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FRAZ/32/118-120 · Item · May-June 1936
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse - In the letter of 18 May, he is worried about her silence after she announced her trip to Switzerland; is putting out a new survey for the Encyclopédia Française for Varagnac; their questionnaires have attracted the notice of ethologists and folklorists; he is not making as much progress in his map work as he could like; Varagnac asked for news and told him of the admiration of all his friends for 'Fear [of the Dead]' III. In the letter of 31 May, he says he will quote from the preface to 'Fear' III, to encourage his volunteers to embrace errors and not doubt their abilities, as his humility should be an example; his plans to go to the country are delayed; Martine [Giamarchi, his great niece] is very happy to have the picture magazine. In the letter of 9 June, he thanks her for her card pointing out that it has been 57 years since the composition of 'Plato’s Ideal' in 1879, and used the preface to 'Crainte' in speaking to his Normaliennes who are working on the ethnological and folklore surveys; he has written to Geuthner; there are two translations of Condorcet, Chouville and Mme de Pange.

FRAZ/32/110-114 · Item · Jan.-Feb. 1936
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse - He is pleased things are going well for her; is working with maps of Corsica, and some have Dutch text he cannot read (Jan. 19); he thanks her for various things she has sent in the post: the 'Times', with its coverage of Edward VIII (Jan. 28), an issue of 'Punch', with an image [?] of Canon [Alexander] Nairne at Windsor (3 Feb.) and pictures for Martine [Giamarchi]. He has sent a parcel of responses to the questionnaire to Varagnac; is happy they had a good evening with Wickham Steed (16 Feb.).

FRAZ/32/107-109 · Item · Oct.-Nov. 1935
Parte de Papers of Sir James Frazer

54 Cours Napoléon, Ajaccio, Corse - In the letter of 30 October, he is resigned to the fact that they will find a collaborator for Sir James and have their own requirements; refers to the reception of Lilly Frazer’s books at the local school; writes of Madeleine, recovering from typhoid fever, and her brother, who has just received a doctorate in law. In the letter of 29 Nov. he has agreed to organise the surveys for Varagnac for the Encyclopedie Françoise. In the letter of 12 Nov., he is glad to hear they will be at their club until the end of the year; thinks the translation by Madame Roth is ingenious, but it is hard to match the quality of Sir James’ verse. The achievement of 'The Fear of the Dead' is difficult if one cannot reread the documentation and though Frazer has a good memory he should have someone help who can find what he needs and read it to him. All three letters contain news of Martine [Giamarchi, a great niece].

Sraffa MS/C/2 · Documento · c. 1807-1814
Parte de Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

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)

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/31 · Item · 22 Nov. 1935
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/30 · Item · 12 Aug. 1935
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/29 · Item · 11 May 1933
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/27 · Item · 27 July 1932
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/26 · Item · 6 May 1932
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/25 · Item · 14 Nov. 1930
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/24 · Item · 29 Sept. 1930
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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].

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/23 · Item · 9 May 1930
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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.)

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/22 · Item · 3 Feb. 1930
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/21 · Item · 28 Jan. 1930
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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.

Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/20 · Item · 10 Dec. 1929
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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.

Postcard from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple
Add. MS a/614/19 · Item · 31 May 1929
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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.