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- 28 Jan. 1930 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, 1 envelope
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Trinity College | Cambridge
28 Jan. 1930
Dear Semple,
I do not know anything about the Cape Town professorship except that they have asked me to be one of the electors {1}. I suppose there will be fewer applicants than for a post of the same emolument in England; and I should think that Cape Colony is quite one of our Sovereign’s most agreeable dominions. But I shrink from giving advice, and I think your own judgment likely to be good.
Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.
[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | The University | Reading
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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 28 Jan.
{1} The chair of classics at the University of Cape Town had become vacant on the retirement of William Ritchie the previous year. Ritchie was succeeded in the event by Benjamin Farringdon.
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- University of Cape Town (Subject)