Contains ms. notes for a course of thirteen lectures, paginated 1-20, followed by several unnumbered pages of examples.
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Notebook with black soft cover, labelled on first page 'List of Subscribers to Fund for providing a new Holy Communion Set for St. Peter's Church, Milford Haven (John Sime's father, John Alexander Sime, was curate there from 1924-1927).
Printed ticket for a 'Draw for a Pig' at the Johnston Fete, 1 Jul. 1926; [Pembrokeshire Telegraph named, as printer or provider of prize?].
WW has been trying to find RJ all around the country: 'I had trusted to revive many old and acquire many new ideas: and more especially just now when I have cleared away the obstacles that stood between me and the speculations about wh. we used to talk I had anticipated much edifying discourse upon the past[,] the present and the future'. WW wanted to talk to RJ about 'the Review wh. Rose [Hugh James Rose] says is again labouring into existence' - WW does not think they 'have strength for it' yet.
Incomplete letter.
Windsmill, Enfield, Middlesex: - Is late in acknowledging Onslow's letter of 30 Jun due to absence from home; 'much obliged' for the particulars Onslow has given of his work, and as Fletcher is 'specially interested in any researches bearing on the cancer problem' will be 'very glad' if he can assist in furthering Onslow's work. Asks if he may write to Professor Hopkins for further information, and for information about the apparatus Onslow requires and its likely cost.
Congratulations on election to Liverpool Infirmary, John Bickersteth’s continuing ill health, Edward Bickersteth needs to develop firmness before becoming a surgeon: Kirkby Lonsdale.
Congratulations to CM on his result in the Classical Tripos: Rugby.
Glasgow - Addressed to George Bogle of Daldoway, Esquire - Demanding supplies of hay, oats and straw for the Jacobite army 'under pain of military execution'.
Journal kept at Ellaston, Bombay [Mumbai], Poona [Pune] etc. With a number of transcribed poems and various dedications to his sister Mary.
Babington, Charles Roos (1806-1826), cavalry officerNews of the birth of Robert J. G. Mayor: St Margaret’s.
Copy dated 1856 on cover, but drawn up 22 Aug. 1853, by J. [?] F. Delmar, 7 Lincoln's Inn Fields. Indenture between John Broadhurst and Thomas Ambrose Shaw. Pencil annotations to heading alters it to 'Abstract of title of Lord Macaulay's Executors to Holly Lodge..'
(With an envelope.)
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Transcript
Trinity College.
21 Oct. 1925
Dear Mr Semple,
Perhaps you would let me have the translations by Saturday the 31st.
Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.
I. 5. 10: Transalpino—uisum
[I.] 11. 8: perge—desistant
[I. 11.] 10: par—geminatis
[I. 11.] 13: obiecta—cassauerimus
[I. 11.] 15: contionatoris mei
II. 2. 1: iam uer … porrigitur
[II. 2.] 2: concaua—compressus
[II. 2.] 3: nisi—uerere
[III. 3.] 7: tamquam—truncatum
[III.] 14. 2: non amplius—rideat
IV. 11. 3: hinc etiam—laudabilis
[IV.] 21. 2: ecce habes—existimabis
[IV.] 22. 3: itaque—opportunitas
V. 8. 2: nisi quod—appenso
[V.] 10. 4: quapropter—adhiberi
[V.] 13. 1: iam Clausetiam—insorduit
[V.] 15. 2: restat—mercedem
[V.] 19. 1: nutricis—impunitatem
[V.] 20. 4: praeterea—uenitur
[V. 20. 4]: namque erit—uideris
VI. 12. 6: illum dubia—complesti
VII. 1. 4: miraculo—naturam
[VII.] 12. 4: haec omnia—adiungi
[VII.] 14. 11: nostram quoque—exhorruit
*[VII.] 15. 1: sed et ille—possessio {1}
VIII[.] 6. 2: insuper—supergressus
[VIII. 6.] 8: quid multa—audiui
[VIII. 6.] 16: dein, quod—fortuitis
[VIII.] 8. 2: redde te patri—affectus
[VIII.] 9. 3: ago laboriosum—impetro
[VIII. 9.] 5: lines 48–51
[VIII.] 11. 9.
[VIII.] 12. 7: quid multa—epulones
[VIII.] 16. 3: si refutamur―simpliciter {2}
IX. 2. 1: iubetis―incipitur
[IX.] 9. 13: huic copulatum―philosophari
[IX. 9.] 14: curua ceruice―cute distenta
[IX.] 13. 1: crederem―fallere
[IX] 16. 3: de reliquo―munerabor
[IX. 16. 3]: lines 33–36.
[On the back of the letter are some pencil notes, presumably by Semple.]
[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | St John’s College
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The references in the postscript are to the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris, which are referred to by book, letter, and section. Elements of references repeated from the previous line are omitted in the MS, but they have been supplied above in square brackets. The colons in these references have also been supplied.
{1} The significance of the asterisk is unclear.
{2} Altered to ‘simplicitas’ in pencil.
A New York Times cutting from 23 August 1964 includes a congratulatory note signed by Nobel Laureate Payton Rous.
Includes attendance of meetings, travel grant applications, election as fellow; summary of Sir Anthony's publications dealing with most significant findings; letters of congratulations upon election, found in Part 2; meetings and visits; support for nominations of other fellows; annual contributions.