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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence is of Celtic stock. Her forbears lived in Cornwall, {1} the rock-bound peninsular to which in ancient days came the intrepid Phoenician mariners to mingle their blood with the aboriginal inhabitants. But her father, a Bristol merchant, made his house in Weston-super-mare and she herself responded to the call to come to London to be a “Sister” in the West London Mission under Hugh Price Hughes and Mark Guy Pearse.

It was not until she was nearly 40 years of age that the little band of militant suffragettes unfurled their banner of revolt and at Keir Hardie’s suggestion sought her help. In a spirit of dedication she yielded to the entreaties of Annie Kenney, {1} the mill girl who had come from Lancashire with £5 in her pocket “to rouse London”.

Her Cornish love of freedom, her passionate anger at injustice, her sense of shame at the humiliating status of women, her desire to befriend the weak and oppressed all combined to force this choice upon her. She consented to become the treasurer of the new movement. Instinctively she realised that she was setting her foot upon an uncharted path. But she certainly could not have forseen† into what strange and unconventional ways it would lead her.

In fact she was on seven separate occasions to see the inside of His Majesty’s prison. She was to go through the hunger strike and to suffer the painful indignity of forcible feeding. As a treasurer she was to raise a campaign fund of over a quarter of a million pounds and to become known as the most seductive beggar in London. In all this she was sustained by a strong inner sense of mission; and she was fortunate in having what was denied to many others of the suffragettes, {1} the active support of her men folk—her father, her husband and other relatives and friends.

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The file number ‘2069’ has been written at the top of the first sheet in pencil.

JH and Babbage are 'analysing outrageously'. Could WW ask [George] Peacock whether he is making progress in the printing of a work entitled 'A Supplement to Lacroix' which should have been published some months ago.

Savoy Hotel, Strand, London, W.C.2.—Thanks him for amplifying his views on taxation (see 3/10). It was a pleasure to meet him and his colleagues.

23: Salutation 'Tramontane' and signed 'Litherwit', characters from his Olympian Revels. Note perhaps written on scrap paper: geometrical diagram, equations, and doodled face also present.
24: Addressed to 'Sig[nor]' and Sig[nor]a Milnes, Via Tritone [Rome]', salutation 'Dear Trochee and Spondee' and signed 'Yours Anti-Hexameter'.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
29 Dec. 1932

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for your Christmas letter and card: I on my part wish you a happy New Year. Oscar also wrote. I suppose you all met at West Hartlepool. I had to eat three Christmas dinners in succession, but still survive.

You must soon be letting me know how much you calculate you will want for 1933. Do not cut it down too low as I do not want you to live with no margin.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq | Medical School | St Thomas’s Hospital | S. E. 1 [Redirected to:] 97 Clifton Avenue, West Hartlepool | c/o† Durham.

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 1.45 p.m. on 30 December and at London at 1.45 p.m. on 30 December, and has been marked in pencil ‘29/12/32’.

† Sic.

Royal Observatory Greenwich - Proposes to visit Cambridge on 10 November.

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Kensington. Plan to lease [paper] mill in place of Mr Rowland, the plant is included in the lease, has ten tons of raw material

Arthur’s Seat Hotel, Sea Point (Cape Town).

(Dorking.)—Sends his love.

Lyme Regis.—Will visit her when they return from Vancouver. Discusses aspects of the prosecution costs and the cases in the County Court and the High Court, and suggests points for inclusion in Votes for Women.

Has settled his disagreement with Mrs Phillips and Mrs Chesterton, and has discovered the precise nature of Curry’s dealings with regard to certain stocks.

Slough - Thanks WW for a copy of his book [The History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time, 3 vols., 1837]. Although JH has only perused vol. 1, he has been struck by two things: 1/. The view that Aristotelian Philosophy has established induction in the wrong direction: 'raising it in the casual and vulgar use of words instead of phenomena': 2/. The idea of art being the parent of science. JH thinks WW undervalues 'the direct influence of science in improving some processes and originating others...If necessity and luxury have been the parents of art - science has been its wet nurse'. JH is impressed with WW's claim that the threads to truth are in the framing, trying and rejecting of an hypothesis (as discussed in WW's intellectual character of Kepler). The new gage at Simon's Bay broke but has now been repaired. JH has reduced and arranged 654 nebulae and 475 double stars, and observed several revolutions of the 6th Satellite of Saturn - the only other person to have seen it was his father.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
12 Aug. 1935

Dear Semple,

You are heartily welcome to use my name as a reference in applying for the Hildred Carlile Chair, and I hope you may succeed.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | Dornie | Barnhorn Road | Bexhill-on-Sea

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. Silver Jubilee stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 12.10 p.m. on 12 Aug. 1935.

Somerville College, Oxford.—Asks him to investigate the alleged maladministration of the Foundling Hospital, and sends correspondence on the subject sent to her by Miss Potter of the Caldecott Community.

Discusses travel arrangements (in connection with the unveiling of a plaque to Elizabeth Robins; see 3/289). Will invite Helen when she returns from Montreal.

(The cards refer to papers in ‘Box File I’ relating to a meeting held on 10 Nov. 1930 at which Pethick-Lawrence addressed Labour Party members on the subject of ‘The Labour Party and Finance’, but these papers have not been found.)

Somerville College, Oxford.—Thanks him for his note (see 1/309). Will instigate an inquiry on the lines he suggests.