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Advice on letter writing: GPO London

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. - Asks if he has come across fire-walking traditions, for a talk to the Folklore Society on points where their work intersects with the 'Psychical people'.

About an [insurance?] policy.

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.

Albany - DDB agrees to aid EE in supplying information to WW on education in the city of New York: common schools have no direct or systematic religious teaching - they have no sect whose tenets are recognised by law. He has read WW's book on Morality [The Elements of Morality Including Polity, 2 vols., 1845] with 'infinite satisfaction' and does not 'doubt that it is doing great good in this country': DDB has been lecturing on WW's views 'in regard to Polity, and the relation of the state to moral culture and progress. I want our people to learn that there is something more in the state than has originated in their wisdom or been created by their power'. WW is clearly aware that his idea of education and the relations of church and state would not fit the US: 'the religious education of the people is pretty successfully cared for with us, though the state has so little to do with the matter directly'.

Engineering Works, Willesden. - Telling 'Lillie' Dell that her father spoke to him that morning and gave his blessing to their wish to be married.