Item 32 - 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
28 March 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am glad to hear that you have got through your Part I and that old age has not yet destroyed your memory.

I shall be here all through the vacation, as they have got me to give the Leslie Stephen Lecture next term, and it is a great toil and trouble and leaves me no time for anything else. Otherwise I would have asked you to come here for a day or two.

The crocuses in the avenue, now over, have been more magnificent than ever before. The rival show at Queens’ is out of action, as they had to cut down the walnut in the middle of the bed.

The bronze Hermes in Whewell’s Court had his body painted black and his face yellow on the last night of term; but it took only a few hours to get the stuff off.

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 28 March.