Item 10 - Letter from A. E. Housman to G. C. A. Jackson

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Add. MS a/551/10

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

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  • 5 Feb. 1930 (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
5 Feb. 1930

My dear Gerald,

This is a belated answer to your letter to me at Christmas, which I hope you enjoyed at Rupert’s. They tell me that it was very difficult to get you to leave your work even to go and see your family, so I don’t know whether I can induce you to come here some time from Saturday to Monday. So far as I can see ahead, any date would suit me; but during term, that is down to the middle of March, it would be necessary for me to know some time beforehand, as I might not be able to get you a bed in College.

I hope the arrangements which you were trying to make about the D. Sc. have turned out successfully.

Your bad language about the English climate is really rather ungrateful, for it appears from statistics that last December was the sunniest within human memory.

I had plenty to eat and drink at Christmas, and consequently am quite well, as I hope you are.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | 85 Oakley Street | Chelsea | London S. W. 3.

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 9 p.m. on 5 February, and has been marked in pencil
‘5 feb 1930’.

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