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On headed notepaper for 86 Chesterton Road, Cambridge. Has been a supervisor to Ambrose for more than two years, while she has been researching for her Ph.D. on 'Finitism in Mathematics'. She is 'an industrious & intelligent student, very well aware of the difficulties of the subject...& very persevering in her efforts to overcome them. She is keenly interested not only in the particular subject of her research but in philosophical problems generally'. Thinks 'she would be a competent & stimulating teacher of philosophy'.

Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies, Dépot des Cartes et Plans - Reports that they have not many tide observations, and the only complete and unpublished observations were made by Capitaine Bérard, who made observations in New Zealand.

A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘The Ante Chapel, Trinity College, Cambridge. 3448. G.W.W.’

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

Probably a commercially-produced print. Captioned below by hand, ‘Trin. Coll. Chapel, looking West. | 1886.’

Probably a commercially-produced print. Captioned below by hand, ‘North Side I. | Disciples of Christ.’

Of a similar date to the photograph on f. 2r.

Probably a commercially-produced print. Captioned below by hand, ‘North Side V. | English Ecclesiastical Life before the Reformation.’

Of a similar date to the photograph on f. 2r.

Probably a commercially-produced print. Captioned below by hand, ‘North Side VIII. | Worthies of Trinity College.’

Of a similar date to the photograph on f. 2r.

A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, looking East. 3449. G.W.W.’

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Gate of Honour, Caius College, Cambridge. 3415. G.W.W.’

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

A commercially-produced print, numbered 26488 on the image.

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Cloister Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. 3461. G.W.W.’

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Trinity College Bridge, Cambridge. 6637 J.V.’ The photograph includes two men in a rowing boat.

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘“Bridge of Sighs,” St John’s College, Cambridge. 3426. G.W.W.’

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

A commercially-produced print, captioned on the image, ‘Quadrangle, Clare College, Cambridge. 7640. G.W.W.’

Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.

The photograph shows a small boy, probably in a studio setting, sitting on an ornate chair with a small open cardboard box beside him. The name of the publishers, ‘E Day & Son Bournemouth’, is written on the mount. Since the firm did not acquire this name till 1873, the boy cannot be Richard Appleton.

24 Stephen's Green, Dublin - A suggestion on how to improve WW's anemometer and obtain additional meteorological information, including a way of determining the hours the wind was blowing strongly or slightly: 'The mechanism I believe would be very simple'.

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15 Sept. 1927
Royal Monceau Hotel
55, 57, et 59 Avenue Hoche, Paris

My dear Gerald,

I am writing this letter in Paris, but shall not post it till I return to England at the end of the week, because it would be a bother to find out the right postage here, and in any case it would probably be exorbitant.

I was also here when I received your letter of Aug. 7; but since then I have been spending a fortnight on a motoring tour, the longest I have ever been, and have seen a great deal of France: Burgundy and the Jura as far as the Swiss Frontier, and then Lyons and Clermont Ferrand. The weather was good almost all the while, and I was lucky, for in Paris as in England it was bad, like most of this summer and autumn.

Unfortunately I shall not see Oscar in England; at least I am afraid that he will be leaving just when I get back. I had a very interesting letter from your mother about the total eclipse of the sun last June, for which Hartlepool was the best spot in England.

I hope you have killed your hippopotamus by this time. I have not heard whether you have yet shot a lion, but I suppose you would have mentioned it if you had. I am glad you like your job and do not mind being in the bush. It is fortunate you are not so much devoted to tennis as Oscar; though I suppose your blacks might be taught to play it.

I remain
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 bears some rough diagrams and the date ‘Sept 15th 1927’, was postmarked at Cambridge at 12.[..] p.m. on 19 September, and at Ndola, N.W. Rhodesia, on 15 October. The postage stamp has been torn off.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
10 Feb. 1930

My dear Gerald,

Do you think you could come here on Saturday March 8? If you say yes, I will try to get a bedroom, which is why I propose a date so far ahead.

The last train to London on Sundays is 8.27, and has a restaurant-car.

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 10 February.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
15 July 1930

My dear Gerald,

I don’t know where you now are, but I expect to be here till the end of the month and beyond it, and if you are inclined to come for a day or two I should be very glad to see you. But perhaps your term is over and you are off to Hartlepool or some other distant spot. In any case I hope you have been well, and prospering in your geology. I was in Paris for a fortnight with splendid weather almost all the time, and did a good deal of motoring in the neighbourhood.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | 85 Oakley Street | Chelsea | London S. W. 3. [At the top:] Please forward if absent

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 15 July, and has been marked in pencil ‘15 July 1930’.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
15 Oct. 1930

My dear Gerald,

I am sorry that you do not expect to come here this term, and so will Nicholas be, to whom I mentioned that you were to be expected. Would you be able, and would it be worth your while, to pay me a visit for a week-end? I seem to remember that your week-ends in term time are very short.

It is great good news that the Company has made you a grant, and you ought to be pleased with yourself.

I did not know that your College was a college to the extent that it could be lived in; but as it is, I should think you would find it better than being by yourself.

The Virginia creeper which you ask after is quite at its best at present in St John’s, but both there and in Trinity a good deal of it has been removed in the last year or two to make room for other things.

Advice from a godfather. Don’t add ‘M.A.’ in addressing a letter. I don’t know why, but it is not the custom. Don’t say ‘I will have to work’ when you mean ‘I shall’. But I never could teach you your catechism.

Your affectionate though inefficient godfather
A. E. Housman.

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

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 15 October, and has been marked in pencil ‘15.10.30.’

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
21 Sept. 1931

My dear Gerald,

I am sorry that you have been too smart for me over your College account, especially as you are apparently going to starve for want of a job.

I only know Dinard by sight, from the opposite side of the bay. In Scotland I found fine weather at last, and all the eight days I spent there were good. The scenery was just what you would expect Scotch mountains and lochs to be, and an artist who was there was full of admiration for the atmospheric effects. I came back at the end of August and am spending this month working, as I have already had more than my usual amount of holiday this year.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. Jackson Esq. | Dept. of Geology | Royal School of Mines | South Kensington | S. W. 7

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.[1]5 p.m. on 21 September, and has been marked in pencil ‘21 September 1931’.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
29 May 1934

My dear Gerald,

I am glad that you are enjoying yourself now that you have got actual victims and are not restricted to theory.

There seems to be some want of co-ordination between authorities as to appointments on the Rand. Do not think yourself obliged to jump at any job which offers.

I am not by any means well, though the spring is pleasant and the show of flowers unusually fine.

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 6 p.m. on 29 May.

(With an envelope, addressed by A. S. F. Gow.)

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Evelyn Home | Trumpington Road | Cambridge
Monday Jan. 6

My dear Gerald,

To-day I am so much better that I can ansswer† civilly to letters like yours. Hitherto my in-digestion and nausea have been too disabling. I shall try to send you a cheque for £450, which if I mistake not is the regular ammount† and which I beg you to accept, if so, without demur, as I can quite sustatin† it. My head has sometimes got confused bentween† your family and my nephews.

I have not yet dared to eat anything you sent me from Fortnum & Mason, but I hope it is keeping all right. Brawn is a thing I am very fon† of at Xmas if it keeps properly.
Thanks for your visit.

A. E. Housman

This is sent by the kind offices of Mr. Gow of Trinity

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson esq | St Thomas’s Hospital | London | S.E.1

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 8 p.m. on 7 January, and has been marked in pencil, ‘Address in Mr. Gow’s handwriting. Written from Evelyn Nursing Home Cambridge.’ The letter is written very uncertainly in pencil; the direction on the envelope is in ink.

† Sic.

(With a note by G. C. A. Jackson, dated 25 July 1950.)

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Aids | towards answering the first question in the | Catechism.

When G. C. J. Arden
Goes out in the garden
To play with the slugs and the snails
Their lives are imperilled
By C. A. J. Gerald
Who treads on their backs and their tails.
Their tails and their backs on
Treads G. C. A. Jackson,
And each of them squirms and exclaims,
“Oh G. A. J. Christopher,
See how I twist over
Under your numerous names.”

[The accompanying note is as follows:]

Dr G. C. A. Jackson
85 North Avenue, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia
25.7.50

“Aids towards answering the first question in the Catechism”

Written some time after my christening {1} by | A. E. Ho[u]sman | my Godfather.

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The indentation of the verses has not been reproduced.

{1} Moses Jackson asked A. E. Housman to stand as Gerald’s godfather in 1900, the year of Gerald’s birth (Letters of Housman, ed. Burnett, vol. i, p. xxxviii), but it is unclear when the verses were written.

JGL has received WW's note: he does not know when he will be back in town or whether he can undertake anything new for WW's collection [of hexameters]. If WW does not proceed rapidly JGL still hopes to participate in the work.

Regent's Park - On the possibility of JGL's son going to Trinity College.

Regent's Park - JGL's good friend Sir John McNeill, late minister in Persia, was educated at St Andrews and now writes on a subject connected with his alma mater. Comments regarding the Greek Chair at Glasgow.

Swansea - GA will be 'extremely glad' to have Neale as a pupil. However, further to his correspondence with Myers, he does not know whether Mr Hare had or had not already engaged a tutor for Neale. Could WW answer some questions further to the fellowship examination - 'In the first place must I sit at all? In the next place supposing that I sit, by what time must I be at Cambridge?'"

Observatory - Henderson [Thomas Henderson] is with GA: 'I intend to bring him to hall; pray dine there if you have nothing better to do'. GA gives the two things which need correcting in his Venus paper.