Item 58 - Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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Add. MS a/551/58

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

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  • 31 Jan. 1936 (Creation)

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1 folded sheet, 1 envelope

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Jackson, Gerald Christopher Arden (1900-1978), physician in Southern Rhodesia
(1900-1978)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
31 Jan. 1936

My dear Gerald,

I ought to have thanked you before, and this letter will hardly catch you before you start on your holiday; but, next to walking, nothing tires me so much as writing, and I tend to fight shy of it. The nurses went into ecstasies over the sweets, and over admiration of your taste, for I told them that I had left the choice to you. Harrod’s provender was also good. The doctor told me to-day that he is not coming again for a week.

I had a letter the other day from Rupert, who seems to be profiting by the retirement of some competitors. I hope that you will enjoy your holiday and that it will freshen you up for the examination as desired.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | St Thomas’s Hospital | London S.E.1 [Redirected to:] Hotel Trantheim | Engleberg | Switzerland [At the top:] Please forward

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The envelope, which bears a 2½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 31 January, and has been marked in pencil, ‘Written 3 months before his death on April 30th ’35’.

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