Item 51 - Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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Add. MS a/551/51

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Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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  • 5 Apr. 1935 (Creation)

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(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
5 April 1935

My dear Gerald,

I lose no time in thanking you for your birthday present, which I have lost no time in sampling. It is very good, better than potted char; and you have probably started me on a road which will conduct me to the doom of Henry I.

I thought your walk in Wales very enterprising and judicious, and I am glad you were able to seize the good weather before it degenerated into this. My chief recent experience has been motoring sixty miles to a funeral on Wednesday, through country in many places white with hail.

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 7.30 p.m. on 5 April.

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