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Treasury Chambers.—Acknowledges the receipt of a photograph of Pethick-Lawrence (see 3/123), which will be duly framed and hung in the Conference Room.

Palma de Mallorca.

12 Montagu Square, W.1.—Invites him to dinner.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
27 Feb. 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am glad that you are not finding your new studies too dull or difficult, and glad too that you have a prospect of a healthy holiday in the summer. I am sorry that the Cambridge men at St Thomas’s are ‘very bisexual’, but perhaps that is only your handwriting. Your ‘Outline’ I am pleased to see in print {1}, though to me the geology of N’Changa remains obscure.

The Lent races are just over, in which Third Trinity was bumped by Fitzwilliam Hall, a disgrace unknown in history. Such things however do not affect my health, which is good now that I have got rid of a rather long cold.

No, I am not likely to be embarrassed by want of funds when taking my holidays.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 27 February.

{1} ‘Outline of the geological history of the N’Changa district, Northern Rhodesia’, published in the Geological Magazine, lxx (1933), 49–57.

Hotel Christina, Seville.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
28 March 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am glad to hear that you have got through your Part I and that old age has not yet destroyed your memory.

I shall be here all through the vacation, as they have got me to give the Leslie Stephen Lecture next term, and it is a great toil and trouble and leaves me no time for anything else. Otherwise I would have asked you to come here for a day or two.

The crocuses in the avenue, now over, have been more magnificent than ever before. The rival show at Queens’ is out of action, as they had to cut down the walnut in the middle of the bed.

The bronze Hermes in Whewell’s Court had his body painted black and his face yellow on the last night of term; but it took only a few hours to get the stuff off.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 28 March.

(Typed, with handwritten corrections.)

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Biography of Mrs. Pethick Lawrence.

Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence is well known all over the world as a feminist who played a leading part in the world wide Woman Suffrage Campaign before the war She is also known as an internationalist who during the four years of the great war brought all the influence she possesses as a public speaker upon the people of her own country and upon the people in America to work for a Peace by negotiation and reconciliation, rather than a Peace dictated by the victorious armies.

In the Autumn of 1914, a cable summoned her to New York to address a vast suffrage meeting at the Carnegie Hall. On that occasion she helped to inaugurate the campaign which two years later led to the political enfranchisement of the women of that State. As a result of her campaign the American section of the Women’s International League was formed at Washington in January 1915, with Jane Addams as its President, and the two women sailed with fifty American women delegates to take part in an International Conference of Women held at the Hague in April 1915.

At the Conference of the Women’s International League in Zurich in May 1919, she registered her vigorous protest against the terms of the Versailles Treaty which had been published a few hours before the meeting was held.

In June 1920, Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence represented her country in an International Peace meeting in the German Reichstag in Berlin. She also spoke in the Mozarteum Great Hall in Salzburg, in the Town Hall, Vienna and in other towns on the “Women’s International League and Constructive Peace”.

She has since visited America twice and has been once to South Africa where she took part in the celebrations that welcomed the granting of woman suffrage in South Africa, the last dominion in the British Commonwealth to enfranchise its women. Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence is President of the Women’s Freedom League and vice-President of the Women’s International League, British Section,

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‘Revised March 1933’ has been written at the top of the first sheet, together with the file number ‘2069’.

(Carbon copy, incorporating the revisions in 7/13a.)

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Trin. Coll. Camb.
13 April 1933

Dear Semple,

I am glad you are trying again, and very willing to be a referee.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
26 April 1933

My dear Gerald,

I enclose what will admit you to reserved places in the Senate-House until 4.55 on May 9. But I don’t much think you would be much interested, and as it is to be printed you would find reading it less boring, and I can give you a copy. I should not be able to see much of you, as I naturally have engagements.

Do not try to repay me anything at the end of the year. When that arrives, if you have any-thing over, it can be set off against what you will be wanting for next year. The loan is not causing me any present inconvenience.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 26 April. The card is inscribed as follows:

Trinity College, Cambridge

Please admit | Mr Gerald Jackson | to the Senate-House for the Leslie Stephen Lecture on May 9.

A. E. Housman
Member of the Senate.

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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.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
27 May 1933

My dear Gerald,

As far as I can make out, I should say it would be more prudent to keep on at your medical course instead of taking up a job at geology which does not promise permanency. But of course you have to reckon with the possibility that I may die, in which case, as I told you, my assistance would come to an end.

I am not going to sign the lecture for anybody, as I do not regard it as one of my good works.

I am glad you are going to the Irish Guards again.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, half torn away, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 27 May.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
10 June 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am very glad to hear of your success in the examinations and of your nearness to success in the Iraq post. I hope you will have good weather and enjoy yourself with the Irish Guards. Your news about Rupert’s financial affairs is very vexatious.

I am back here after about three weeks† absence with relations in Worcestershire and Somerset, where I had some pleasant motoring, but I am not well. In the hot weather in the beginning of June I spent a week in a nursing home, because the doctor said my heart was all over the place. It has behaved properly ever since, but I am told not to walk much in the heat, and that deprives me of the exercise on which I regularly depend, and makes me feel weak. On the other hand an oculist to whom I went today about new spectacles says that my eyes are very good.

I feel that I ought to apologise for answering your letter by return of post: it annoys me when people do it to me.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 10 June, and has been marked in pencil ‘10
June 1933’.

† Sic.

H. V. Berry thinks the Labour Party should take the line suggested in the enclosed (a cutting from The Times). Hopes that Attlee will be able to see Roy Chowdhury before the meeting of the Select Committee (on Indian Constitutional Reform).

‘Do not you think the view of the Labour Party should be to support the enclosed policy? I have had a letter from H. V. Berry this morning highly commending it.’

(The enclosure was apparently a cutting referring to policies adopted by Roosevelt in America. See 1/68 and 5/50.)

House of Commons.—Attlee approves the line taken by Pethick-Lawrence (see 1/68) and has seen Roy Chowdhury.

3 Elm Court, Temple, E.C.4.—The course recommended by Pethick-Lawrence (see 5/46) would be the best one for the present capitalist Government to adopt if they want capitalism to stagger on as long as possible. But it is increasingly important for the Labour Party to be frankly socialist and not to think of returning to an era of expanding capitalism.

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3 Elm Court, Temple, E.C.4
July 14th 1933

Dear Pethick,

Thanks for your letter and the enclosure. {1} I think it probably sets out the best course to be adopted by the present capitalist Government if they want capitalism to stagger on as long as possible. My own view increasingly is that it should be given the ‘coup de grace’ at the earliest possible moment, and I do not think that a Socialist policy would really have any relation to what Roosevelt is doing in America except in a rather vague way in the earlier stages.

I think it is becoming increasingly important for the Labour Party to be quite frankly socialist and not to think of getting back to an era of expanding capitalism, which I am convinced is inherently impossible, and any way is undesirable.

Yours ever
Stafford

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{1} Apparently a cutting referring to policies adopted by Roosevelt in America.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
13 Sept. 1933

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for sending me news of you, and I am glad you had such a pleasant holiday.

I have just returned from France, a good deal worse than I set out. I was attacked by a violent inflammation of the throat, which I believe is a form of influenza, and which leaves its victims very weak and exhausted; and the continuous hot weather was bad for me. I have many letters to answer so I do not write more.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 5 p.m. on 13 September.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
25 Sept. 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am very sorry to hear that you have been so ill as to spend a whole week in bed.

If you come to Cambridge I hope you will lunch with me, and also dine, if you are not obliged to leave before 10.10 p.m., when there is a train which gets you to King’s Cross at 11.24. I am very feeble both in body and mind.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

If you can’t stay to dinner, there is a train at 7.7 with restaurant car, getting to Liverpool Street at 8.26.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 25 September.

Monk’s House, Rodmell, near Lewes, Sussex.—Thanks him for some pamphlets. Hopes that his wife’s meeting at Oxford was successful.

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Monk’s House, Rodmell, near Lewes, Sussex

Dear Mr. Pethick Lawrence,

It is very good of you to lend me the pamphlets. I am very ignorant of the subject,—shall {1} be much interested to read them. I hope your wife’s meeting at Oxford was successful.

With thanks

Yours sincerely
Virginia Woolf

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{1} Query whether the mark preceding this word was intended to represent an ampersand.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
14 Oct. 1933

My dear Gerald,

Your proposed transfer has advantages, as you describe them, but take care not to overwork yourself and cram in more than you can manage.

My strength comes back very slowly, if at all.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9.30 p.m. on 14 October.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
30 Nov. 1933

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for the news about you in your letter. For goodness sake do not go starving yourself or depriving yourself of proper amusement: if you do it will react on your work.

I am much better than I have been, but I do not yet walk briskly, and I am rather uncomfortable between waking up and breakfasting.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 3 p.m. on 30 November.

On headed notepaper for Newnham College, Cambridge. Typed, with autograph signature. Certifies that Ambrose has been a student of Newnham and a 'recognised research student of the University of Cambridge' since October 1932.

In 1932-1933 the courses she attended were 'Metaphysics' with Moore, 'Philosophy', and 'Philosophy for Mathematicians' with Wittgenstein, and 'Advanced Logic' with Braithwaite. This year she is continuing the first two of these, as well as attending courses on 'Types of Deductive Logic' with Braithwaite and 'Theory of Functions of a Real Variable' with Ingham. Professor Moore is the supervisor of Ambrose's research work.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2.—Pethick-Lawrence’s book This Gold Crisis is to be remaindered. Invites him to purchase copies at remainder price.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
26 Dec. 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am writing to thank you for your Christmas letter and to wish you a happy New Year. As this will soon be here, you will be in need of another cheque, which I will send when I know your address for certain. I am going on much the same. Remember me to your family if you are still among them.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | c/ Rupert Jackson Esq., M.D. | 97 Clifton Avenue | West Hartlepool

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 26 December, and has been marked in pencil ‘26/12/33’.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2.—Seventy-two copies of This Gold Crisis are being sent under separate cover.

(Signed as Sales Manager.)

Acknowledges the receipt of seventy-two copies of This Gold Crisis (see 1/360).