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Backsettown Farmstead, Henfield, Sussex.—Thanks him for accepting her invitation (to attend the unveiling of a plaque to Elizabeth Robins), and discusses possible dates. She hopes Mollie Trevelyan and Sybil Thorndike will come.

Flat No. 303, Duncan House, Dolphin Square, S.W.1.—Gives news of Pethick-Lawrence’s niece (Ellen Davies), whom he met in New Zealand (cf. 2/295).

Barn Elm. The printer has had the copy for the Letter to the Pope which is to appear in the Register and is to be made into a little book, the printer is to send copies of each page to John Akerman who will forward them to the bookbinder, Cobbett requires wafers, thin writing paper and a thermometer, looking to sell mangle wurzel.

(Mechanical copy of a typed original.)

87 Clement’s Inn, W.C.—At today’s meeting they discussed the coercive measures introduced in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and it was agreed to form an unofficial committee to receive information from South Africa and act in concert with the Dutch.

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87 Clement’s Inn, W.C.

Beloved

Just going to bed, I see the stars are out & I think that will mean my Mumsey will sleep well. I kiss this at the foot {1}.

Courtney, Lehman†, Gooch & F Harrison and others were at the Mackarnesses this afternoon. One of the things Fischer talked about was the Peace Reservation Act which is a kind of stringent coercion Act enforced by Milner in the Transvaal & O R C {2} and prevents a man from saying or writing anything of which the Govt does not approve. It appears there is not much to be done but to protest.

The principal thing we discussed was the possibility of forming some sort of unofficial Committee which might receive information from S. Africa with a view to using it. How far could it act in concert with the Dutch in the T & O R C & with the Dutch Party in Cape C. We formed ourselves into a kind of unofficial body, which I regard more as as† bureau of information than anything else.

Mrs Mackarness was interested in J R M {4}, & I suggested they shd come to dine here with them some day, which she thought very pleasant. So I suggest Tuesday fortnight. Mumsey will be fit as anything by then; & I don’t think we have engagement. I have fixed up provisionally with the Ms {3} and unless there is anything to the contrary, will you send off enclosed.

Some time later I should like to ask the Bunces {5}.

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{1} There is a cross at the foot of the page.

{2} Orange River Colony.

{3} Mackarnesses.

{4} James Ramsay MacDonald.

{5} Reading uncertain.

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Feldhausen, near Wynberg - No information to give WW on tides. Problem with taking observations: 'At Cape Town it was clearly impracticable to do anything - In bad weather the jetty is too much exposed and in fine nobody could be got who could be depended on to keep the register'. JH and [Thomas] Maclear have been waiting for the new self-registering apparatus to arrive [see JH to WW, 4 July 1835]. He has been working very hard to get the first six hours of his principal catalogues (the nebula and double stars) ready to send back to England in a reduced and arranged state: 'These 6 hours are by far the heaviest in the nebulae as both the Magellanic clouds come into them and I trust it will be found that my analysis of these extraordinarily complicated objects is so nearly complete that in all probability very few additional nebulae in either of them will hereafter be detected except with an instrument of superior optical power to the 20 feet'. The Duke of Northumberland has placed at his disposal a 'princely magnitude' to assist him in his astronomical work. JH has rediscovered the 6th Satellite of Saturn. It will not be possible to see the 7th Satellite with the 20ft reflector: 'He is destined for the Great Russian Refractor (whenever it shall exist)'. JH has got a beautiful series of sun spots and devised a theory of them.

Encloses correspondence with Mrs Gordon Phillips (of the Cecil Houses Finance Committee). Is dissatisfied with her behaviour and that of Mrs Chesterton. Wishes to discuss the matter with him.

Weston-super-Mare.—Thanks him for letting her see Mark’s letter, and reflects on what she has learnt recently about Fred’s love for her. Refers to some of her activities at Weston, and advises the expected time of her return to London.

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Weston-S-Mare
Dec. 3. 1924

Dearest.

So many thanks for your letter, and also for letting me see Mark’s beautiful letter to you. Every word of it is intelligible & illuminated to me, because Mark & I have been going through the same country & have been learning a new language—and you are one of those who can be utterly trusted. We need not fear that unawakenedness that unconsciously turns & rends the giver of divine things.

In fact, dearest, you are shining and our eyes are opened. You have no idea how much I have been learning lately, of myself, of you & others, & of you especially. I know now that your great redeeming Love to me has been my defence & safety which I have been living in this life of time & space. You said to me once—“I have fought for you”, and I realize now how tremendously true it is. You have been the Divine Saviour of my soul & mind in this life. And now I love you because you first loved me. All this goes on in the world beneath the world of appearances & daily life which we live so happily together. When our eyes are open, we can enter heaven while in the body as Blake did. But this can only be by continual forgiveness of sins—that is to say that a river of water must wash the shore of every moment’s life, washing out all sins (i.e. separations) as they arise—our own & those of our dear ones—which are the only sins that really matter as far as we are concerned!—Heaven is moment to moment forgiving one another our sins—or at least that is an essential condition of our life there.—Well darling—that is only a language—a new language that both Mark & I have been learning. It is not any new truth, & it is nothing that you do not already know & beautifully express in your own language & in your daily attitude to life.

I have had a perfect time here—enjoying every moment. The weather is lovely. We went for a most beautiful motor ride yesterday morning—then I went up to tea with Mother, while May kept an appointment, & we all had supper at St Huberts, & a more delightful family party I have never had. Nance said Angels were in the room, & so indeed it seemed. We were all very merry.

I arrive tomorrow at Paddington 2.15. So glad Campbells are coming on Thursday night. We will have a very nice party. Great love old darling & love from all.

Your own Patz

I have just read Mark’s letter again. It is a perfectly wonderful letter. Please keep it or give it to me to keep. Such letters if eventually published, would bring untold emancipation to many struggling in the toils of self-righteousness.

Hôtel du Golfe, La Guimorais, St Coulomb, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.—Discusses her plan to train as a wireless operator, and asks her to act as a sponsor. Shares family news.

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Hotel du Golfe | La Guimorais | St Coulomb | Ille-et-Villaine | France.
Sept 13. 1921.

Dearest Lady Conny,

I am writing to ask if you will very kindly do something for me.

I am to be admitted to the Wireless College at Colwyn Bay where I am going to train as a Wireless Operator and at the same time to study for my London Matric. I have already applied to the Principal and he has accepted me.

But each student is required to supply the following:—

(a) Certificate of birth

(b) Particulars filled up on enclosed form

(c) Letters from two persons of British parentage, and of standing, signifying that the applicant is the person described on the birth certificate—that the particulars on attached form are correct—and that the applicant and his† parents are of good character.

I am enclosing my birth certificate and the form referred to above which I have filled up—so that you can see all is in order. Both my father and mother are dead as I think you know.

There are two people I should like to have as sponsors for my entry into the wireless world. One is yourself and the other is Professor Bickerton (President of the Royal Astronomical Society) who was a good old supporter of ours in our good old fighting days and he has been more than encouraging to me in my new quest.

I should be therefore so glad, dear Lady Conny, if you would send me a letter which I can forward on to the Principal with the enclosed form and birth certificate.

I have decided after all not to go to Australia as things seem very unsettled out there. Also I find that before I can do anything in wireless it will be necessary for me to take a degree and I am working to this object. And if one is to take a degree in Science it is better to take it in this country of course. Colwyn Bay has an excellent and mild climate, and so one can work and study there without detriment to one’s health. My two good and generous sisters in New York are helping me financially for my first year’s training.

Women are not being trained as Wireless Operators and special facilities are being given to me because of my enthusiasm in the matter and my keenness to go ahead in the cause of scientific work. The Prime Minister has sent me a little note wishing me success, and if it had not been for this I doubt if I should have been accepted. So you can gather from this that I am helping to blaze another trail for women and I hope to prove worthy of all the confidence and faith that has been put in me. One thing I feel so strongly about in this affair is that one is never too old to start anything. It seems to have astonished quite a few people that I should wish to go in for scientific work at the age of 34 and begin studying for a degree in science now. But I feel just as I did when I began work in the Suffrage Movement, and one is as young as one feels—isn’t one?

I wonder how you are keeping. I saw the notice in the Press and the leading article about your dear mother’s birthday. {1} How devoted you must all be to her and how proud she must be of all of you. I do wish you could have met my mother. You would have loved her. She was a wonderful and good woman. Whenever any of us are in doubt or trouble we always feel her presence and influence near. In life she always specially watched over the weak one and the one needing help and she seems to do this still.

You will be pleased to hear that Annie’s little baby boy {2} is perfectly lovely and is so happy and good.

I am enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. I am staying at the above address for a little holiday—It is a little hotel in an out of way spot in Brittany, and one that has been visited by many Suffragettes.

With love & all good wishes

Ever yours,
Jessie Kenney.

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{1} Edith, Countess of Lytton, celebrated her eightieth birthday this year.

{2} Annie Kenney’s son Warwick.

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Royal Observatory Greenwich - Gives his comments regarding WW's paper on the history of optics and light in general [for his The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon their History?]: 'There is one fault in the general arrangement, which I do not see how to remove - namely, that the phenomena and explanations of fringes, gratings, &c, did precede in history and do precede in mental comprehension those relating to dipolarisation. But the things are very much interlaced all through'.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
11 May 1933

Dear Semple,

Thank you for your letter. I had no idea that you were there.

Yours sincerely
Serius Augurinus {1}.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 5.15 p.m. on 11 May.

{1} The allusion appears, at first sight, to be to one of several men of this name, all with the praenomen Gaius, who served as consul or as one of the duumviri quinquennales in the first century AD; but perhaps, in a modest reference to his own poetical achievements, Housman is referring to Sentius Augurinus, a minor poet commended by Pliny the Younger, who is conjectured to have been named Serius in an inscription. See The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1844), iv. 123.

(Carbon copy.)

Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.—Apologises for not replying earlier to his letter, which she received as she was going on vacation. The vacation followed ‘a gruelling 9 performances in 6 days’.

Backsettown Farmstead, Henfield, Sussex.—Discusses arrangements (in connection with the unveiling of a plaque to Elizabeth Robins; see 3/300). Leonard Woolf is coming.

King’s College, Cambridge.—Is sorry he was not in when Pethick-Lawrence called. Hopes to revisit America in May.

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King’s Coll., Camb.
27–3–49

Dear Pethick-Lawrence

I thought it so very kind of you to let me know that you were coming to Cambridge, and to call on me. Alas I was away, as you will have found. I hope to have better luck next time.

I hope that you are both well, and that your news is good. Mine is; I have been away doing some interesting work, and in May I am hoping to revisit America.

With all good wishes
Yours sincerely
E M Forster

[Added by Pethick-Lawrence in pencil:]
It looks as if I should miss him again on June 21.
24/6/49 Read me again.

India Office.—Thanks him for his good wishes (on his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the India Office).

Backsettown Farmstead, Henfield, Sussex.—Discusses travel arrangements (in connection with the unveiling of a plaque to Elizabeth Robins).

Parkhotel Kaiserhof, Frankfurt.—Encloses poems (6/292), in return for one from Pethick-Lawrence (his ‘Cosmic Hymn’?). Is delighted to have met him.

King’s College, Cambridge.—Sends good wishes (on Pethick-Lawrence’s marriage).

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King’s College, Cambridge

Thank you for sending me a card: this brings my kind remembrances and best wishes for your happiness.

E M Forster

Feb 18 1957

Flat No. 303, Duncan House, Dolphin Square, S.W.1.—Is delighted that Pethick-Lawrence has been appointed to the India Office. Praises the civil servants there and the Viceroy [Wavell].