advances of art and science since the first publication was completed...He has already assured himself of the support of some great names, and he is very anxious to induce you to become one of his contributors'.

Decorated with transfer sticker of a sailing ship. Hopes his family are well and happy, as he is. There is a 'rage for Stilographic and Antistilographic [sic] pens'. Hugo has not been expelled. Will be 'very glad' to have a few photographs. Is 'top for the week in Latin'. The exams are this week. Asks his mother to send some stamps, envelopes and note paper. Mrs Arnold gives lectures on botany. Has begun to collect stamps; Smith has given him 21, Browning 7, and Smith is going to give him some more; knows she does not mind. Glad to hear Grandpapa [Trevelyan?] Is better. Robert and Charlie have been writing postcards to each other ‘in the secret way’. Adds a postscript hoping that Sophy is all right.

[St Paul Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota.]—Is writing briefly, in order to reach him before he leaves New York for South America. Is glad Smith has left England, as there is little to look forward to there, and in South America there will be more freedom from distractions. His own difficulties are ‘only those that a Cambridge undergraduate who read English under Leavis would tend to feel in a Middle Western seminary’, and some of the other seminarians exhibit ‘intelligence and perspicacity, even in a "Scrutiny" sense’. Encourages him to look up the 'Catholic Worker' in New York, as it is the most vital movement in the Church in America.

Horn Hill Court, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks. - Thanks Trevelyan for "From the Shiffolds": has reread his 'beautiful poem' to [Goldsworthy] Lowes Dickinson. Is sure the 'wisdom' and 'light of the spirit' does not 'go out' at death, and this 'world of beautiful spirits' 'may be very near' the living, part of the 'mystery of life' which man may 'fathom one day. Nobody knew about 'ether waves a hundred years ago' though they were 'always there'. Or, as Trevelyan says, it might be that 'words & deeds' will not die, but continue to work in secret in 'the hearts of men unborn' (to quote his poem to Marjory Allen). However, she thinks she has felt goodness and evil 'emanating' from people, signifying 'some unmaterial power' in the world. Discusses memory and capturing of moments in poetry. Trevelyan's poetry always brings her 'tranquillity'. Adds a postscript to say she is enclosing a poem she wrote 'many years ago', which she fears is 'very imperfect'.

Separate sheet with Roscoe's poem "The Giant Buddha (At the Chinese Exhibition)"

5 Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C.4. - The appeal of N.S.R. [the National Service Representative] against Trevelyan from the Dorking Local Tribunal was heard at Guildford on 27 July 1918. It was decided by the Appeal Tribunal that Trevelyan should have exemption from military service conditional on him remaining employed with the Relief Committee of the Society of Friends.

Account of mistake made by Mr [Barwell?] Ewins Bennett at a party given by Mark Philips during the assize week at Warwick: having drunk 'freely' of the 'wonderful sherry', he called it on leaving 'that excellent Marsala'. Also a comic poem about the occasion composed by a 'wag in court' when asked 'how many rhymes he could make to Marsala in 10 minutes'.

No. 30 of 'Journal des débats'.

Informational booklet detailing the arrangements for the International Congress.

19 Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Thanks him for the biography, found it most interesting; takes issue with the idea that 'the one abiding cause ... is ... the pursuit of knowledge or truth': quotes Plato and Browning, thinks that 'learning at its noblest is after all only one line of approximation ... to the character of God', and quotes Timaeus 29e.

Trinity College, Cambridge - The grant the College was giving Frazer for secretarial help has expired but they are making a further grant of £100 to support the 'Anthologia Archaeologica' [Anthropologica]; the Fellowship dividend is also being paid.

National Portrait Gallery - Form letter completed in manuscript with stamped signature inviting Frazer to sit for a portrait photograph for their collection.

12 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W. - Saw Helen yesterday and today; took her Bob's book ["Mallow and Asphodel"], in which 'I forged yr. initials & her name in yr. handwriting', thinking this would make it 'more valuable to her'. Upset at first to find how ill she was, and 'how hopeless it seemed to arrive at her real self at all', but spent several hours with her; Edith Coombe [Helen's sister] was there throughout. Towards the end Helen woke up, asked questions about her friends and the harpsichord [which she is decorating for Dolmetsch] and seemed much pleased by the book, responding to Fry's prompts about Bob's reading to them at Taormina; also discussed a picture by Fry hanging in her room. This was all an improvement and 'quite astonished Dr Chambers'; she was quieter today but seemed easier with him; hopes he will be able to do her some good and will visit every day unless it excites her too much; very hard to 'keep up a one sided conversation for 3 hrs' and feels quite drained at the end. Asks Bob to help by writing to Helen, talking of 'simple things & yr. fondness for her - everything which gives her an idea of her own importance & helpfulness to others is good', and by giving Fry 'interesting & amusing things about people & books' to talk about with her. Is finding his writing very hard, since Helen 'seems all important' and he cannot bring himself to care 'a tuppenny damn' about 'the date of Bissolo's death', but it is a good distraction. Knows Bob will help.

(Published by The Booklovers’ Resort, W. Kensington. Undated. Date from the British Library Catalogue.)

JN cannot add to the 400 greetings.

Grecian Coffee House, Strand - WW writes to inform HJR of what the seniors have determined: 'they have thought me worthy to be one of their number - so that I may now if I chuse go on imbibing college ale & college politics for the rest of my life'. News on other fellowship candidates. WW is 'ready to meditate upon reviews[,] magazines[,] essays or any other project for the good of mankind and our own immortalization'. Does HJR know where Richard Jones is - he would like to go and see him.

(Place of writing not indicated.)

(Transcript in an unidentified hand.)

Records of experiments, diagrams of apparatus, tables of results, etc. 28 November 1924-23 April 1926. Many of the entries are in the hand of J.D. McKay (Thomson's laboratory assistant). The book contains a few loose pages of notes which have been left in place.

Hesitates to intrude upon her sorrow, but assures her that no day has passed without his thinking of Henry Sidgwick, whom he loved and honoured. Explains that he learned from Frederick Pollock that she was collecting Henry's letters. Refers to the only one he has [not included], which was written to him the previous winter.