Item 29 - Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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Add. MS a/551/29

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Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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  • 13 Nov. 1932 (Creation)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
13 Nov. 1932

My dear Gerald,

Thanks for your information, printed and otherwise.

Your new neighbourhood near Dulwich and the Crystal Palace used to be rather nice, but has probably been a good deal built over since my time. The train service, which was then very bad, is probably better.

There is great debate here about the medical course, whether it is to be separated from the science Tripos.

It is good of you to ask me to your degree ceremony; but, as you suppose, I have seen enough of such things for one lifetime.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald 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 10.15 p.m. on 13 November.

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