Item 48 - 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
12 March 1935

My dear Gerald,

As to the point you want my advice on, I think it would be a pity to break off your medical education unless a really good offer in the mining world came along. I am glad that you are getting on satisfactorily and with enjoyment.

This last fortnight I have been rather worse than usual and the doctor has been sending me to bed for week-ends, and this odious weather makes me quite ready to go there. I therefore do not feel that I should ask you to stay here even for two nights, as I cannot be sure of being able to entertain you properly; but if, as you suggest, you came over for the day—including both lunch-eon and dinner I hope—I should be very much pleased to see you, unless some accident should intervene. I have given up the idea of going abroad in this next vacation, and expect to be here all the while.

Thank you for your news about your mother, who I hope is now quite well; and I hope that your ulcerated (a word I deciphered with great doubt and difficulty) throat is healed.

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 9.30 p.m. on 12 March.