Notes on Theocritus 14-18.
The Master's Lodge, St. John's College, Cambridge. - Thanks Rouse Ball for sending him the letters from Sylvester to Cayley; has 'only as yet just opened the parcel but it is clear that there is a good deal of matter in them'.
Pontefract. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton; mentions how much she was loved in Pontefract.
Title from caption. Photograph of men in an eight on the river. A later hand has identified the men in the boat: C. W. Ehrlich (cox), Thomas L. C. Gregory, Bertram F. Crosfield, W. B. Savory, Edward M. Winterbotham, Clement Dru Drury, Lord O'Hagan, Paul P. Calligas, Thomas L. Bennett.
46th St. Theater, New York - Is glad to hear that 'Five Finger Exercise' is still going well despite 'the invalid' and Juliet [Mills]'s absence; is glad he likes Peter Brook; is distressed to hear about Brian [?] showing him the letter about ['The Royal Hunt of the Sun']; he found the play discursive with too many characters and too slow in getting underway; opened ['The Ages of Man'] the night before, it has gotten rave reviews; had four days in Havana at Christmas; everyone talks of 'Five Finger Exercise', hopes to put it on there in September; sends his love.
Typescript, with emendations in Shaffer's hand.
. Most of the book has been left blank.
Two mounted photographs, signed J Palmer Clarke at lower right. One depicts Great Court from the roof of the Chapel looking across to the fountain, and the southwest corner showing the diggings, preparation, large piles of dirt, paving, and pipes. The other shows approximately 125 workmen gathered on the steps outside the Hall, with the screens passage open and two windows on the southeast corner of the Essex building visible behind the group.
Clarke, John Palmer (b. 1853), photographerRelief halftone, Cambridge Portrait Gallery No. 12 in the Supplement to The Gownsman
The GownsmanHull Literary & Philosophical Society, Royal Institution, Albion Street, Hull. - Writes as desired by the Council of the Society to ask Houghton if he might deliver the Opening Address of the Session in November; invites Houghton to be his guest on this visit. Signs himself as President and Sheriff of Hull.
9 Esplanade, Lowestoft - Sends detailed instructions to the use of a hanging desk to enable an invalid to read in bed, which he and Mrs Blakesley have devised for him.