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- 13 Sept. 1934 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, 1 envelope
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(With an envelope.)
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Trinity College | Cambridge
13 Sept. 1934
My dear Gerald,
I came back yesterday and have received your letter of the 7th, from which I am glad to have good news of you. I had three weeks of almost perfect weather, spent mostly in Alsace and Lor-raine, a part of France quite new to me and well worth seeing. I think the trip has done me some good on the whole, though I caught a cold at the end of it and am feeling rather tired to-day.
My chief ambition all my life has been to be invited to the Colchester Oyster Feast. This has come to pass this year, but my lecture at Cambridge will prevent me from going. Let this be a lesson to my godson that earthly hopes are dust and ashes.
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 on 13 September (the time is indistinct).
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