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- 9 Jan. 1935 (Production)
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1 folded sheet, 1 envelope
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(With an envelope.)
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Trinity College | Cambridge
9 Jan. 1935 {1}
My dear Gerald,
From what you said in your letter of the 19th I gather that you will be back in London on Jan. 1, so I send you enclosed a cheque {2} for £450 for this next year, which I hope will be happy and occupied with interesting work. I hope too that you found the family party at West Hartlepool in good health and spirits. Oscar wrote me a very nice long letter with much information about himself and the rest of you. He seems to be inclined to be looking for a new job.
I have not asked you to stay with me here this year because I have felt hardly comfortable enough to be fit for a guest. On the advice of a friend of mine who is a doctor I have just been a total abstainer for a week, which has only resulted in producing symptoms of gout; so I had better stick to my proper medical adviser.
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 bears a 1½d stamp, but there is no postmark or any other mark of posting. It has been marked with the date ‘19 Jan. ’35’, which is wrong.
{1} ‘9 Jan. 1935’ below ‘31 Dec. 1934’, struck through.
{2} A line has been drawn below this word to draw attention to it. Cf. Nos. 41 and 57.