British Museum, W.C.1. - Sorry he missed Trevelyan, who must stay with them next time he comes to London. Has done some 'miscellaneous T'ang poems', mainly by contemporaries of Po Chu-I, and encloses one [no longer present]. Is going to Tidmarsh [home of Lytton Strachey] on Sunday and is most excited: wants to see 'the education of those patient females' with his own eyes. Is attending a meeting of the Philological Society to hear a paper on 'the Ergonics [sic] of the Japanese Language'; does not know 'in the least what that means'. Asks if Trevelyan heard James Strachey's 'address to the 1917 Club on the Sex Question" on Tuesday evening. Can see 'the unmistakeable figure of [Harry] Norton] from the window, perhaps going from Gordon Square to 'tea with his sister Betty in Grays Inn'. Asks if Trevelyan has read the "Poet's Pilgrimage" by W. H. Davies, which he almost liked better than 'the tramp book' ["The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp"]
(Copy of A2/18/1, cut from a larger document.)
Refers to A3/14/5-7. He does not wish Reading to think that he wished to suggest sending for Gandhi.
(Typed, with handwritten alterations. Not sent.)
India Office, London, S.W.1.—Sends, for Mr [Austen] Chamberlain’s information, a copy of a telegram from the Viceroy to Mr Montagu.
(Typed, with handwritten alterations. Used for transmission.)
(Official.) Gandhi was arrested on the 10th.
(Mechanical copy of typed original.)
5 Cadogan Gardens, S.W.3. - Is sorry to hear of their bad health; is going to the West Indies; feels for the Jews and refugees: 'the things done are almost unbelievably bad & cruel'.
32 loose pages from a printed volume(s?) with music and verses of French songs probably used by Lilly Frazer. Accompanied by an advertisement for 'Chansons Populaires, Recueillies dans les Alpes Françaises' par Julien Tiersot with music and verses for 'La Fiancée Lointaine'.
FRAZ/9 consists of 1 box of material relating to 'The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion' spanning the dates 1931-1936. It contains the manuscript draft of Vol. I, printed in 1932; the typescript of Volume III, and a typescript of a notebook containing bibliographies for subjects covered in all three volumes. There is more material housed in FRAZ/26, including some slight variants of the bibliographies; and material relating to the French translation, 'La crainte des morts'.
28 Grange Road, Barnes, S.W.13. - Thanks her for her letter and the two letters from Marett; still thinks they should not publish the Marett lecture [in the book of Frazer Lectures, due to content relating to Elliot Smith] as it is so different in tone from the other lectures; thinks his point about Jane Harrison [in the letter from Marett to Lady Frazer dated 25 July, FRAZ/17/27] is not a true parallel; returns the Marett letters.
7A Stanley Gardens, W.11. - Thanks Trevelyan for the selection of unpublished poems to be considered for inclusion in Abercrombie's new collection [see 1/8]. Prefers the poem addressed to Elizabeth Muntz ["Epistle to E. M."] and advises on a title, though he also praises "The Fig Tree" and "Envious Time". Michael [his son] is recovering but still needs treatment.
The Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge [Printed form completed in manuscript] - Thanks Frazer for his donation of five portfolios of Italian and Greek photographs.
33 Ossington Street, Bayswater. - After 'the first shock of this great calamity' [war between Britain and Germany], she felt that if she put aside the poem [Trevelyan's 'Bride of Dionysus', which she is translating into German] she may not be able to take it up again, so since Trevelyan seemed to wish it to be finished she has kept on and almost finished it. When she hears that he has returned to the Shiffolds, she will send him the score of the last act and her manuscript. Thinks he ought to pay her less than first agreed since the work will not be put on in Germany.
4 Belmont, Dyke Road, Brighton.—Has found the word ‘kine’ or ‘kyme’ in use at South Malling.
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4 Belmont, Dyke Road, Brighton
25 Octr 1904
Dear Dr Kirkpatrick
You asked me a long while ago about the word Kine or Kyme & I have at last found it & curiously at South Malling. The clerk there knew no other name for weasels!
By chance I asked & he knew it at once. He said “One of the Choir boys last week at practice came in & said ‘Muster Colwell there is a stut (stoat) on the path’ {1}. I went out & said you little stupid it’s only a kine”.
He went on “there are ferts (ferrets) {2} & stuts & kine”.
He is the only one however I have met in many parts of Sussex. I think it must be rather local.
With our united kind remembrances to you all
Yours sincerely
C. H. Griffith
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{1} Closing inverted comma supplied.
{2} ‘(ferrets)’ interlined above ‘ferts’; no caret.
(With an envelope.)
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Trinity College | Cambridge
6 Nov. 1929
My dear Gerald,
I have just had a request from the Colonial Office to tell them all your bad qualities (refusal to learn Catechism &c), so I want to know what you are up to now, and whether you have abandoned your studies in London, and are off to Africa again. At any rate I hope the malaria is put right.
I am now at the ordinary work of term.
Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.
[DIrection on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | c/ Rupert Jackson Esq. M.D. | 97 Clifton Avenue | West Hartlepool [Redirected to:] 33 Courtfield Rd | S: Kensington | London S W 7
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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 6 November and at West Hartlepool at 11.30 a.m. on the 7th.
Four printed items bearing revisions in Whewell's hand, and five sheets of drafts in Whewell's hand. The drafts include two sheets headed "Examination for Honours in the Moral Sciences"; a proposal for a grace concerning lecture tickets related to a grace appointing the professorial condition for B.A. Degrees adopted 31 October 1848; two sheets concerning the costs relating to the botanic garden. The printed material includes a heavily revised draft of "Proposed alterations in the Questionists' examination", a final version of which may be found in folder 1 of this collection.
39 Bedford Place, W.C.1.—Cites a 17th-century reference illustrating the practice of posting up title-pages as advertisements.
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39 Bedford Place | W.C.1,
April 18, 1930
Dr. R. B. McKerrow
44 Museum Street, W.C.1.
Dear Sir,
On page 90, note 2, of your Introduction to Bibliography you cite a number of allusions to the practise of posting up title-pages as advertisements. You may be interested in this passage from Dr. Fludds Answer Unto M. Foster, or, The Squesing of Parson Fosters Sponge (London, for N. Butler, 1631, sig. A3v) which although it does not refer exactly to a commercial advertisement takes its point from the fact that they were common. Dr. Fludd writes in his Introduction
“I have perceived his [William Foster’s] indiscreet importunity to extend itself so far as to urge me beyond the bounds of patience by setting up in the night time two of the frontispieces or Titles of his book [Hoplocrisma-spongus, or, A Sponge to Wipe away the Weapon Salve, 1631.] as a Challenge, one on each poste of my doore”.
Yours very truly,
Edwin E. Willoughby
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The square brackets are original.
(This illustration was used in Notes on Bibliographical Evidence, p. 15, and An Introduction to Bibliography, p. 47.)
Public Record Office.—The Master of the Rolls hopes that Aldis Wright will be able to put the copy for his volume into the printer’s hands during the summer.
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Public Record Office
16 April 1874.
Dear Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 30 March, the Master of the Rolls hopes that you will be able to put the whole copy for your Volume in the printer’s hands in the course of the summer.
I remain, | Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
T. Duffus Hardy
W. Aldis Wright Esq