Account of a holiday in Italy: Rome,
Entitled "List of Portraits of Trinity Men in the College Library" giving the size of the plate, the size of the paper, the painter's name and/or the engraver's name, with annotations by Lord Adrian recording additions to the list and presence of some of the works in the Combination Room.
Printing of sale particulars for John Mayor, Jane Mayor's faith: Haymarket
C/o Miss (Mary A.) Hollingworth, Leithen, Newnham Road, Bedford.—Asks him to write a testimonial to the Pitt Press in support of her system of ‘orthotype’ (‘a method of Printing Reform versus Spelling Reform’), and encloses related papers.
(With envelope. Undated. Postmarked 20 Nov. 1909.)
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c/o of† Miss Hollingworth
Leithen, Newnham Road, Bedford
Dear Mr Wright,
The Pitt Press staff are now deciding whether they will publish my Orthotype Method or no. You will remember I asked your advice about it when we were staying at Dr Ginsburg’s. It is a method of Printing Reform versus Spelling Reform intended to save our international words such as “nation” “philosopher” {1} etc. from destruction at the hands of the Spelling Reformers. It is evident that if they succeed there will be no longer any English Language,—but an American, Anglo-Indian, Anglo-Chinese, Scotch, Irish, South British, {2} North British or Anglo-African—language etc. in these several countries. i.e. Our Empire will have no common language.
Could you send me a testimonial to the effect that you disapprove of the method of sacrificing what is permanent & international i e the spelling, to that which is local & transitory i.e. the sound, & that if a phonetic key is necessary for students & teachers you prefer Orthotype which does not alter the spelling. I enclose you a copy of a letter just received from W. St Clair Tisdall D.D. who is a well-known Orientalist & reputed to know 40 languages. You will see that he considers Orthotype indispensable.
I should be very grateful for a quick reply to the Pitt Press (the secretary has my manuscript) or to myself.
With very kind regards | Believe me
Yours sincerely
Anne Deane Butcher
[Direction on envelope:] Wm Aldis Wright Esq. L.L.D. | Trinity College | Cambridge
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The envelope was postmarked at Bedford on 20 November 1909.
{1} Opening inverted commas supplied.
{2} Comma supplied.
† Sic.
Exercise-book, with ms. note by G.K. Batchelor inside front cover 'Notebook used by G.I.T. on `Scotia' in 1913'. Contains notes, drawings and calculations on anemometer observations on turbulent air, 8 May-27 July 1913. Includes drawings for the tethered kite on the mast-head which enabled successful observations to be taken.
Some pages have been torn from the rear of the book.
Description of Samuel Lambrick, Henry Bickersteth wants Robert and Lambrick to go to Ceylon, meeting with a converted Russian general, preached in London: Church Missionary House
5 Russell Square. - Gustavus Hare has purchased property near Galway but would be glad of a stipendiary magistracy in Ireland to supplement his income. Georgiana's kind regards to Milnes' wife
Calculations under headings: 'Bills 1840'; 'Given'; 'Living'; 'M.P.'; 'Lost'; 'Clubs'; 'Travelling'; 'Books'; 'Lodging'.
(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.