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Concerning the notebooks of Robert Burn.

Appeals to his knowledge of Lucretius in writing about the Dynamical Theory of Gases. Also asks, as Junior Moderator, if there are Trinity men who would be able to serve as a poet for Tripos day 7th April.

Photocopies and original newspaper cuttings. Includes part of the Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times dated 20 Feb. 2000 with an article by Peter Shaffer headed, "Mozart, Truth and the Demands of Drama."

Typescript with one correction in pencil.

Mixed manuscript, typescript and photocopy, much revised, with repeating pages and miscellaneous order. Emphasis appears to be on the end of the play, with scenes of the court, the theatre, the doctor. Very similar to draft at item 11.

Enjoyed working on the music for a revival of 'Yonadab' with him, and asks for a reference.

Three groups of emendations to the 'Yonadab' playscripts for the Oxford production, and one set of changes to the Penguin text.

Photograph of unidentified man with dead tiger, inscribed 'Presented to H. Babington Smith Esq., C.S.I, Private Secy. to H. E. the Viceroy and G[overnor] G[eneral] of India [late 1890s].

Album commemorating the visit of the Viceroy and Countess of Elgin to Gwalior, Nov. 1895, inscribed 'Madhaur Scindia, 1896'.

Attributes the 'very kind notice in the "Saturday Review"' of his translation of Dante's Purgaturio to Pollock's friendly pen; is glad Pollock found the 'error in the number of the keys'; sends a copy of the translation.

37 Queen's Grove, St. John's Wood, N.W.8. - Thanks Trevelyan for 'this year's delightful choice' of poems ["From the Shiffolds"]. Thinks "Pleasure" is 'a little masterpiece', while the Greek fragments are 'very fine and valuable'. Has lost Trevelyan's address, but hopes this reaches him.

For journey by train from Paris-St-Lazare to Le Havre.

Friends War Victims Relief Committee, A.P.O., S.5., B.E.F., France. - Thanks Julian his letter with the drawing; wonders whether it was of 'a donkey braying, or a Chinese imaginary animal bellowing'. Apologises for not managing to get a letter to Julian on his birthday; expects he is glad to be nine; wishes he himself could get a year younger instead of older on his next birthday. Has been for a short holiday to Nice, where it was not as warm as he had hoped; it took twenty-six hours by train to get there. Hopes to return to England around 20 March. Glad Julian likes school so much, and is now playing football; asks if he remembers them playing in front of the stable at home. Hears from Julian's mother that she had a nice visit to him last weekend.

Notes on the Wars of the Roses, including a family tree [from Trevelyan's school days?].
Opening [?] of prose narrative set in the British Museum Reading Room.
Extensive extract from prose narrative [Trevelyan's never completed novel?], describing the view from Meliance's window, his waking from a dream (with brief verse), seeing Helen/Orgeluse picking flowers and going downstairs intending to speak to her. Written on recto only, with additions and corrections on facing pages.

Loose inserts: 1 bifolium with "Modern Greek ballad", "Dirge", "From Theognis", "Dirge"; 1 sheet, "Before, I tire of loving thee, my love..."; 1 bifolium with translation of Catullus 81, "A lament", "Song", "Italian folk songs"; 1 bifolium, "The Mountain-brook", "Song", "The Thrush's Song"; 1 sheet, "There was a little monkey from monkey-land"; 1 foolscap bifolium with translation of Catullus 63 ("Attis"); 1 foolscap sheet, "Wishes", "Greek folk-song", "Satyr's Song (from Ariadne [i.e. "The Bride of Dionysus"])"; endpaper and back cover of a French Garnier Classics book, with verse in pencil on endpaper, "Sidelong/Downward a little leaning/bending thy dear head...".

Several blank pages in notebook, then more inserts: bifolium headed letter paper from The Green Farm, Timworth, Bury St. Edmunds [country home of Desmond and Molly MacCarthy] with draft verse in pencil; 1 sheet, ["Italian Folk Songs"]; 1 large sheet, "The Mulberry Tree Speaks"; 1 sheet, "What wert thou, happy dream?" [from Meliance narrative, see above]; 1 foolscap sheet, "Now now needs must I sing".

Several further blank pages, then more inserts: 1 sheet, "My love among all lovely things..", with musical notation on the back [since the poem is published in "The Bride of Dionysus... and other poems", perhaps the music is by Donald Tovey]; 1 bifolium, "Methought I had been wandering alone..."; 1 sheet, "When the children come at eve...", title, "The Mulberry Tree", added later in pencil; 1 sheet, "To yon thicket hind and hart go rarely.." ["The Thrush's Song"]; 1 sheet, "No now fain would I sing"; "Thou gaunt grey-bearded boatman" ["Charon"]; 1 sheet, "When dreaming of thy beauty by the sea..."; 1 sheet, "I ; thought that Love..."; 1 sheet, "What wert thou, happy dream". Further blank pages.

Inside covers and part of first page used for notes of appointments, Latin quotes [Propertius 4.9.45-46 etc]. Recto of first page has triangle of cut paper [from envelope?] glued on, with embossed lettering, 'Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey' [home of Sophie Weisse]; 'A Treatise on the origins of Christian Science by R. C. T.' is written below the lettering. Text of play on recto of folios, with additions and corrections on facing pages. Loose sheet of paper between folios 6 and 7 with further extract from "Sisyphus".

Translations of Virgil's "Aeneid" Book 6 and Homer's "Odyssey" book 9. Notes [of possible topics for autobiography] on first page, for example 'G[eorge] O[tto] T[revelyan] and Palgrave - Keats. G.O.T. and Churchill'.

'Sunlight and Song fill your heart and your home'.

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Asks him to lunch, if he has returned from Spain. Advises him to go to Holyhead (i.e. Penrhôs) if he wants to avoid the Coronation.

(Dated Wednesday. This is a reply to B1/10.)

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18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
Wednesday

My dear Mr Montagu

I wonder whether you have come back from Spain yet, or whether your cold proved too much for you. If you are back do come to lunch one day before you go off again, any-day† this week except Friday, Saturday would be best for me.

I am glad you liked the Rest Cure {1}.

I advise you to go to Holyhead next week if you do leave London to avoid the Coronation {2}, it was quite divine at Whitsuntide {3}, I have never been so happy.

Yrs
Venetia Stanley

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Black-edged paper.

{1} A novel by W. B. Maxwell, first published in 1910.

{2} The coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Mary on 22 June.

{3} Whit Sunday fell this year on 4 June.

† Sic.