Item 27 - Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

(With an envelope.)

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Transcript

Trinity College | Cambridge
20 Oct. 1932

My dear Gerald,

It will be best for you to write to me at the beginning of each year telling me as well as you can what you require until the next; and this, if present circumstances do not become worse, I shall be able to send you annually. But, if I die, this will not continue. I am just making a will, in which I am leaving you three hundred pounds, and directing that my debts due from you to me at the time of my death are to be forgiven you.

I am glad that you are enjoying your new line of study; and as you do, I cannot think of anything to which you should apply yourself in preference.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | Royal School of Mines | South Kensington | S. W. 7 [Redirected to:] 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 12.15 p.m. on 20 October and at S. Kensington, S.W.7, at 11.30 a.m. on the 21st.