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Add. MS a/551/19
Title
Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson
Date(s)
- 6 July 1931 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, 1 envelope
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(With an envelope.)
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Transcript
Trinity College | Cambridge
6 July 1931
My dear Gerald,
I am glad that your thesis is recommended, though I never had much doubt that it would be, nor, I suppose, had you yourself really.
Your gown is awaiting you in the Porter’s Lodge at the Great Gate. I shall be away from the 10th to the 18th.
I like your type-writer better than your fountain-pen.
Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.
[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. 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 9 p.m. on 6 July.