Portion of photograph showing Eveleen Myers' head only. Labelled in '10 years old Eveleen Tennant afterwards Eveleen Myers Wife of F. W. H. Myers' [Eveleen Myers' handwriting?]. Photograph pasted to card with invitation: 'The Master of Trinity & Mrs Montagu Butler request the pleasure of Mrs Myers' Company at Dinner on Friday Aug. 19 at 7 o'clock. Trinity Lodge, Cambridge'. 'To meet Mr [Arthur?] Balfour' added by hand at the top.
Includes two letters written to Henry Montagu Butler, master of Trinity just before Thomson, and another letter written by Butler in 1917.
Magdalene College, Cambridge. - Sends his father's Fellowship examination papers; 'One of them seems to be the actual paper shown up, the others I suppose the rough copies? They seem to have been preserved by Mr Martin, & are annotated by him'; explains that Martin's niece [by marriage] has just sent them to him. Is just going to spend Christmas with his mother; wishes Butler and his family 'a happy Xmas & new year'.
Letters concerning classical studies and Trinity College business and social life, with a small group of printed material and testimonials. Some letters have explicatory notes by Florence Image, and almost 40 letters are from Henry Jackson. Other correspondents with several letters each are from or relating to: H. M. Butler (some to Florence Image), A. V. Verrall, W. Aldis Wright, W. H. Thompson, Duncan Crookes Tovey and other members of his family, J. G. Frazer, J. N. Dalton, and J. W. L. Glaisher; for other correspondents see names below. Some of the letters are by Image himself to various correspondents.
The printed items are: an unsigned printed letter opposing the education of choristers (a parody) dated 1877; a Greek text with an English translation, Fragmentum incerti ex Hēthikophysikolērois mocking the new Triposes, with a date of 20 Oct. 1848 written at the top of the first page ; comedic verses about Thomas Huxley in English and Greek; two notices about the non-placeting of the Grace for the Duke of York's degree in 1894; and a Latin poem about Como, a toy belonging to the Butler children James, Gordon, and Nevile, by Montagu Butler, dated April 1897. A small group of testimonials at the end of the collection were written in support of Image's candidacy to become Undermaster of the Upper School of Dulwich College in 1869.
Reconaissance exercise, exercise before General Plumer, one of his corporals an expert in Roman camps.
Menu for dinner signed by the Master H. M. Butler, T. P. Pemberton, H. F. Newall, H. F. Stewart, Charles Waldstein, Francis Jenkinson, Sedley Taylor, E. Seymer Thompson, F. C. Burkitt, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edward J. Dent, Alan Gray, Charles Wood, Karl Breul, R. D. Archer-Hind, Oscar Browning, [G. H. Orpen?], and J. E. Nixon.
Letter from O. M. Dalton to [Henry] Mayhew [both of the British Museum]; letter from Mayhew to Canon Musgrave (with envelope); three letters from Canon Musgrave to the Master of Trinity [Henry Montagu Butler]; letter from Butler to the Librarian [Robert Sinker].
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge.—Encloses six letters (2–7) written by Lord Byron to Henry Drury, which have been bequeathed to the college by the son of the recipient.
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Transcript
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge
Dec. 20. 1902
My dear Vice-Master,
On Thursday last {1} I had a visit of some hours from Mr L. M. Stewart, nephew and executor of the late Mr “Ben Drury,” of Caius {2}.
He read to me the enclosed letters of Byron to Mr Drury’s father, “Old Harry” as he was called at Harrow, a Son of Dr Joseph Drury the Head Master.
He left out one sentence in one letter about the Turks, which he told me was disgusting {3}, and I have not seen it.
The letters date between 1807 {4}, when the Hours of Idleness were published, and 1815 soon after Byron’s Marriage.
As there are numerous references to my Father, it may be well just to point out that my Father succeeded Dr Drury at Easter, 1805, and that Byron left the School that summer, i.e. I suppose, at the end of July. Consequently, their relation as Master and Pupil lasted only some 12, 13, or 14 weeks. How a reconciliation came about, and how the “gold pen” was given, I do not know, but our family tradition vouches for both facts, to say nothing of Moore’s Biography.
You will observe that the letter of 1810, in wh. the {5} reference to the “gold pen” occurs, describes the famous swim from Sestos to Abydos, and adds—what I had either not known or forgotten—that the swimmer had made a previous attempt which failed.
May I ask you and Dr Sinker kindly to take Charge of the letters, which Mr Benjamin Drury bequeathed to our Library, and to consider where and in what form they may best be kept. The fact that they are a bequest should be specially recorded.
Perhaps it might also be recorded that Dr Joseph Drury, the Grandfather of the Testator, was himself a Trinity man. His Son, “Old Harry,” to whom Byron wrote the letters, was at Eton and King’s.
I am, my dear Vice-Master,
Most truly yours
H. Montagu Butler
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2 folded sheets.
{1} The 18th.
{2} Benjamin Drury’s sister Emily (1813–1902) married Stewart’s father, Lestock Wilson Stewart (1824–1876), an army doctor, in India in 1852.
{3} See the letter of 3 May 1810 (R.2.40A/4). Stewart may well have omitted more than one sentence.
{4} The earliest of the letters (R.2.40A/2) in fact dates from 13 January 1808, but it was misdated 1807.
{5} ‘1810’ struck through.
Harrow.
Harrow.
Harrow. Cites the need to change the procedure for recording the borrowing of books, is most obliged to him for his suggestions of books to buy, has the Taine Notes sur l'Angleterre for Mrs Butler. Is busy examining the candidates for the Indian Civil Service, "and such a set of idiots I never saw." On the verso of the letter are Butler's notes about the borrowing of books.
3 Foley Avenue, Hampstead Heath, N.W. Announces the death of an unidentified person. Signed Rances Martin.
40 Mecklenburgh Sqr. W.C. Thanks him for his kind words about his edition of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library, find his hendecametric experiment a tour de force.
Brookthorpe, Gloucester. Thanks him for her kind words about the memoir; recalls the pride and pleasure F. W. Maitland took in being made an Honorary Fellow of Trinity; is sorry to hear of Professor Butcher's illness; thanks him for his kindness in entertaining Fredegond.
The Vicarage, Plumstead. Shares his memories of Richard Appleton, who had just died.
Invites him, at the behest of friends of T.C.D. in Cambridge, to take the chair at the meeting on 2 March.
Letter enclosing his printed "Memorandum on the Whewell Scholarships, to be submitted to the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, and to the electors to the Whewell Scholarships". With a copy of a poem in Punch by Tom Taylor about William Whewell, with note, "Copied by me Decr 4, 1906 in Hall during Scholp. Examn. H. Montagu Butler."
Trinity College. Presents his edition of BIshop Westcott's History of the English BIble.
Asks for help with a Latin inscription for something dedicated to his father Robert Francis Leslie; shares his memories of Robert Leslie Ellis.
Encloses three letters from nonagenarians for her collection: from H. H. Holden [item 66], R. Broughton [item 69], and Dr Paley [item 58], describing each man for her.
Compliments Mayor’s memorial inscription of [J C] Adams: [Trinity Lodge]
Three translations, one unsigned, another signed by F. V. H., C. B. S., A. A. V. [Vansittart], and another signed by Stewart Brown MA.