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The Mill House, Westcott, Dorking. - Discusses a passage of Thucydides, and Macaulay's criticisms of Lucan, which 'are among his very best... He never fails to choose out the best passages, and to laugh at the bad ones'. Robert 'has a great affection for Lucan, perhaps out of proportion to his merits', partly because after Catullus he was the first classical author he studied 'on my own adventure, and so, as it were, with passion', and partly because he read it at school with Bowen, who 'delighted in Lucan, and thought his cleverness and brilliance... apart from all others'.

The weather is 'desperately and oppressively hot'; he and Bessie are going to Borrowdale before coming to Wallington. Hopes 'London is not going to be visited for its sins like New York' [perhaps a reference to the stock market crash?]

Printed Gaisford Prize: Greek Theocritean Verse by John Arthur Godley, 1869, and Gaisford Prize, Greek Prose 1907, Herodotus at the Zoo by John Davidson Beazley, with Prolusiones Academicae, or Exercises which having obtained prizes in the University of Cambridge will be recited in the Senate-House on 11 June 1932.

Including referrals to charity schools.

43 Queen Anne Street. - Hopes Milnes will address the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind; existing institutions for the blind will not admit them above the age of 21; receipt of selling price for goods would benefit blind workmen; hopes to found institutions for teaching trades to the blind; decreased isolation will lead to greater self-respect.

From the [Morn?]ing Post.

94 Finborough Road, S.W. - Fryston fire; has obtained interview with Lord Salisbury's secretary; hopes for success when momentous European events are settled; seeks further letter to Committee of Council on Education.

Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope. - The new Governor Sir George Grey mentioned that Milnes had offered to do Knight a favour; has been seeking home leave on urgent private business for 18 months; scarcity of officers now relieved but the current General Officer [James Jackson] is 'the most implacable old gentleman that ever held command'; he will only allow home those who sell out; refused Knight's claim though it was supported by Grey and others; would Milnes urge it with Lord Hardinge. Jackson's nephew has enjoyed long periods of leave; believes he may have influenced his uncle adversely owing to jealousy of Knight's Indian service.

Thirlestane, Selkirk, N[orth] B[ritain]. - His son Mark seeks the office of Remembrancer for the City of London, which Mr Robartes [sic: Charles Henry Robarts] is to vacate after quarrelling with the authorities. 'Mr Robartes was so ingenuous as to desire to reform some of the Corporation. I am confident that Mark would not have been so simple. Solicits Houghton's influence in 'the Land of the Turtle' and asks him to advise Mark. Postscript: will remain at his current address until the Land Bill comes before the Lords.

Declines invitation for 17th; seeks Colonial appointment next spring 'in a temperate climate and where representative institutions prevail'; would not accept Ceylon under any circumstances.

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.

A folder which may originally have contained these notes is labelled in Skinner's hand 'Unedited Notes of Lectures by | Ludwig Wittgenstein | In Trinity College 1934 | The Notes were taken by Sydney George Francis Skinner and are | In his handwriting'. Some annotations in Wittgenstein's hand. Dates range from 'Wedn. Jan 17th' to 'Friday Feb. 23rd' [1934]; Gibson suggests that the section he transcribes under the title 'Visual Image in his Brain' dates from late 1933.

Typescript termly lists of Butler's tutees on Side D carrying brief notes in Butler's hand recording exeats and absences as well as occasional other notes as to permission granted, and addresses while travelling. There are lists for Michaelmas, Lent, and Easter terms for each academic year from 1929 to 1938, accompanied by lists of men admitted on Side D for Michaelmas 1934. The list for Michaelmas term 1936 was torn up by Butler apparently in error, as the pieces were found in one of his envelopes. A final list for Michaelmas 1938 is present, and a list of men admitted to Side D for 1939, as are lists of freshmen for 1938 and 1939, and a list of examination results at Trinity published in August 1938. The final lists do not carry notes by Butler.

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.—Sends a contribution to the Clifford fund. Discusses Tait's criticisms of Mayer.

(With an envelope.)

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Transcript

Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge
12 April 1876

Dear Pollock

I enclose £5 for the Clifford Fund. I hope that a slight displacement of his position on the earth’s surface may bring him into a milder air and one less stimulating than that at Gower Street, {1} so that as his oscillations between elliptic and hyperbolic space gradually subside he may find himself settling back again into that parabolic space wherein so many great and good men have been content to dwell, and may long enjoy the 3 treasures of the said great & good men as enumerated by S.T.C. {2}

The gospel according to Peter G. T. {3} although somewhat entêté {4} in the places where old controversies are fought over again is much sounder than it sounds when read aloud. The habit of lecturing generates a peculiar jargon which, when taken down by a reporter, looks strange. Tail† has always been proving that Mayer used inconclusive reasoning when he made an estimate of the dynamical equivalent of heat, {1} whereas Joule was on firm ground all along.

Hence Mayer should not have many marks for this piece of his work. But Mayer sent up ingenious answers to a great many questions propounded by nature, many wrong some right, but all clever. The strict examiner gives him but small credit for these but the historian of science must take account of the amount of good work by others which followed on the publication of Mayers† papers.

Now one man thinks most of the credit to be assigned to each individual as his property while another thinks most of the advance of science which is often associated by the noise even of fools, which directs wiser men to good diggings.

Yours truly
J Clerk Maxwell

[Direction on envelope:] F Pollock Esqre | 12 Bryanston Street | London W.

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The envelope was postmarked at Cambridge on 12 April 1876, and has been marked in pencil ‘Clerk Maxwell’.

{1} Comma supplied, in place of a full stop.

{2} Coleridge’s poem ‘Reproof’ contains the following lines:

Hath he not always treasures, always friends,
The great good man?—three treasures, love, and light,
And calm thoughts, regular as infant’s breath

{3} Peter Guthrie Tait.

{4} Obstinate (Fr.).

{5} This is probably the intended reading, but what is written resembles ‘Tail’.

† Sic.