Item 31 - Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

1 folded sheet, 1 envelope

(With an envelope.)

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Transcript

Trinity College | Cambridge
27 Feb. 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am glad that you are not finding your new studies too dull or difficult, and glad too that you have a prospect of a healthy holiday in the summer. I am sorry that the Cambridge men at St Thomas’s are ‘very bisexual’, but perhaps that is only your handwriting. Your ‘Outline’ I am pleased to see in print {1}, though to me the geology of N’Changa remains obscure.

The Lent races are just over, in which Third Trinity was bumped by Fitzwilliam Hall, a disgrace unknown in history. Such things however do not affect my health, which is good now that I have got rid of a rather long cold.

No, I am not likely to be embarrassed by want of funds when taking my holidays.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] G. C. A. 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 27 February.

{1} ‘Outline of the geological history of the N’Changa district, Northern Rhodesia’, published in the Geological Magazine, lxx (1933), 49–57.