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The numbered papers are a.96-7, a.35-40, a.62-95 (with a blank unnumbered leaf between a.64 and a.65), a.31-2, a.41-51 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.14, a.109-14, a.98-108, d.3-8, a.131-2 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), d.9-69 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), a.115-16, a.126-7, a.119-22, a.117-18, a.124 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.130, a.128-9, a.123 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.212-25, a.233-45 (a.235 appears to have been missed out by mistake), d.70 (a printed leaf, joined to three unnumbered printed leaves), a.2-7, a.9-12, a.8, a.13 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), and a.15.

The headings which occur among these papers include the following:

‘Lettre. | Aux Dames’ (a.96)

‘Lettre aux Dames’ (a.35)

‘Lettres des | Deux Philantropes’ (a.62)

‘Aux Savants | Sur la Perfectibilite de LEsprit humain’ (a.41)

‘Chapitre second | sur la perfectibilité indefinie’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘dixieme époque | des progrès futurs de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘aux Savans | Sur la perfectibilité de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘Sur la philosophie’ (a.109)

‘Mon opinion | ou | Esquisse | d'un rapport sur l'affaire générale’ (a.98)

‘Introduction | aux | Travaux Scientifiques | du | Dix-neuvieme Siécle’ (d.3)

‘Observations générales | sur la 1re classe | des travaux Scientifiques du 18e Siécle’ (a.131)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques du | 19eme Siecle’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques | du 19eme Siecle’ (d.9)

‘Premiere Partie | Livre premier | de l'univers’ (a.115)

‘Chapitre second | Considerations metaphysiques’ (a.128)

‘Chapitre troisieme | des taches du soleil’ (a.125)

‘Prospectus | d'un nouveau cours d'études Normales’ (a.212)

‘Physiques des Corps organisés | introduction’ (a.213)

‘Lettres | de | C.-H. Saint-Simon’ (printed) (d.70)

The title cited is from the title-page. The volume is labelled on the spine ‘St. Simon | Nouvelle Encyclopédie | MSS.‘, and on the front ‘L.D.L.S.’ The written leaves are numbered in the bottom right-hand corner from ‘d.73’ to ‘d.224’.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
22 Nov. 1935

Dear Semple,

Your letter found me in a nursing home, whence I issued forth three or four days ago. My heart can no longer sustain the 44 steps to my rooms in Whewell’s Court, and I have had to descend to the ground floor in the Great Court. Ever since June I have been very weak. I have lectured however all this term, motoring in from the Home.

I was sorry that you had missed the award, though the ladies will probably be smitten with Onians {1}. I have no distinct idea of his work, and I am afraid that I had never been conscious of Williamson’s existence.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq | 29 Upper Redlands Road | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 8 p.m. on 22 Nov.

{1} The chair of Latin at Bedford College, a women’s college in the University of London, had fallen vacant on the death of the incumbent, Harold Williamson, on 7 June. Semple evidently applied for the post, but it was awarded to R. B. Onians.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
12 Aug. 1935

Dear Semple,

You are heartily welcome to use my name as a reference in applying for the Hildred Carlile Chair, and I hope you may succeed.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | Dornie | Barnhorn Road | Bexhill-on-Sea

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. Silver Jubilee stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 12.10 p.m. on 12 Aug. 1935.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
11 May 1933

Dear Semple,

Thank you for your letter. I had no idea that you were there.

Yours sincerely
Serius Augurinus {1}.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 5.15 p.m. on 11 May.

{1} The allusion appears, at first sight, to be to one of several men of this name, all with the praenomen Gaius, who served as consul or as one of the duumviri quinquennales in the first century AD; but perhaps, in a modest reference to his own poetical achievements, Housman is referring to Sentius Augurinus, a minor poet commended by Pliny the Younger, who is conjectured to have been named Serius in an inscription. See The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1844), iv. 123.

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Trin. Coll. Camb.
13 April 1933

Dear Semple,

I am glad you are trying again, and very willing to be a referee.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
27 July 1932

Dear Semple,

Thanks for sending me the news, though I wish it had been different. I am glad that you are satisfied with Wood, to whose name I do not myself attach any clear recollection, though I am told he was at this college {1}.

So far as I can forsee† I shall now be here, where I have just returned, till October, so you would probably find me if you came.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | 23 Eastern Avenue | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 12.15 p.m. on 27 July.

{1} The reference is to E. J. Wood, Professor of Latin at Aberystwyth, whom Semple had probably met in connection with his application to that university.

† Sic.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
6 May 1930

Dear Semple,

So far as I am able to judge, I approve both your rejection of Harvard and your application for Aberystwyth. I think I would rather be a referee than write another testimonial, as one can express oneself with more freedom and ease.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15(?) p.m. on 6 May.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
14 Nov. 1930

Dear Semple,

The Appointments Board wrote to me about Sheffield, and I mentioned your name. By all means use me as a reference; and come and see me when you are here.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 14 Nov.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
29 Sept 1930

Dear Semple,

I enclose what I hope will be of use to you, and wish you good luck.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman

You should not put M.A. after names on envelopes. I do not know why, but it is so.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 11.[..] p.m. on 29 Sept. 19[30].

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Trinity College | Cambridge
9 May 1930

Dear Semple,

Much occupation, both serious and frivolous, has delayed me in answering your letter. I do not know that commentators either on Ovid or on Virgil have brought the two passages together, but I suppose you had better look at Frazer, whom I have not at hand. I should think that a connexion is quite possible, though atria Tiberina seems to have been a precise local name for the great crook in the river {1}, while domus, to judge from Stat. Theb. IV 831 (839) is wider.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 7.15 p.m. on 9 May.

{1} The reference is to Ovid, Fasti, IV. 329–30. ‘It is a common opinion that the atria Tiberina mentioned by Ovid is a distortion of some obsolete local name. The site has been located on the spot where Ovid writes the River Tiber “turns left”, that is to say north, for the first time. Or, rather, where it used to turn, immediately east of the Ostian colonly, when it followed its ancient river bed … Unfortunately, the Tiber as a consequence of a disastrous flood, changed its course in 1557.’ (Leena Pietilä-Castrén, ‘Atria Tiberina: Remarks on Ovid’s Fasti 4,275–347’, Archon, xvii (1983), 64–5.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
3 Feb. 1930

Dear Semple,

I am told by authorities on etiquette that it would not be wrong for me to let you use my name as a reference; but it would be aimless, as I shall be there in person.

One probable drawback to the post occurs to me: the University was only founded in 1918, and there must be a dearth of books there.
Yours sincerely

A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 3 p.m. on 3 Feb.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
28 Jan. 1930

Dear Semple,

I do not know anything about the Cape Town professorship except that they have asked me to be one of the electors {1}. I suppose there will be fewer applicants than for a post of the same emolument in England; and I should think that Cape Colony is quite one of our Sovereign’s most agreeable dominions. But I shrink from giving advice, and I think your own judgment likely to be good.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 28 Jan.

{1} The chair of classics at the University of Cape Town had become vacant on the retirement of William Ritchie the previous year. Ritchie was succeeded in the event by Benjamin Farringdon.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
10 Dec. 1929

Dear Semple,

You can do as you suggest about c. XV 65 sq.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 7.15 p.m. on 10 Dec.

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Many thanks for transcribing the notes, one of which I had not got in my other copy.

A. E. H.
31 May 1929 Trin. Coll. Camb.

[Direction:] W. N.† Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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A prepaid (1d.) postcard, postmarked at Cambridge at 3.15 p.m. on 31 May.

† Sic.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
6 March 1929

Dear Semple,

In Sidon. c. 15 66 I think I understand ter denas myras. When 30 and the Moon are found together, the reference is most likely to the 30 days which are roughly the time of her synodic revolution. These may be called μοῖραι because a day is roughly the same fraction of the year that a degree is of the zodiac, 1/360; and while the Moon is passing her 30 days the Sun is traversing 30 degrees of the ecliptic.

For tropico climate (if it is not mere surplusage and applicable to all the planets alike) I can only think of an explanation uncomplimentary to Sidonius. Saturn’s sphere, the outermost of the seven, was cold, as in the passages I cite at Luc. X 205–9 {1}; Sidonius’ phrase in 61, ire per summa polorum, may indicate that he thought the orbit of Saturn passed somehow through the two poles; and, if so, he may here be putting the Moon’s orbit in the tropics merely because her sphere is the innermost, without reflecting that the Sun’s orbit (not to speak of the other planets) must also be there.

prope may be taken locally, as you suggest, the Moon being προσγειοτάτη πάντων τῶν ἄστρων {2}, or it may modify ter denas, the exact time being rather less than 30 days.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.45 p.m. on 6 Mar.

{1} M. Annaei Lucani Belli civilis libri decem, ed. Housman (1926).

{2} Cleomedes, Caelestia (Κυκλικὴ θεωρία μετεώρων), I. 3. 30.

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Trinity College
20 July 1928

Dear Semple,

You would generally find me in about 6 in the afternoon, possibly asleep.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | H New Court | St John’s College

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Trinity College | Cambridge
12 March 1928

Dear Semple,

Neither timidus nor any word expressive of character would suit Hor. art. 114 or any of the four following verses, and it would not match heros, which is not such a word: it is applied to Midas in Ouid. met. XI 106 and to Actaeon when running away in III 198.

Neville was here some months ago, and I was glad to hear from him that you seemed to like Reading.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 12 Mar.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
24 Nov. 1927

Dear Semple,

In the poetical astronomy of the ancients the evening star does rise: Catull. 62 7, Verg. buc. VIII 31, culic. 203, ciris 350. It also dodges round the sun at night and turns up next morning as morning star: Catull. 62 34 sq. etc. What Horace is saying is that neither evening nor morning takes Valgius’ grief away {1}: Cinna ap. Seru. georg. I 288 (Baehr. frag. poet. Rom. p. 324) ‘te matutinus flentem conspexit Eous | et flentem paulo uidit post Hesperus idem’ {2}.

I am glad you find Reading pleasant.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 3.15 p.m. on 24 Nov.

{1} The reference is to Horace, Odes, II. 9. 9–12.

{2} The vertical line in the quotation is in the MS.

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Trinity College
9 July 1927

Dear Semple,

Well, this is very satisfactory, and I congratulate you heartily. I only hope that you will not find too few books at Reading and begin to hanker after Manchester.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | B New Court | St John’s College

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Trinity College
26 April 1927

Dear Semple,

I don’t think that the passage of Symmachus has much bearing on Sidonius VIII 16 2, who is thinking rather of Juvenal VII 55 or something like: see Mayor there and vol. II p. 448.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | St John’s College

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Trinity College
3 March 1927

Dear Semple,

I should be glad to know what your commentators say about umbra {1} smaragdi Sid. carm. 11. 24.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | St John’s College [At the foot] Local

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.45 p.m. on 3 Mar.

{1} The word appears at first sight to read ‘unibra’, but the dot is almost certainly a fleck of dirt embedded in the paper.

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Trinity College, 5 Feb. 1927

Dear Semple,

It will probably be most convenient for you if I put down in writing what there is to say about Sidonius ep. VIII 11 9. It is the case that he is making a show of knowledge which he does not possess, and using terms which he does not quite understand.

thema is the position of the heavens and all the heavenly bodies at the instant of the birth. geniturae schema is the same thing; schema itself is a more general term, though sometimes used for thema, as also genitura sometimes is. constellatio properly means only the relative position of the seven planets, but practically comes to the same thing. diastemata zodiaca are probably not the 12 signs of the zodiac but the 12 τόποι into which it was divided at the birth, of which I give an account in my 2nd book of Manilius pp. xxix–xxxi.

asyndetus is rightly explained by Sirmond, and has the same sense in the passage you cite from Rufinus. It is not inconsistent with super diametro, because a planet might be in the diametrically opposite τόπος (or sign) and might nevertheless be asyndetus because not at the diametrically opposite point; in technical language not μοιρικῶς or partiliter opposite.

retrogradus you explain correctly, but it is not only the outer planets which retrograde: Venus and Mercury do so, though to a less extent.

apocatastaticus in itself is a vague term, applicable to anything moving in a circle and so arriving at a spot where it has been before. If it here has a precise meaning, it probably is that Mars was in the middle of Scorpius, which is the position he occupied at the creation of the world.

super centro, ἐπίκεντρος, is the opposite of asyndetus, and means configurated, whether by diameter or trigon or tetragon or possibly hexagon. A planet thus placed is best able to exert its influence; and the influence of Mars is malefic. Sidonius apparently supposed the sense of the word to be something more special than it is.

amici nascentis anno and erexerat and in occasu taken together seem to be mere gabble, for of course planets have no annual rising or setting. inrubescentes is another piece of nonsense, Saturn being dull white in fact and black in astrological fiction.

I am nearing the end of my troubles and shall be able to see you at 6 o’clock on Tuesday the 15th if you like to come.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | St John’s College

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On the back of the envelope, which is not stamped or postmarked, are various abortive and corrected Latin verses (not in Housman’s hand), apparently written in the process of composing a dedicatory inscription.