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12 Seymour Street, Portman Square. - 'T. E. Page told me that your son had written a paper on the Plough...'

Trinity College. 'In connection with the Iynx passage...'

Illegible inscription on reverse.

Trinity College, Cambridge. - Re Cyril Mowbray Wells's international rugby matches.

25 Newton Road, Oxford. - 'I am much indebted to you for calling my attention to your article... to the goldsmiths Samuel Urlin, father and son'.

The Lodge, St. John's College, Cambridge. - 'Thank you... for your memoir of Gaselee...

Includes account, 31 Mar. 1940, of Brooke's appointment by his uncle as raja muda of Sarawak, his marriage, and his subsequent loss of title.

Move to Coppenhall: Coppenhall

Longmans, Green, & Co., 6 & 7 Clifford Street, London, W.1.—They cite a review of V. L. Griffith's Experiments in Education.

Largely drawn from Fitzgerald's letters, with dates.

2 Park Street - Could Mr Bancroft, the newly arrived American Minister, attend the celebrations surrounding the tercentenary of the foundation of Trinity College?

Stamp on back of H. Parker, Photographer, 26 Lloyd St, Greenheys. MS endorsement: 'Taken at Pisa from life | By Bartholini 1822| Byron he parted his hair in front'.

Explains that she heard from [James] Bryce that Nora would like to have part of Henry Sidgwick's correspondence with her father [Arthur John Patterson]. Reports that she has spoken to her mother, who will be happy for Nora to have the letter as soon as they get back to town, which will be in the early part of September.

10 Scrope Terrace (Cambridge).—Accepts an invitation, and cites a passage from the Persian poet Kháqání to illustrate the reference to a gourd in the book of Jonah.

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Transcript

10 Scrope Terrace
Oct. 29. 1884

My dear Aldis Wright,

Thank you for your kind invitation for next Saturday, which I shall have great pleasure in accepting.

I came on a passage in a poem of the Persian poet Kháqání (which I read while I was at Broadstairs in the vacation)—which may interest you as illustrating Jonah’s “gourd” qîqâyon {1}.

“If to spite the graceful planetree
The ricinus-shrub springs from the ground,
Those who are intelligently practical
Know the ricinus from the plane.
The one will extend its years of life to an hundred,
The other will not last more than three or four months.”

The Persian bîd-anjîr or “willow-fig” is explained in the Dictionaries as “the shrub Palma Christi”.

Yours sincerely
E. B. Cowell

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{1} Cf. Jonah iv. 6-10. ‘qiqayon’ is the word used for the plant in the original Hebrew.

(This proof, which is marked at the head, ‘Proof | Nov. 26’, contains Chapter 1 and the first page of Chapter 2. Book VII of this work was published in 1874.)

Photo by Keith Rose' stamped on back.