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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.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
31 March 1934

My dear Gerald,

I congratulate you on your success, which I know has been won by very hard work, though I had not much doubt that you would pull it off; and I am glad that you look forward with pleasure to your next step. I hope that when you come to the patients you will find that what you have been learning about their insides is all true.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. 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 1.15 p.m. on 1 April, and has been marked in pencil ‘31 March 1934’.

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Wednesday perhaps might suit me a trifle better than Thursday, but I shall be very glad to see you either day. Meals offer no difficulty at all.

A. E. H.

Trin. Coll. Camb.
16 March 1935

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

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A pre-paid 1d. postcard, postmarked at Cambridge at 12.15 p.m. on 16 March.

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I sent you a post-card on Saturday morning, which you do not seem to have received. I shall be very glad to see you on Wednesday. Let me know when to expect you. Priestley I believe has left Cambridge.

A. E. H.

18. March 1935

[Direction:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | 125 Queen’s Gate | S. W. 7

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A pre-paid 1d. postcard, postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 18 March.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
17 Aug. 1935

My dear Gerald,

I hardly know whether it is more satisfactory that you came out top in the Kenya competition or annoying that you were cheated of your reward. It is not the first time in the history of England and Africa that the Colonial Office has been set at nought by unfaithful servants.

I am rather better than I have been, and hope to be amused by my tour in France. I am going to Dauphiné and Savoy, and leave here on the 26th.

I hope that you will enjoy your ten days with the Irish Guards, and be refreshed by them after all your hard work.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

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

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. Silver Jubilee stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 8 p.m. on 17 August.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
5 Dec. 1935

My dear Gerald,

I am two letters in your debt, and I do not quite know at what point your knowledge of my history breaks off. I am now in ground-floor rooms, B 2 Great Court, which are exceedingly comfortable, and the bathroom, which the College has equipped at its own expense, strikes the beholder dumb with admiration. I have no separate dining-room, but the study is larger than the old one, and so is the bedroom. The rooms are rather dark, and in hot weather there is likely to be some lack of air, as the wistaria interferes with opening the windows wide. The situation is very convenient for Hall, and I have a lecture room in the diagonally opposite corner of the court. My walking is weak and slow, and for getting to sleep I am using diminishing doses of a bromide, supplemented with champagne; but I still wake too early in the morning and pass a disagreeable hour or two. The clock does not annoy me at all.

I am glad to hear of your progress, and will hope for your success in the great examination. If you fail this time I shall nevertheless be sure that you have done your best. I must tell you again not to worry yourself about the expense, which I can quite well support; and I do not want you to go taking some geological post which is not good enough. As your mind runs so much on Fortnum & Mason perhaps you might send me a smoked ox tongue. Space here is rather cramped, and keeping potted fish cool might not be easy.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

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

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 11.30 p.m. on 5 December.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
31 Jan. 1936

My dear Gerald,

I ought to have thanked you before, and this letter will hardly catch you before you start on your holiday; but, next to walking, nothing tires me so much as writing, and I tend to fight shy of it. The nurses went into ecstasies over the sweets, and over admiration of your taste, for I told them that I had left the choice to you. Harrod’s provender was also good. The doctor told me to-day that he is not coming again for a week.

I had a letter the other day from Rupert, who seems to be profiting by the retirement of some competitors. I hope that you will enjoy your holiday and that it will freshen you up for the examination as desired.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | St Thomas’s Hospital | London S.E.1 [Redirected to:] Hotel Trantheim | Engleberg | Switzerland [At the top:] Please forward

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The envelope, which bears a 2½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 31 January, and has been marked in pencil, ‘Written 3 months before his death on April 30th ’35’.

The numbered papers are a.96-7, a.35-40, a.62-95 (with a blank unnumbered leaf between a.64 and a.65), a.31-2, a.41-51 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.14, a.109-14, a.98-108, d.3-8, a.131-2 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), d.9-69 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), a.115-16, a.126-7, a.119-22, a.117-18, a.124 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.130, a.128-9, a.123 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.212-25, a.233-45 (a.235 appears to have been missed out by mistake), d.70 (a printed leaf, joined to three unnumbered printed leaves), a.2-7, a.9-12, a.8, a.13 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), and a.15.

The headings which occur among these papers include the following:

‘Lettre. | Aux Dames’ (a.96)

‘Lettre aux Dames’ (a.35)

‘Lettres des | Deux Philantropes’ (a.62)

‘Aux Savants | Sur la Perfectibilite de LEsprit humain’ (a.41)

‘Chapitre second | sur la perfectibilité indefinie’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘dixieme époque | des progrès futurs de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘aux Savans | Sur la perfectibilité de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘Sur la philosophie’ (a.109)

‘Mon opinion | ou | Esquisse | d'un rapport sur l'affaire générale’ (a.98)

‘Introduction | aux | Travaux Scientifiques | du | Dix-neuvieme Siécle’ (d.3)

‘Observations générales | sur la 1re classe | des travaux Scientifiques du 18e Siécle’ (a.131)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques du | 19eme Siecle’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques | du 19eme Siecle’ (d.9)

‘Premiere Partie | Livre premier | de l'univers’ (a.115)

‘Chapitre second | Considerations metaphysiques’ (a.128)

‘Chapitre troisieme | des taches du soleil’ (a.125)

‘Prospectus | d'un nouveau cours d'études Normales’ (a.212)

‘Physiques des Corps organisés | introduction’ (a.213)

‘Lettres | de | C.-H. Saint-Simon’ (printed) (d.70)

Diary from 10 Nov. 1843 to 25 Jan. [1844].