Item 35 - 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
10 June 1933

My dear Gerald,

I am very glad to hear of your success in the examinations and of your nearness to success in the Iraq post. I hope you will have good weather and enjoy yourself with the Irish Guards. Your news about Rupert’s financial affairs is very vexatious.

I am back here after about three weeks† absence with relations in Worcestershire and Somerset, where I had some pleasant motoring, but I am not well. In the hot weather in the beginning of June I spent a week in a nursing home, because the doctor said my heart was all over the place. It has behaved properly ever since, but I am told not to walk much in the heat, and that deprives me of the exercise on which I regularly depend, and makes me feel weak. On the other hand an oculist to whom I went today about new spectacles says that my eyes are very good.

I feel that I ought to apologise for answering your letter by return of post: it annoys me when people do it to me.

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 10 June, and has been marked in pencil ‘10
June 1933’.

† Sic.