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54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio (Corse) - Doesn't know why she is complaining of heat when the papers show London flooded, while in Corsica they are pining for water for their gardens and vines; writes of Martine [Giamarchi, a great niece] who is staying with him; reacts to the change from Baba to Pascha [for 'Pasha the Pom'].

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse – Enjoyed the pages of the 'Times' and the coverage of the royal trip to Canada; saves such things for Martine [Giamarchi, a great niece] in 20 years; his old friend Albert Rivaud, whose father he knew, is elected to Lévy-Bruhl's chair at l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, and in congratulating him mentioned that he knew her, and thanked him for being one of the first to admire 'Le Rameau d'or'; he was visited by two young English women, Miss Joan Quartley and Miss Gwenyth Wilkins, who saw the Frazers' portraits and were proud of the honoured position their countrymen had in his house.

The title cited is from the title-page. The volume is labelled on the spine ‘St. Simon | Nouvelle Encyclopédie | MSS.‘, and on the front ‘L.D.L.S.’ The written leaves are numbered in the bottom right-hand corner from ‘d.73’ to ‘d.224’.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
19 May 1927

My dear Gerald,

I have your letter of March 24 and am glad that lions and influenza had not then made an end of you. I have never had influenza yet, but shall probably have it to-morrow.

I am interested to hear of your intentions about taking a research degree and possibly coming to Cambridge. Of course I should be glad to see you here, but it is no good asking my opinion and advice, which are valueless, as I stick to my job and know hardly anything about scientific studies here. Do not call Nicholas a Professor: he may perhaps become one some day, if he is good, and so may you; but Professors do not grow on every bush.

The eclipse of the sun on June 29 has evidently been arranged by Rupert, and Hartlepool is to be the most eclipsed spot. North Wales will be sprinkled with Fellows of Trinity sleeping out on mountain tops; but those are youngish men, who want to be able to tell lies about it in their old age to a generation which did not witness it; and I cannot expect to live long enough for that. Most of June I shall spend with old friends in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, and at the end of August I expect to go on a motoring tour in Burgundy.

I hope you will keep well, and not fall out of your aeroplane on to geological objects, however attractive.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

My godfather {1} is now 88, so it is not an unhealthy profession.

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{1} John Tuppen Woolwright.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
14 Feb. 1928

My dear Gerald,

I got your Christmas letter in surroundings very unlike your own. This has been the severest and most violent winter since 1894–5, what with frost and snow in December and gales and floods ever since. Once also we had a silver thaw, with roads and streets a sheet of ice, on which no one could keep his feet, and cars spun round and round. However, I noticed no buffalos hiding behind anthills, so we have something to be thankful for.

I heard from your mother about the same time, and she seemed to think that the condition of your Company’s affairs might lead to your having only two years instead of three; but I do not gather that from your own letter, and it would be a pity.

I suppose you will have met Oscar by now. When he was here in the summer I thought him very much changed since the war, but no doubt you would recognise him.

I am probably fixed here till June, when I expect to take a short holiday in France.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | R.C.B.C. Ltd. | NChanga, Via N’Dola | N. Rhodesia | Africa

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, half torn away, was postmarked at Cambridge at 3.15 p.m. on 14 February and at Ndola, N.W. Rhodesia, on 10 March.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
19 Sept. 1929

My dear Gerald,

I am extremely sorry that this vexatious trouble has come upon you. I hope you will find at the Royal School of Mines all that you require, and I suppose there is no doubt that you will. They say there is no cloud without a silver lining, and we may hope that it will not be two years, as it would have been, before you sit again at the table in our Combination Room.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | c/ R. W. P. Jackson Esq. M.D. | 97 Clifton Avenue | West Hartlepool [Redirected:] c/o Cook | Springfield

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 19 September.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
7 Nov. 1930

My dear Gerald,

When once you are admitted it will not be possible for me to ask you to the High Table, so will you come and dine with me in Hall on Thursday, the first day I have free; and I will ask Winstanley to put off your fall in the social scale till after wards†. Come to my rooms about 7.50 on the night.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. A. C.† Jackson Esq | B 3 New Court | Trinity College

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The envelope, which is not stamped or postmarked, has been marked in pencil ‘7.11.30’.

† Sic.

(With a photocopy of an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
6 Jan. 1931

My dear Gerald,

It may annoy you to hear that your College bill for last term is paid; but do not stick your heels in the ground and be nasty. If you could have any idea of what my feeling for your father was and still is you would not grudge me the pleasure.

Your gown is in cold-storage. I hope you are getting better of your malaria and that you will have a happy New Year for yourself and your thesis.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Imperial College Hostel | Prince Consort Road | S. W. 7.

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 6 January.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
6 July 1931

My dear Gerald,

I am glad that your thesis is recommended, though I never had much doubt that it would be, nor, I suppose, had you yourself really.

Your gown is awaiting you in the Porter’s Lodge at the Great Gate. I shall be away from the 10th to the 18th.

I like your type-writer better than your fountain-pen.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Imperial College Hostel | Prince Consort Road | S. W. 7

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 6 July.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
22 July 1931

My dear Gerald,

Will you come to breakfast next Sunday at 9 o’clock?

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Marked in pencil:] 22.7.31

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
29 Dec. 1932

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for your Christmas letter and card: I on my part wish you a happy New Year. Oscar also wrote. I suppose you all met at West Hartlepool. I had to eat three Christmas dinners in succession, but still survive.

You must soon be letting me know how much you calculate you will want for 1933. Do not cut it down too low as I do not want you to live with no margin.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1 [Redirected to:] 97 Clifton Avenue, West Hartlepool | c/o† Durham.

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 1.45 p.m. on 30 December and at London at 1.45 p.m. on 30 December, and has been marked in pencil ‘29/12/32’.

† Sic.

(With an envelope and a card.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
26 April 1933

My dear Gerald,

I enclose what will admit you to reserved places in the Senate-House until 4.55 on May 9. But I don’t much think you would be much interested, and as it is to be printed you would find reading it less boring, and I can give you a copy. I should not be able to see much of you, as I naturally have engagements.

Do not try to repay me anything at the end of the year. When that arrives, if you have any-thing over, it can be set off against what you will be wanting for next year. The loan is not causing me any present inconvenience.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 26 April. The card is inscribed as follows:

Trinity College, Cambridge

Please admit | Mr Gerald Jackson | to the Senate-House for the Leslie Stephen Lecture on May 9.

A. E. Housman
Member of the Senate.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
10 June 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am very glad to hear of your success in the examinations and of your nearness to success in the Iraq post. I hope you will have good weather and enjoy yourself with the Irish Guards. Your news about Rupert’s financial affairs is very vexatious.

I am back here after about three weeks† absence with relations in Worcestershire and Somerset, where I had some pleasant motoring, but I am not well. In the hot weather in the beginning of June I spent a week in a nursing home, because the doctor said my heart was all over the place. It has behaved properly ever since, but I am told not to walk much in the heat, and that deprives me of the exercise on which I regularly depend, and makes me feel weak. On the other hand an oculist to whom I went today about new spectacles says that my eyes are very good.

I feel that I ought to apologise for answering your letter by return of post: it annoys me when people do it to me.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 10 June, and has been marked in pencil ‘10
June 1933’.

† Sic.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
13 Sept. 1933

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for sending me news of you, and I am glad you had such a pleasant holiday.

I have just returned from France, a good deal worse than I set out. I was attacked by a violent inflammation of the throat, which I believe is a form of influenza, and which leaves its victims very weak and exhausted; and the continuous hot weather was bad for me. I have many letters to answer so I do not write more.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 5 p.m. on 13 September.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
25 Sept. 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am very sorry to hear that you have been so ill as to spend a whole week in bed.

If you come to Cambridge I hope you will lunch with me, and also dine, if you are not obliged to leave before 10.10 p.m., when there is a train which gets you to King’s Cross at 11.24. I am very feeble both in body and mind.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

If you can’t stay to dinner, there is a train at 7.7 with restaurant car, getting to Liverpool Street at 8.26.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 25 September.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
22 Jan. 1934

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for your cheque for £25.0.0, though I would rather you had not sent it, as it gives me an uneasy feeling that you may be stinting yourself too much. This formidable term you will require extra strengthening.

It was very bad luck for all of you to get the influenza at Christmas.

When you ask “how many meals the 52 oysters represented” you betray some meanness of conception. They constituted the one meal of supper.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 6 p.m. on 22 January, and has been marked in pencil ‘22
Jan 1934’ and ‘£25 returned’.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
12 March 1935

My dear Gerald,

As to the point you want my advice on, I think it would be a pity to break off your medical education unless a really good offer in the mining world came along. I am glad that you are getting on satisfactorily and with enjoyment.

This last fortnight I have been rather worse than usual and the doctor has been sending me to bed for week-ends, and this odious weather makes me quite ready to go there. I therefore do not feel that I should ask you to stay here even for two nights, as I cannot be sure of being able to entertain you properly; but if, as you suggest, you came over for the day—including both lunch-eon and dinner I hope—I should be very much pleased to see you, unless some accident should intervene. I have given up the idea of going abroad in this next vacation, and expect to be here all the while.

Thank you for your news about your mother, who I hope is now quite well; and I hope that your ulcerated (a word I deciphered with great doubt and difficulty) throat is healed.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9.30 p.m. on 12 March.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
5 April 1935

My dear Gerald,

I lose no time in thanking you for your birthday present, which I have lost no time in sampling. It is very good, better than potted char; and you have probably started me on a road which will conduct me to the doom of Henry I.

I thought your walk in Wales very enterprising and judicious, and I am glad you were able to seize the good weather before it degenerated into this. My chief recent experience has been motoring sixty miles to a funeral on Wednesday, through country in many places white with hail.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 7.30 p.m. on 5 April.

(With an envelope.)

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The Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington Road, Cambridge
25 June 1935

My dear Gerald,

I have been in here more than a week and my correspondence is in arrears, but I will try to write soon. The trouble is Cheyne-Stokes breathing, which you know all about, and I am getting quiet nights by drugs. The doctor is very complimentary to my pulse, and I expect to go away on Friday.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. Silver Jubilee stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 25 June. The letter is written in pencil, but the direction on the envelope is in ink.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
27 Sept. 1935

My dear Gerald,

At the end of last year I found that my balance at the bank was £20 more than it was at the end of the year before; so do not fret yourself with the idea that I am being reduced to poverty. It would be a great pity to break off your course without necessity. Only do not work yourself too hard.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Marked in pencil:] 27.9.35