Ship becalmed, crossing-the-line ceremony
Application to be appointed Civil and session Judge.
Fragment: description of the wedding of Alexandria Jessie Grote and Joseph Bickersteth Mayor
Reasons for being unsure as to whether to enter the Church: GPO, London
Henrietta’s new situation at Acton: Kirkby Lonsdale
Death of Mr Stephenson
Approves of Dr Johnson's work with the poor: Wilmot Street.
Full Title, 'Changes in the Relative Wages of Miners, Textile Workers, Iron and Steel Workers, Agricultural Labourers etc., Domestic Servants, and the Extent to Which These Changes are due to Variations in the Quality of the Work and the Faculties Required in the Several Groups'.
The Economic Situation of Austria: report presented to the Council of the League of Nations by Walter Layton and Charles Rist.
Published as Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review.
Contains critical annotations by Ginsburg, and includes four photographs of the original manuscript pasted on to preliminary pages.
The notices concern graces offered to the University of Cambridge Senate, as well as notices to members of the university. Subjects include proposed alterations in the Questionists' examination, student limits on accounts with vintners and victuallers, summaries of receipts and payments by the University for the years ending Nov. 1847, 1848, and 1850, a programme of the Professors' lectures for 1850-1851, and an announcement of the subject of the Norris Prize.
(Newton Abbot.)—Thanks him for clarifying a point relating to the Housman family. Will ask Gilbert Turner to send him the letters.
(Place of writing not indicated. Postmarked at Newton Abbot.)
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From E.M. April 5th, 1975.
Thanks for yours of the 3rd, and for clearing up the Housman family mystery; I had no idea there was another daughter, {1} as RR {2} never mentioned her, but only Clemence, who lived with LH {3} at Street.
I don’t know whether Gilbert Turner is back from France yet, but am writing him this weekend to send the letters to you, and I am sure he will. You will then have to cope with his awful address to thank him!
Yours sincerely,
Ethel Mannin
[Direction:] J. Hunt, Esq., | Ebury House | Romsley | Halesowen | Worcestershire
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Postmarked ‘NEWTON ABBOT | 6 APR | 1975’. Typed, except the signature and a few corrections.
{1} The reference is to Katharine Symons, née Housman.
{2} Reginald Reynolds, Ethel Mannin’s second husband.
{3} Laurence Housman.
(With a blank sheet. The list in fact includes only one entry.)
Letters date from 21 Jul. 1817 to 17 Feb 1818; each is assigned a number, from 2nd to 19th. Written to his mother, brother Edward, father, and sisters Charlotte and Mary. They cover his journey from 'the Dutch barge from Bruges to Ghent' to Naples, via Germany and Switzerland.
Unclear when transcripts were made, but volume appears to date from 19th cent. Pencil notes on the back of the flyleaf and first (unnumbered) page by May Elliott, wife of Frank Dumbell Elliott (grandson of Henry Venn Elliott), record context, point to some letters of interests, and note that 'His letters from the Holy Land etc have been given to salvage in the big salvage drive for the country in Nov. 1941. These others are more interesting & maybe of some further interest still, in a world where so much has been destroyed. Nov. 16 1941'.
A thread around the spine shows where, at p. 171 a letter from Hon. C[harles] Shore, Naples, Jan. 2 1818, once was; this is no longer present. It is mentioned in a contemporary note on the back of the front flyleaf; there are also a couple more original index items on the first, unnumbered, page.
Trinity College, Cambridge. - Goldstein's paper for the CPS [Cambridge University Physics Society] has been sent to Hardy by Hodge, and Hardy 'inevitably began playing about with the integrals'. Has no criticisms of Goldstein's 'way of dealing with them - it is straightforward and effective', but 'the following formal connections' may be of interest to him. Extensive mathematical notation and discussion follows, and the end of which Hardy concludes 'So your way of attacking the integral seems, in practise at any rate, much better than mine'. In a postscript he adds 'Some of your formulae set nasty problems for the printers', and suggests some changes.
In pencil; written on the back of what seem to be proof sheets for a mathematical paper by Hardy. Envelope addressed to Goldstein as 'Dr S. Goldstein, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex' and postmarked 'Cambridge 5 15 PM 1 Feb 1944'.
Headed mourning stationery, 'Springfield, Cambridge'. - Returns one of the letters she had retained [now Add. MS a/716/2]. Thanks him for his 'kind and considerate reception of the book' [her Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb...], and for his corrections; asks him to send her any other errors he sees. The Pitt [Cambridge University] Press expect that they will have to reprint before long. A few slight errors 'cannot easily be changed' and will be left in place unless reviews draw attention to them. Discussion of a mistake involving Henry Cecil Raikes and Sir George Stokes.
Postscript; wishes there 'could be a gossippy review somewhere with copious quotations'; afraid that the 'high level of the Times' delightful Review' [Times Literary Supplement, anonymous but by J. R. Thursfield, 10 Oct. 1907] may give the impression that the book is not for the general reader.
On embossed notepaper for Emmanuel College, Cambridge. - Saw a good deal of Brown during his seven years at Trinity; came into 'closer contact with the members of the kitchen staff one summer when I coached a winning crew of theirs for the Town regatta [and] was able to judge of several of them in their ordinary life as well as in their work'; Brown did not then row in the boat, but Blenkin was 'struck by the keen interest which he took in the college generally'. Thinks Brown would 'prove a thoroughly efficient and trustworthy servant' if successful in his application to become college shoeblack.
Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W.—Quotes from Duff’s English Provincial Painters, in illustration of a phrase in Nashe.
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Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W.
29 Jan 12
Dear McKerrow
Concerning tittle tittle est amen {1} cf. “The signatures of this book are curious, for the printer, having come to the end of his first alphabet, continued with contractions and then signed two more sheets one with ‘est’ the other with ‘amen’.” Gordon Duff, Eng. Prov. Printers, p. 37. {2} Of course this only shows that est was commonly regarded as part of the criss cross row. I imagine that it must have originally been one of the contractions (first ÷ later ē) & that when this grew obsolete the word est still retained its place.
Yrs
W.W.G.
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Formerly inserted between pp. 174 and 175 of McKerrow’s own copy of the Works of Nashe, vol. iv (Adv. c. 25. 75) , though the note it refers to is on a different page (see below).
{1} The reference is to the sentence beginning ‘I cannot explain what “tittle” means’ in the Works of Nashe, vol. iv, p. 205 (a note on a phrase in The Terrors of the Night, vol. i, p. 267, line 28). In the copy from which this letter was removed McKerrow has written in the margin at this point: ‘Cf also Duff. Eng. Prov. Printers p. 37 (W.W.G.)’. A similar phrase occurs in Have with You to Saffron-Walden (vol. iii, p. 45, line 36).
{2} E. Gordon Duff, The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557 (1912). The sentence is slightly misquoted.
Clarendon Press, Oxford.—An early copy of his book has been sent today. Asks where he would like his other free copies sent.
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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
23rd September 1927
Dear Sir,
We are sending to you to-day, under separate cover, an early copy of your book. {1}
You are entitled to twelve (12) free copies less the one early copy. If you care to send us the names and addresses of persons to whom you would like the remaining eleven (11) copies sent we should be pleased to despatch them from here with your compliments. If you should desire further copies you may purchase them at “author’s rates” (a discount of one-third off the published price).
Yours faithfully
G E Durham
R. B. McKerrow Esq.,
Enderley
Little Kingshill
Great Missenden
BUCKS
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Typed, except the signature. The reference ‘3249(Pub)/D’ is typed at the head after the printed words ‘Please quote’.
{1} Cf. Add. MS a. 457/2/2.
(Undated, but evidently issued in 1910.)
140 Carlingford Road, West Green, N.—Thanks him for the volumes of reprints, and refers to the probable source of a story in Greenes Newes.
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140 Carlingford Road, West Green, N.
5–X–1911.
Dear Mr McKerrow,
Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson sent me last night copies of your Greenes Newes and Weever’s Epigrams, and I thank you for them. I’ve been hunting about to find a repetition, with additions, of that story re Margery and her mother, told in Greenes Newes, p. 35, ll. 8–19, but have lost the trail for the moment, although it is not long since I read it. But it will come to me some time, and may prove to be of some use. I have an idea now it is to be found in “Apophthegms deliv-ered at severall times and upon severall occasions by K. James, King Charles, the Marquess of Worcester, Francis Lord Bacon, and Sir Thomas More,” a work published in 1658. I had to examine the work a little while ago for Mr Bullen, and found it to be a fraudulent and wretched piece of hack-work, with very little in it that was new. If you are going to publish any more of those old pamphlets, I hope you will let me have proofs, not because I wish to be mentioned in your reprints, but because I like to keep my hand in and my memory from getting rusty. I’d much rather you did not mention my name in your notes, for they are not worth such recognition; and it is a real pleasure for me to find that sometimes what I notice is of some little use.
Yours very truly
Charles Crawford
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Formerly inserted in McKerrow’s copy of his own edition of Greenes Newes both from Heauen and Hell, 1593 and Greenes Funeralls, 1594 (two texts in one volume) (1911) (Adv. c. 25. 82).
Photographs in sepia and in black and white. Views of Trinity include Great Court, the fountain, the Master's Lodge, King Edward's Gate, a view through gateways in Whewell's Court, and Nevile's Gate with Trinity Lane beyond. There is also a photograph of Trinity Lane running south towards the Old Schools with King's College Chapel behind, probably taken from V. H. Mottram's room in Staircase P, Great Court; it is this room which is likely shown in the single interior shot of the album. A photograph of the alcoves in the tribunal at the west wall of the Hall, each occupied by a figure in cap and gown, and a view of the river and the tower of St John's College chapel from North Paddock complete the images from Trinity; there is also a view labelled 'Coe Fen' which is mounted on two layers of card.
On headed notepaper for the Evening Star and South Wales Times, proprietor W. N. Johns. - Expressing sympathy on the death of C. W. King, whom he knew for many years and was very helpful in the preparation of a history on Newport, his native town. Wonders if anything from among King's possessions might be presented to the town for the Free LIbrary or Museum, to preserve the memory of 'one of Newport's most worthy sons'.
Addressed by Johns c/o Trinity College , Cambridge, forwarded on to Rev. H. L. Nelthropp at Upper Norwood.