Item 24 - Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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Trinity College | Cambridge
17 June 1932

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for sending me your able and convincing monograph, full of beautiful new words, both long and short, of which my favourite is vug {1}.

I shall not be going to Spain this year at any rate, as I have just taken my foreign holiday in France, where the last four or five days were stiflingly hot. I expect to be spending most of July in various parts of England.

The improvement in the aeroplanes since this time last year is extraordinary: they are much roomier and steadier, rather quicker, and have little more vibration and noise than a railway train. Also the pilots have become much more clever and accomplished, and can fly above clouds and even through them without losing their way, so that one is not in constant danger of hitting trees and knocking off tall people’s hats.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

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{1} A ‘vug’ is a rock cavity.