Death of Mr Stephenson
Met with an old friend who had lived in a darkened room for many years after a blow to the head
Including bills & references to Richard Monckton Milnes’s personal collections of books and MSS (except erotica, for which see DF/2).
God's destruction of man, wishes to sell his estate in Essex, description of estate, William Henry Mayor in Bermuda, Tom Mayor: Shrewsbury
Offer of the living of Shawbury, a small living with a very good house: Hawkstone
On books recommended for reading in relation to medieval ethics, including Gass' Geschichte der Christlichen Ethik, a volume of lectures by Neander, and Bettmann's Geschichte der Christichen Seite. Gives opinion as to the merits of each. Recommends especially Histoire des auteurs ecclesiastiques in 22 vols. by Ceillier, and 'the new edition' of Havreau. Mentions also Winter's book on the Ethics of the School of Alexandria and Jourdain's book on St Thomas. In relation to Hartmann's Phenomenology, claims it to be 'rude and spare' in the treatment of medieval theory, and comments that Sidgwick's 'enemy' Guyau 'knows nothing about it.' Mentions that his inability to verify the titles of his suggestions is due to the fact that he is ill in bed at the time of writing
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'.
Slough - WW and George Peacock have 'absolutely turned his [Babbage] brain by your inflammatory conversation'. Babbage has been 'running analysis mad' and so has JH: 'I really have read and written more in the last fortnight than ever I did in twice the time in any other part of my life and I advise you to go and do likewise'. 'The distress of the poor and the pressure of the times forms the subject of conversation here'.
Correspondence re research, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1957.
Two drawings, "Ye crowning of ye Jarl Harold" showing Harold's coronation as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, and an illuminated manuscript page of the beginning of the Ten Commandments. Accompanied by an envelope which identifies these as illuminations done in childhood.
These copies came to Gerald Symons on the death of his uncle Noel V. H. Symons; the location of the originals is not known. Letters written to Herbert Housman's step-mother Lucy, and sister Kate. Numbered 7-31 (including both 14 and 14a, 16 missing); these numbers appear to be those written by Herbert Housman on his envelopes, see Add. MS a 697/6/3.
(On the sheet used as a wrapper is a list of ‘Arrangements suggested by the members of the Bachelor’s Table [in the Hall at Trinity College] for regulating the introduction of Guests’, also in Clifford’s hand.)
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Transcript
1. The club shall be called the republican club.
2. Republicanism shall be taken to mean hostility to the hereditary principle as exemplified in monarchical and aristocratic institutions and to all social and political privileges depending upon difference of sex.
3. The profession of republican opinions shall be the only qualification for membership.
4. The club shall meet at dinner at 7 on three Wednesdays in the October and Lent terms, and on one in the May term.
Resolved The first dinner shall be held on Wednesday 23 Nov 1870.
5. At the beginning of every Oct Term a secretary shall be elected by ballot.
6. The sec. shall give at least 4 days notice of the place of the next dinner.
7. Each member shall be required to inform the secretary 2 days before the dinner whether he intends to be present. If he neglect to give notice of his intentions he shall be fined 5/-.
8. The secretary shall have the power of giving notice of subjects for discussion after the dinner. The discussion shall be carried on in a conversational manner, and must refer to some social or political subject.
9. Smoking shall be allowed after 10.
10. The secretary shall have the power at the request of three members, to invite a stranger sympathising with the objects of the club to the dinner.
11. No undergraduate shall be admitted to the club either as a member or as a stranger.
12. The club shall consist of [blank] original members. Candidates hereafter proposed at one meeting of the club shall be ballotted for at the next, and to be elected must be voted for by three-fourths of those present. The secretary shall give notice of the names of candidates for election.
13. Each member shall pay an annual subsc. of 5/–.
14. Any proposed alteration of the rules shall be given notice of at the previous meeting, to be carried must be voted for by a majority of the club.
Original Members {1}
Prof. Fawcett
H. Jackson
C H Pearson
G R Crotch
P T Main
W K Clifford—secretary
John Hatcher Moulton
[Written on the back of the wrapper:]
Arrangements suggested by the members of the Bachelors’ Table for regulating the introduction of Guests.
1. Every bachelor desirous of introducing a guest shall give notice to the Senior bachelor not later than at hall the day before.
2. The senior bachelor shall admit, according to priority of application, so many guests as, upon the testimony of the hall butler, there shall be room for.
3. The cook’s and combination butlers† account for the dinner of each guest shall be charged to the bachelor introducing him.
[Manicule.] It is proposed that the charge from the table for each guest be 2/6 on ordinary days and 3/ on feast days; notice of these being given by the senior bachelor as at present.
4. No members of Trinity College shall be introduced as Guests.
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The wrapper is docketed ‘WKC | Dft rules | Cambridge | Republican Club | (1870) | &c’.
{1} The names of Jackson and Pearson are each followed by a black mark. Moulton’s name was added in a different hand.
† Sic.
Sent to Milnes at Casa Ricasoli, S[ancta] Trinità, Florence, 'kindly conveyed by Honble Mr Noel'. -
Folder endorsed 'India General': 2 copies of Attock-on-the-Indus by George Adam Smith, with RAB's first letter to his grandmother, Mary Butler; scale drawing of elevation of mantle clock; programme of Lord and Lady Irwin's visit to Nagpur, 1926; essay on Attock by RAB; 2 silhouette caricatures of Butler family in Central Provinces; printed and typescript reports of 1931 Round Table Conference and Committees; speech notes; various letters and papers on Indian policy including report of meeting with W.S. Morrison, letters from Samuel and Maud Hoare, correspondence with Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, congratulations on House of Commons speech of 29 March 1933 and on leaving India Office, condolences on death of Sir Harcourt Butler in March 1939
Photographs of Paul Scofield, Simon Callow, Felicity Kendal, Andrew Cruickshank, Basil Henson, and Nicholas Selby.