Item 12 - Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple

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Add. MS a/614/12

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Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple

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  • 3 Mar. 1927 (Creation)

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1 sheet, 1 envelope

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Semple, William Hugh (1900-1981), classicist
(1900-1981)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College
3 March 1927

Dear Semple,

I should be glad to know what your commentators say about umbra {1} smaragdi Sid. carm. 11. 24.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | St John’s College [At the foot] Local

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.45 p.m. on 3 Mar.

{1} The word appears at first sight to read ‘unibra’, but the dot is almost certainly a fleck of dirt embedded in the paper.

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