Condolences on the death of C J Monk
(With an envelope.)
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Transcript
Trinity College
14 Oct. 1926
Dear Semple,
I am glad to hear from you, and suggest that you should come and see me on Tuesday the 26th at 6 o’clock, sending beforehand the notes you want to discuss. I do not propose next Tuesday because my hands just now are very full.
Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.
4 Aug 1926
[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | 8 Hertford Street | [At the foot] Local
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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.45 p.m. on 14 Oct.
Ground plan and elevation of a dam.
Letters from Dr A. Berkaloff in French
Henry Bickersteth pleased with Mary Anna’s furniture purchases
Preparations for sailing for India.
Bury St Edmunds
Fears about Francis Grote's reading, has seen a house on Streatham Common: Belmont
Review of On the foundation of morals in [The Times, 1837?]; The philosophy of the inductive sciences in The Athenaeum no. 672, 12 Sept. 1840; Of the philosophy of discovery in The Literary Gazette no. 91 (2251), 24 Mar. 1860 [entire issue present] and The Press 12 May 1860; and Platonic dialogues for English readers in The Saturday Review 20 Apr. 1861.
81 Tredegar Road, North Bow E. - In response to Frazer's question he came across no difference of language between men and women in New Guinea or Borneo, the Torres Straits, Micronesia, the southern New Hebrides, the Loyalty Islands; suggests he consult Rev. Canon Codrington on the languages of Melanesia.
Visited USA, treatment of Black Americans, colonialism in South Africa, trip from South Africa to Rhodesia by German cargo boat to see Richard Sanford who had left Sandhurst in his last term, Durban, to sell house at Runnymede
Includes group of 9 photographs contained in an envelope inscribed 'Figs. in test'.
Correspondence re visits and research.
27 Dorset House, Gloucester Place, N.W.1. - Thanks her for her offer of one of her brother's books, makes arrangements to meet.