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(Cambridge.)—Cannot get away from Cambridge before Friday. Alludes to various theological doctrines relating to the body of Christ.

(Undated. Marked ‘1869’.)

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Union Society, Cambridge

Dear Fred

can’t fix it nohow to get a way† from Cambridge before Friday afternoon. Awfully sorry. The universe physical moral and spiritual has been execrated; in vain. I know “sicut in loco” {1} was condemned by the council of Trent; and think oculus saltem glorificatus {2} means only hyperæsthesia which is well known as a disease of the celestials. Will read S. Th. again on 1st opportunity. The Capernaite views {3} made it necessary to give distinct denials to several absurdly material doctrines, and the denials were afterwards made to mean more. Thus the refinement you mention of the harmless remark that “no man hath seen God at any time” into “the Divine essence is per se beyond human perceptive faculties”.

Yours ever
W.K.C.

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{1} Cf. Aquinas, Summa Theologica, III. 76. 5: ‘corpus Christi non est in hoc sacramento sicut in loco, sed per modum substantiae: eo scilicet modo quo substantia continetur a dimensionibus’ (‘the body of Christ is not in this sacrament as in a place, but in the manner of a substance, that is, in the manner in which a substance is contained by dimensions’).

{2} oculus saltem glorificatus. i.e. ‘the specially glorified eye.’ Cf. Summa Theologica, I. 12. 3: ‘Ergo oculus glorificatus potest videre Deum’ (‘Therefore the glorified eye can see God’).

{3} i.e. the views of those who believe in transubstantiation.

† Sic.

Re children of the poet Robert Bloomfield.

Brook St. - Written at 10.30 [am?].'dear Annabel is safe in bed - with a magnificent Boy - it was born this morning at a little before ten o'clock'. More details of the labour, attended by Dr Rigby, 'it is the shortest time Annabel has had'.

The contents of the present class relate to the following:

Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough (1-4)
Allen & Unwin Ltd (5-12)
The American War Memorial Chapel (13-17)
L. S. Amery (18-21)
Lord Ammon (22-9)
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (30-9)
Louisa Garrett Anderson (40-56)
Earl Attlee (57-81)
A. K. Azad (82-7, 88a-c, 89-90)
Lord Balfour of Burleigh (91)
George Benson (92-4)
Phyllis Bentley (95-100)
The British-Asian and Overseas Socialist Fellowship (101-2, 103a-b)
R. A. Butler (104)
Lord Casey (105-15, 115a, 116-18)
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (119-46)
Viscount Chandos (147-51)
Tara Cherian (152-7)
G. D. H. and M. I. Cole (158-69)
Lord Coleraine (170-1)
Hugh and Ruth Dalton (172-87, 188a-b, 189-203)
Eamon De Valera (204-5)
The Duke of Devonshire (206-7)
The Earl of Dundee (208-9)
Lady Durning-Lawrence (210)
The East and West Friendship Council (211-30)
The East India Association (231a-b, 232-43)
Anthony Eden (244-6)
Walter Elliot and Lady Elliot of Harwood (247-50)
Lady Elphinstone (251-2)
Eton College (253-6, 257a-e, 258-60)
The Fabian Society (261-76)
The Field Security Police (277a-b, 278-80)
E. M. Forster (281-97)
Margery Fry (298-303, 304a-b, 305-21)
Hugh Gaitskell (322-3)
Indira Gandhi (324)
The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Fund (325-6)
R. C. Ghose (327-34, 335a-b, 336-7, 338a-b, 339a-c, 340)
Thomas Gold (341-56)
Victor Gollancz Ltd (357-79)
Sir Ernest and Lady Graham-Little (380, 381a-b, 382-9, 390a-b, 391-5)

Inscribed to Whewell by the author.

Arena Stage, 6th & Maine Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024 - It was good to see him again, thinks he is holding up well, singing some of Steve [Sondheim?]'s more difficult songs.

Photocopies and original newspaper and magazine cuttings and an entire issue of What's On in London dated 2-8 Nov. 1979.

Cc'ed to Peter Shaffer, concerning the option on the dramatic rights to Dan Jacobson's novel The Rape of Tamar.

Photocopies of articles relating to the scholarly argument concerning the circumstances of Tchaikovsky's death: an article in the New York Times by Donal Henahan ("Did Tchaikovsky Really Commit Suicide?"), articles in High Fidelity by Joel Spiegelman ("The Trial, Condemnation, and Death of Tchaikovsky"), and Nina Berberova ("Tchaikovsky's 'Suicide' Reconsidered: A Rebuttal"), including a typescript letter to the editor of by Spiegelman and accompanied by a typescript "Table of Comparison between Stories by Dr Lev B. Bertenson and Modeste I. Tchaikovsky regarding the illness and death of P. I. Tchaikovsky," and a copy of a translation of a letter, "On Tchaikovsky's death" from Alexandra Orlova, and her article in Music & Letters ("Tchaikovsky: the Last Chapter").

Typescript draft revised in Shaffer's hand accompanied by a folder identifying it as the first draft; folder has a draft of a scene written on the front.

Volume One and Only, edited by Anthony Shaffer. Featuring two articles by Peter: "Trick Photography or the Real Thing?, signed 'Levine'" and "Catastrophozzi Castle by Mrs. Bannister, digested by Peter Shaffer". Accompanied by typescript carbon of "Catastrophozzi Castle" article.

Blue W H Smith notebook with drafts of scenes from 'Bezique' and 'Black Comedy' and a bit of a memoir of his own life.

Is very sorry not to be able to play Miss Furnival and Baroness Lemberg, reluctantly returns his scripts, as she finds they tend to be in short supply.

c/o 11 Cranley Gardens, Flat 7, London - Photocopy of a thank you note for a weekend written in the form of a review of a play.

Autograph hunter.

The Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor, 21 Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3UJ - Describes the Society and invites him to join; with membership form and booklet.

Hopes he is not bored at Westgate; was 'picked up' by a man in London on her way to St Ives, describes people on the train, and bohemian types in St Ives itself.

Concerns 11 Cranley Gardens SW7; encloses a report from C. Crocker of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Environmental Services concerning the works required.

Bound typescript draft, with marks in pencil to mark excisions, and a few additions in PS's hand. 'Production copy' written on front free endpaper in PS's hand.

Duplicated playscript with emendations in Shaffer's hand, and various pages replacing earlier pages and some scenes missing, with Peter Shaffer's signature at top left of the first page.

Photographs taken by Angus McBean for the Festival Theatre, most of them with captions identifying the actors: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Rod Beacham, Peter Cellier, Lewis Fiander, Mike Gambon, Roy Holder, Robert Lang, Gerald McNally, Dan Meaden, James Mellor, Christopher Timothy, and Michael Turner.

In a letter from Peter to Johnson he explains that he wrote 'The Woman In the Wardrobe' under a pseudonym because he and Anthony [Shaffer] wanted to write two more together under that name; provides a riddle to guess the pseudonym they used. This is accompanied by fax transmission sheet. The reply from Johnson apologises for misattributing 'The Woman in the Wardrobe' to Anthony Shaffer, and for getting the type of work wrong: a detective novel and not a play, and notes that Shaffer has not revealed what happened at the end, prolonging his 'agony'; thanks him for kind remarks about his column.