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One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Marseilles Aa 1.

Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting, Harvard Medical School's New England Regional Primate Research Center, 3–4 May 1990, Southborough, Massachusetts

Thanks him for his letter. Declares his advice to be good, and states that he is disposed to adopt it. Quotes Alexander Pope: 'To err is human, to succeed Divine', and Francis I: 'Tout est sauvé [ ] l'honneur'.

7 Camdn. St. & T. - Thanks WW for the number 2 of the intrinsic equation and for the paper on Political Economy [Mathematical Exposition of some Doctrines of Political Economy: Second Memoir, 1850], is 'always stopped in political economy by that diabolical currency'. ADM picked up today his own 'note of an old Hindoo rule in Viga Granita which has never to my knowledge been made European', on how to extract the square root of a + √b + √c + √d. 'Really these elephant riding widow burning [?] were noways contemptible.'

Postmarked Camucia, Arezzo, addressed to Trevelyan at Pensione Palumbo, Ravello (Salerno). - Thanks Trevelyan for the postcard; imagines he is now settled at Ravello. Has just started to read "Galahad" and finds it charning; has also just read "King Lear" and is reading Trevelyan's translation of the "Choephori". [Giustino] Fortunato has given him an account of Trevelyan's visit, which he seems much to have enjoyed.

21, Theatre Road, Calcutta (on University of Calcutta printed notepaper). - Agrees that each poem should be printed on a separate page. Asks if the 'Cambridge Press' is the 'Cambridge University Press'; he had thought that a privately printed book should come out with a press like the Chelsea or the Golden Cockerel who specialised in such things, but Trevelyan is the best judge. Thinks 200 copies will be enough. G. [Marie Germanova] will be glad to see Julian and Ursula. Is finding the weather trying: India is 'a horrible place to live in; nature is never unobtrusive or reticent'.

Capt. J.M. Luce c/o Grindlay's Bank, Bombay. - Thanks Trevelyan for the airgraph: the news of Dick Bosanquet's death is indeed very sad. Is well: boredom is 'the worst disease' as they are far from the war; hopes to get some variety soon. Would be pleased to receive Trevelyan's translations of the Bucolics and Georgics [of Virgil] and read his prose essays ["Windfalls"]; asks if he has put poetry aside. Praises Rex [Warner's] book "Why Was I Killed". Hopes it will not be long before he reads Mat Arnold in Trevelyan's library again.

Postmarked Weybridge; addressed to Trevelyan at the 1917 Club, 5 Garrard Street, W.C. - 'Colonel S--t' [see 3/45] has accepted; asks whether Trevelyan can meet Forster for lunch next Thursday. Took his mother to see the puppets [Gair Wilkinson's show at the Poetry Bookshop?]: liked the monkey and a dragon.

48 Campden Hill Square - Congratulates Frazer.

Hill House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire - Asks for permission to use excerpts from 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' and 'The Golden Bough' in a collection of poems and passages on dreams and sleep. A pencilled note at top: 'Permission given'.

Trevelyan's confidence in Waley's 'scholarship and accuracy as a translator', and praise of his translations for lacking 'irrelevant echoes of English poetical rhetoric and technique. The words only are English; the spirit is Chinese'. The gathering today is to give sympathy and whatever help they can to the Chinese people in their current 'terrible and undeserved trials'; to sympathise, it is necessary to understand, and literature is one of the best ways of 'understanding the character and the mental qualities of a people'. Waley's work as a translator and 'historian of ideas and culture' cover over two thousand years of Chinese civilization; he has recently published a translation of "Monkey", which dates from as late as the Ming Dynasty. Thirty years ago, Trevelyan spent a few weeks at Pekin [Beijing], and visited the Temple of Confucius with a Chinese friend, Mr Kung, who was he thinks a 60th generation descendant of a cousin of Confucius. As a southerner, Kung had never before visited the Temple, 'from which the tablet of Confucius had lately been sacrilegiously removed by Yuan Shi-k'ay' and was much moved; Trevelyan felt awkward as he had always 'ignorantly thought Confucius a 'rather tiresome, pedantical sort of moraliser'. Now however, having read Waley's translations of and writing on Confucius, he realises his wisdom, humanity, and sense of humour.

Handwritten text to be given after Waley's reading, commenting that his 'quiet unemphatic' reading style is well suited to the poetry, and inviting the audience to ask any questions they may have. Has also been asked to draw the audience's attention to the interesting 'exhibition of contrasted Chinese and English art' upstairs.

Has just finished reading Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, and thanks Nora again for giving it to her; reading it 'has been like living with old friends over again. Remarks on how Henry's 'unique character shines out of that wonderful series of letters from early days to the patient givingup of all that life means in the last dozen....' Notes also that at the end he was not tired of life; that he wanted to live, and had Nora by his side. Recalls Henry at Mentone, 'and then through the [ ] of years until that last pitiful sight of him in the nursing-home....' Suggests that the love he won from his friends was his best gift, and declares what good company he was. Has a letter he wrote to her daughter Katharine 'in the last weeks of her engagement to Charles Furse.' States that she has Katharine and her boys with her now. There is an exhibition of Charles' work at the Burlington Club Rooms in the following few weeks, and they will probably go to it.

On headed notepaper, 'S. Rothenheim, publisher | Patronized by His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Family, and by His Imperial Majestry the Emperor Napoleon III | 169, City Road, E.C.'

Essentially notes which have become detached from their original context or ones that are not readily identifiable.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 16 May 1919 - Is sorry to hear of the sailing delay [of his ship for his expedition]; encloses a comparative vocabulary of Swahili dialects [not transcribed]; Lilly thinks he should apply to Denison Ross for the phonograph records which even if duplicated and stored would still form a 'permanent and valuable series of documents, to which you or others could at any time refer.'