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.
WW has been here [the Athenaeum Club] about a week: 'My purpose for the last few days has been and is to appear in a visible form at Brasted on Saturday next when I shall be glad to find you rejoicing and to rejoice with you'.
Four fixture lists, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1965-1966, 1966-1967.
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.
Visit to John Cooper at Acton, met Mary Barnett, Mary Burton and Martha Hassall, visit to the Boys School, visit to Dorfold: Coppenhall
Custom House, (Yarmouth).—Accepts the offer of a plate for his forthcoming work (The Picture of Yarmouth).
(Dated Saturday. Full date supplied by Turner.)
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Mr John Preston’s Compliments to Mr Turner, and will most gladly avail himself of his obliging offer of a Plate, which would doubtless stamp an additional Value on his Work {1} especially to such few friends as he is desirous of affording this extra Plate to, and therefore feels particularly favored by his very friendly and polite Offer.
Custom ho.
Saturdy Morng
[Superscription:] D Turner Esqr | Banker | Yarm’ {2}
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Dawson Turner has added after the date at the foot, ‘—4 Decr 1819.’
{1} Preston’s The Picture of Yarmouth, published this year.
{2} The mark or letter after ‘m’ is indistinct.
The Orchard, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge - assures Russell their friendship will not be affected by his time in prison.
Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - 'I have today received Beazley's Gems of Lewes House...'
Concerning the Julius Charles Hare bust.
(On the front of the menu is a photograph of the Great Gate at Trinity. The signatures include those of a number of Fellows of the College besides Housman, including F. A. Simpson, R. St John Parry, Henry Jackson, V. H. Stanton, W. C. Dampier Whetham, Sedley Taylor, R. Vere Laurence, J. Ellis McTaggart, H. McLeod Innes, Gaillard Lapsley, F. R. Tennant, and F. G. Hopkins.)
(With an envelope.)
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Trinity College | Cambridge
5 Feb. 1930
My dear Gerald,
This is a belated answer to your letter to me at Christmas, which I hope you enjoyed at Rupert’s. They tell me that it was very difficult to get you to leave your work even to go and see your family, so I don’t know whether I can induce you to come here some time from Saturday to Monday. So far as I can see ahead, any date would suit me; but during term, that is down to the middle of March, it would be necessary for me to know some time beforehand, as I might not be able to get you a bed in College.
I hope the arrangements which you were trying to make about the D. Sc. have turned out successfully.
Your bad language about the English climate is really rather ungrateful, for it appears from statistics that last December was the sunniest within human memory.
I had plenty to eat and drink at Christmas, and consequently am quite well, as I hope you are.
Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.
[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | 85 Oakley Street | Chelsea | London S. W. 3.
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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 5 February, and has been marked in pencil
‘5 feb 1930’.
Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Dated 10 March 1911 - Thanks him for ['The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings']; writes of her visit to 'Tiney' [Christina McCall Frazer] and found her better than she expected, hopes the doctors have it wrong, is glad she doesn't know of their suspicions.
Trinity College Cambridge. - Received Malcolm's last letter from Brooklyn, if it had arrived earlier it would have made getting in contact easier; would have liked to have seen Malcolm off at the station; would liked to be called by his first name in the future.
27 Pelham Crescent, S. W. Dated May, 1909 - Thanks him for his kind words about the Introduction [to his Tacitus' Annals XI-XVI'?]; doesn't wonder at Frazer's anger at being accused of conclusions in 'Psyche's Task' that he has not drawn.