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FRAZ/18/101 · Item · 2 Aug. 1927
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex - Her letters haven't reached him, hasn't stayed at the Meurice Hotel for years; the booklet is an improvement on the yellow 'volumette'; wishes they could be at home to receive them and François Ceccaldi later in the month.

R./2.40A/15 · Item · 19 May 1932
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class R

(The envelope bears the printed words ‘On His Britannic Majesty’s Service’, and is labelled ‘Bill of Lading | for Lord Byrons Furniture | Ref. F.O. Desp. No 9. (L2523/43/402) | 19/5/32.’ This is presumably the envelope in which the bill was sent from Venice.)

R./2.40A/17 · Item · 28 June 1912
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class R

Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, S.W.—He and his wife propose to present to the College a letter from Byron to Trelawny (R.2.40A/10), to be put with the cap sent four years earlier.

(The cap is still in the College’s possession.)

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Army & Navy Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
June 28th. 1912 {1}

My dear Innes,

Do you remember four years ago prevailing on the Master to take charge of the Cap worn by Lord Byron?

My wife and I think the College might like to possess and place with it, a characteristic letter from the poet to Trelawny.

I hope all is well with you & yours, our kind regards to Mrs. Innes

I have not forgotten having tea with her on the bowling alley green

Yours sincerely,
C. F. Call

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McLeod Innes has written at the top, ‘Ans[were]d 1.vii.12 | confident College delighted’, and another person has added in pencil, ‘Col. Call’s gift’.

Add. MS c/52/36 · Item · [19 May 1831]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Brasted - RJ has received a very positive letter from Lord Lansdowne concerning RJ's book ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and the Sources of Taxation', 1832]: 'he had read it with the attention it so eminently deserves'. Having thus read the book he concluded that they [Ricardians] had fallen 'into error by reasoning too much from narrow grounds and that he values proportionably better views - sound inductions etc.'. Lansdowne wants RJ to call on him when in London. 'I am pleased - it is a good and leading opinion gained and apparently strongly gained and apparently strongly pronounced and you whose reputation is more than half committed to the book will not I am sure be above being pleased too'.

FRAZ/33/407 · Item · 15 June 1937
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Her husband has asked her to report on the College Council discussions of the Wyse Fund: the Statutes do not allow a double Fellowship being allocated, and no funds allowed for Beneficent purposes may be voted to a Fellow; she does hope 'that a successful plan will quietly be carried out by the user of The Wyse fund'.

HOUG/36/98 · Item · 22 Dec. 1820
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Whitton Park, Hounslow. - Agrees as to inadvisability of publishing memoir of Charles Skinner Matthews: personal details of his short life, including 'passion for Whist & for boxing; will overshadow importance of a talent never fully developed; will inform Henry Matthews. Scrope Berdmore Davies had only about £200 on departure last year, but Mr Hibbert thinks he might escape calamity of income from King's College fellowship can be conveyed to him; he is at Ostend with irretrievable debts of seventeen or eighteen thousand pounds; Mr Andrews will be hardest hit'; Davies should have sought help from his friends rather than obtain money under false pretences. Hibbert's address is 47 Great Ormond Street.

Add. MS c/67/112 · Item · 28 Dec. 1855
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

He admits that Columbus' egg is a myth. Discusses the relationship of obtuseness or acuteness of sides to obtuse and acute angles in a spherical triangle and proposes a theorem; has found nothing in the literature of the affections of oblique triangles. Accompanied by a drawing of a [spherical triangle?] with the note, "Yours came in after I had written the above. You are right, as here appears."

Add. MS a/551/5 · Item · 4 Aug. 1928
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
4 Aug. 1928

My dear Gerald,

I got your letter of March 17 all right, and I have left it a long while without an answer; but I hope that your new rifle has protected you from lions and buffaloes hitherto. I am glad to hear you have become a Fellow of the Geological Society. Nicholas, who is going to be our new Senior Bursar, says he has kept a table for you in the laboratory. The Ellis you speak of was one of our Chaplains in the College chapel, and I knew him fairly well.

I spent a fortnight in June at St Germain near Paris, a place with a splendid view and a forest close at hand, and I also motored about. I escaped the rain that they had in England, but it was not as warm as June should be. July has been fine and hot, and next week I am off to spend a month in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Hampshire. My godfather, in whom I hope you take a proper interest, is 89 and quite in good health, but losing his memory; so be prepared for my mental decay in 20 years’ time.

I hope both you and Oscar are well.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | R.C.B.C. Ltd. | K’Changa†, via N’Dola | N. Rhodesia

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9.30 p.m. on 4 August and at Ndola, N.W. Rhodesia, on 1 September.

Add. MS a/551/9 · Item · 6 Nov. 1929
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
6 Nov. 1929

My dear Gerald,

I have just had a request from the Colonial Office to tell them all your bad qualities (refusal to learn Catechism &c), so I want to know what you are up to now, and whether you have abandoned your studies in London, and are off to Africa again. At any rate I hope the malaria is put right.

I am now at the ordinary work of term.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[DIrection on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | c/ Rupert Jackson Esq. M.D. | 97 Clifton Avenue | West Hartlepool [Redirected to:] 33 Courtfield Rd | S: Kensington | London S W 7

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 6 November and at West Hartlepool at 11.30 a.m. on the 7th.

Add. MS a/551/18 · Item · 10 Feb. 1931
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

(With cuttings from The Times, 9 and 10 Feb., containing articles headed ‘Empire Copper | The New Mines of Rhodesia | I.—A Task for the Geologist’ and ‘Empire Copper | II.—Recruits to Rhodesia | A Mixed Mining Community’, and an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
10 Feb. 1931

My dear Gerald,

These articles may interest you if you have not seen them. I hope you are not one of the people who have been caused much distress by the closing down of the Burana M’Kubwa mine.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | Imperial College Hostel | Prince Consort Road | S. W. 7

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 10 February.