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
Kirkaldy. Apologises for the letter sent the previous day
Delivered to the Literary Society, 15 Oct. 1881, enclosing 4 diagrams.
Congratulations on engagement.
Groningen. Discusses Mr Gordon and his advisers, ceremonials of the Dutch, subject of previous letter (undisclosed), request to be addressed without clerical titles "for I am a downright layman"
Correspondence of general political nature including letter of congratulations on maiden speech, letters re preservation of Thaxted windmill and future of Bishop's Stortford School, letter from Winston Churchill in reply to one from RAB sympathising with his illness, copy letter to Samuel Hoare re Indian Constitution
Mowden School - is distracted by radio news as he writes, thanks Christopher for letter, asks him not to write unless he has something important to say, describes ex-pupils now at Stowe, dislikes school life.
Programmes for races dated 30 Nov. 1961 and 3 Mar. 1966.
Comprising: settlement of fortune on marriage of Mary Ellen Parker and Edward Joseph Rose; appointment of trustees; release by Mary Ellen Rose of trust premises under marriage settlement.
18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Is unable to dine with him and meet Runciman. She enjoyed her stay at Vinters.
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Transcript
18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
July 7th 1909
Dear Mr Montagu
Its most nice of you to ask me to dine to meet Mr Runciman. Alas! Alack! I am afraid I cant as I am already dining out that evening. Its very sad and I wish very much I could chuck the other. Thank you so much.
I liked Vinters very much too. I must write a Collins to Olive for it.
Yours sincerely
Venetia Stanley
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Black-edged paper.
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.
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.
Reports that he made the enquiry of which they spoke 'from the [ ] of the Colonial Office respecting Government by Companies', and encloses his reply [not included], which reached him on the day on which he writes. Remarks it to be 'a curious thing that after [England] has, as many thought entirely shaken itself clear of this form of dual [Govt.] after the E[ast] I[ndia] Co. had been made an end of - that it should have slid back again into this old [favour] and sanctioned the establishment of so many new companies of the old plan.' Asks Sidgwick to return the 'Gazette copy of the [ ] [Borneo] [Charter]' and Meade's letter when he has finished with them. States that he has written to thank the latter. Asks Sidgwick to write a short article 'on the subject' for his Dictionary [of Political Economy]. Claims that when he has had to write on any special subject that 'requires care', he has never minded writing a short article on it first, 'as the doing so seems to help to clear one's mind'. Refers to his meeting with Sidgwick in Cambridge, and invites him and Mrs Sidgwick to visit himself and his wife during the summer.
On the timing of the press announcement of the award. With copy telegram from R. A. Butler to Sir Winston Churchill [Jan. 1954].