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54 Cours Napoléon Ajaccio (Corse) - Thanks her for the cake from the birthday party; Martine [Giamarchi, a great niece] is reading the history of M. Blanc and 'Le Rameau d’or'.

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio (Corse), Easter Monday - Thanks her for the photographs; reacts to her news that they are thinking of getting a bigger place, and that Sir James can work 5 hours a day; discusses arrangements to visit Paris in May; Martine [Giamarchi, a great niece]loves to read what Lilly sends; his nephew has retired and they will be going to Cannelle earlier; will be attending a wedding of the daughter of old friends and relatives.

A supplementary collection of papers of Clive Bell which contains Bell's appointment diaries from 1913 to 1963 as well as a few literary items and material on the history of the Bell family.

On headed notepaper for Newnham College, Cambridge. Typed, with autograph signature. Certifies that Ambrose has been a student of Newnham and a 'recognised research student of the University of Cambridge' since October 1932.

In 1932-1933 the courses she attended were 'Metaphysics' with Moore, 'Philosophy', and 'Philosophy for Mathematicians' with Wittgenstein, and 'Advanced Logic' with Braithwaite. This year she is continuing the first two of these, as well as attending courses on 'Types of Deductive Logic' with Braithwaite and 'Theory of Functions of a Real Variable' with Ingham. Professor Moore is the supervisor of Ambrose's research work.

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50 Wilton Crescent {1}
Saturday | April 26' {2}

My dear Humphry

Thanks for the lunch we will appear at 2.pm. Certainly enter me for scratch fours please. I am glad I have hit off something. I must come and look at the Parade also on Monday. If you have not yet entered for Middlesex Assoc' Meeting don't till I have seen you.

In Haste
Yrs very truly
Waldegrave

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Black-edged paper.

{1} Waldegrave's London residence.

{2} '1873' has been added in pencil.

The caption gives brief details of Green’s aeronautical career, with a facsimile of his signature.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
17 Dec. 1926

My dear Gerald,

I have got your letter of Oct. 11 and am glad to hear of your doings, but the earlier letter which you speak of did not find its way to me. I expect it was eaten by a lion, as you may have been by this time.

If I remember right, you were here in May just before I went off to Venice to see my gondolier. I found him better than I expected, as hot weather suits him, and he is still alive, but he’s just gone into hospital with hemorrhage. I stayed there only a few days, and then spent a week or so in Paris. In July and August I was at my old home and other haunts of childhood in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. At Woodchester, once my grandfather’s parish, there is a Roman pavement, the finest in England, which is uncovered and shown from time to time, and this year was one of those occasions: I spent a week in the place, which I should have enjoyed more if I had not been dragged in to make explanatory speeches to the visitors, owing to the lack of persons in the village who could do it. Then I made a short motoring tour in Derbyshire, to see the most picturesque spots.

I heard from your mother not long ago, but I need not tell you any of her news. I am glad that Africa is geologically a good continent, and I hope its Christmas weather is not too hot.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | R.C.B.C. Ltd. | N’Changa | Via N’Dola | N. Rhodesia | S. Africa

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The envelope, which has been marked ‘Answered 24/3/27’, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.45 p.m.(?) on 17 December. The postage stamp has been torn off.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
2 May 1929

My dear Gerald,

I was glad to have your letter of Jan. 28, with your photograph, which however made you look rather thin; though I suppose that is the right condition for a hunter, and perhaps for a geologist.

My godfather has died at the age of 88, so you must expect to lose me in 18 years’ time.

I expected to see Rupert last term, as he was coming up to a College Feast for men of his period; but just on the eve of it the Master of the College went and died {1}, so it had to be put off, I suppose till next year.

The Times has been printing snapshots of lions in the jungle. In one of them they were eating something, and I feared it might be you, but it was more like a zebra.

I am glad we may expect to see you back in England in the summer. I expect to be away from here most of July, but in residence most of August.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | R.C.B.C. Ltd. | N’Changa | Via N’Dola | N. Rhodesia | South Africa

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 7.15 p.m. on 2 May and at Ndola, N.W. Rhodesia, on 25 May.

{1} William Mollison, the Master of Clare College, died on 10 March.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
15 May 1929

My dear Gerald,

I have written the letters you wanted written, and it appears from the enclosed that everything will be right.

I do not suppose that you will have any difficulty in taking the degree in six terms. The Ph. D. is not thought much of in Cambridge, but it helps one to get jobs outside. In the Arts Faculties we are thinking of abolishing it, but in any case it will be retained in Science.

Thanks for your offer to give me sable horns; but my wall-space is already insufficient for my books, and I regard the pictures which I have as nuisances. So let the poor animal live.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | R.C.B.C. Ltd. | N’Changa | Via N’Dole† | Northern Rhodesia | South Africa

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m.(?) on 15 May and at Ndola, N. W. Rhodesia, on 8 June, and has been marked in pencil ‘15 May 1929’.
 

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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’.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
2 March 1930

My dear Gerald,

There will be a bedroom for you on Saturday. Let me know when to expect you.

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 10.15 p.m. on 2 March.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
22 Oct. 1930

My dear Gerald,

You don’t mention your Cambridge address, but I hope you will come and see me soon. For instance on Sunday morning I am pretty sure to be in.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | Dept. of Geology | Royal School of Mines | S. W. 7

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9.15 a.m. on 23 October, and has some rough notes of names and engagements on the back.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
27 Feb. 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am glad that you are not finding your new studies too dull or difficult, and glad too that you have a prospect of a healthy holiday in the summer. I am sorry that the Cambridge men at St Thomas’s are ‘very bisexual’, but perhaps that is only your handwriting. Your ‘Outline’ I am pleased to see in print {1}, though to me the geology of N’Changa remains obscure.

The Lent races are just over, in which Third Trinity was bumped by Fitzwilliam Hall, a disgrace unknown in history. Such things however do not affect my health, which is good now that I have got rid of a rather long cold.

No, I am not likely to be embarrassed by want of funds when taking my holidays.

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 10.15 p.m. on 27 February.

{1} ‘Outline of the geological history of the N’Changa district, Northern Rhodesia’, published in the Geological Magazine, lxx (1933), 49–57.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
28 March 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am glad to hear that you have got through your Part I and that old age has not yet destroyed your memory.

I shall be here all through the vacation, as they have got me to give the Leslie Stephen Lecture next term, and it is a great toil and trouble and leaves me no time for anything else. Otherwise I would have asked you to come here for a day or two.

The crocuses in the avenue, now over, have been more magnificent than ever before. The rival show at Queens’ is out of action, as they had to cut down the walnut in the middle of the bed.

The bronze Hermes in Whewell’s Court had his body painted black and his face yellow on the last night of term; but it took only a few hours to get the stuff off.

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 10.15 p.m. on 28 March.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
14 Oct. 1933

My dear Gerald,

Your proposed transfer has advantages, as you describe them, but take care not to overwork yourself and cram in more than you can manage.

My strength comes back very slowly, if at all.

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 9.30 p.m. on 14 October.

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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’.