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Written on board H.M.S. Tartarus, off Tarbert, cove of Cork, addressed to Mary Lake at 144 Pread [Praed] Street, Paddington, London. - Received her letter with the money order; thinks she had better go to Woolich [Woolwich] and ask Mr Robinson to direct her to Mr [?] Vening. He is well and hopes she is too; they are just waiting for another ship to come then they are going to Cork.

Venice, addressed to Milnes at 26 Pall Mall, London.

Harworth Church, sent to Houghton at Fryston Hall. - Writing as churchwardens. The sum for the restoration and enlargement of the church exceeding the amount currently subscribed for by the town, they have been requested to write again to ask for Houghton's assistance. The committee hope that sufficient funds may be raised from the landowners in Harworth and residents here and in 'two adjoining Townships who attend the Church'. Enclosure: 'Subscriptions to the Harworth Church fund'.

24 Bryanston Street, W.—Discusses the Cliffords’ health and movements. The doctors do not think that Willi should return to England yet. She and Fred think of coming to join them, perhaps with the children. Gives news of their present activities and engagements.

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24 Bryanston Street W
June 13./78

Dearest Lucy

A great many thanks for 2 letters from Malta & Genoa w[hic]h I got the day before yesterday, & for the others from Malta w[hic]h I could not acknowledge as we had no address. We were thankful that Malta seemed to suit Willi & that you fell in with pleasant friends. It was a great pity that you had an accident & were laid up; how did it happen? I do hope you are quite right again. I hope you took your journey to Lugano very very quietly and that you will soon establish yourselves comfortably at Monte Generoso. Fred wrote to you yesterday to tell you of his interview with Dr Clark. He said that nothing he sh[oul]d like better than to order you home in August or so, it would be so good for Willi morally, but that unless he really improves in the next month it would be most imprudent. Both he & Dr Beatty agree that in his present state nothing wd be worse for Willi than an English climate. You know Fred & I have set our hearts upon joining you wherever you are when the time comes for our holiday, at the Rieder Alp or in Yorkshire or Scotland & I sometimes think that we might easily manage to bring out both our kids so as to enjoy them altogether—I mean Ethel & Alice & perhaps C. Alice too. We shd not bring Alice if we cd not bring Ethel too. Don’t you think it would make Willi happier to stay abroad if he were to see his little girl & have her for about 4 weeks? Everybody goes abroad in August & if you were to come home you would find all your friends scattered. We have been staying with Mrs Ritchie near Windsor for Whitsuntide, & they & the Douglas Freshfields are all thinking of going to the Rieder Alp with great enthusiasm. The Tyndalls would be close by at the Bel Alp. So that on the whole I cannot help thinking you would enjoy yourselves more in Switzerland in August than in Great Britain, & that I suspect would be the only month Willi would be allowed home.

The W. Colliers are in London for a week & ask after you. Also we have some Dutch people over here to entertain. We did so enjoy our holiday in the country & London feels most dreadfully stuffy & stale on coming back. It is a joy to breathe in the country. Fred will have told you about Walter’s lecture at the R.I. They went to St Julians for their holiday & the parents are in Paris. I am a great deal better, in fact quite well. We are to take our Dutchman & woman to the R.I. tomorrow to hear Prof. Dewar on the Liquefaction of Gases. An interesting article in Mind next month will be “An infant’s Progress in Language”—i.e. Alice’s, done by her dada. I do hope you will be happy at Monte Generoso & meet friends. Best love to yr old man & you. Ever dear Lucy yr affectionate

GHP.

Letter of 5 Jan [1866] expresses sympathy on the fire at Crewe Hall; after Emily Curzon's message there is a note from her husband, Hon. Robert Curzon.

Reports on the progress of their [honeymoon] journey: they reached Dover 'without adventure', and had a smooth crossing [to Calais], then a pleasant, but dusty, rail journey to Amiens. They have been to see the cathedral, which is beautiful. They intend going to Paris the following afternoon, and hope to get rooms at the Hôtel Bedford, Rue de l'Arcade. Is sorry she did not see Mary nearly as much as she had hoped to the previous day, but notes that Henry says that Mary promised to come to Cambridge to see them soon. Henry sends his love, and he hopes that Mary had a satisfactory interview with Dr Andrew Clark.

Thanks her for 'the Life' [Henry Sidgwick: a memoir] which is to him 'a priceless possession', and which 'reveals phases of [Henry's] long life-course and sides of his mind which one had not known or not seen the full meaning of'. Hopes to write to her again when he has finished reading; describes it as being 'as simple, and as perfect, as it could have been made.' States that Mr Dicey and Mrs Creighton and others concur with him in the latter sentiment.

Fragment: arrangements under the will of [Frederick or Robert Grote]

Death of Robert Henry Blossett: Barrackpore

Expresses his sympathy with her on the death of Henry Sidgwick, who, he claims, was 'a very near and dear relative', and whose demise fills his heart 'with sorrow and mourning'. Claims to have always regarded him as 'one of the noblest, most just, most upright man in [Cambridge] University'. Refers also to 'his courage and fearlessness in supporting the Right, no matter against what odds'.

[Death of Elizabeth Birks], Mrs Jessopp's school at Helstone, has long thought that the want of thought and of any higher principle than 'convention' and 'propriety' in the bulk of educated women is owing to the overstrictness which lays down a stiff rule for every moment of their time, Tennyson's Maud

Letters, photographs, and printed material relating to the award of the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre in April 1992. Includes letters and faxes of congratulation from those who could not be there: Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Julie Harris, Jessica Tandy Cronyn, Anthony Shaffer, Stephen Sondheim, Milos Forman, Roddy McDowall, Simon Callow, Ian McKellen, Bob Dole, Anthony Hopkins, Sidney Lumet, Michael Blakemore, Robert Lantz, Brian Bedford, David Carradine, and Gerald Schoenfeld.

Reflects on the weekend of the William Inge award in Independence, Kansas, and sends an excerpt from his speech introducing Peter.

Thanks him for his support of her and Peter [Hall].

Typescript revised in Shaffer's hand.

Admires the play.

Small notebook with scene revisions in Shaffer's hand.

Condolences on the death of Georgina Allix Mayor: [The Nurse's Hostel, Francis Street, London].

Includes letters 1918-20 addressed by Thomson to Keys, on experiments with underwater explosions at Shandon (Argyll).

λ rings and ψ operations'. 4pp typescript.