Item 27 - Letter from A. E. Housman to W. H. Semple

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Add. MS a/614/27

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

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  • 27 July 1932 (Creation)

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(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
27 July 1932

Dear Semple,

Thanks for sending me the news, though I wish it had been different. I am glad that you are satisfied with Wood, to whose name I do not myself attach any clear recollection, though I am told he was at this college {1}.

So far as I can forsee† I shall now be here, where I have just returned, till October, so you would probably find me if you came.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | 23 Eastern Avenue | Reading

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 12.15 p.m. on 27 July.

{1} The reference is to E. J. Wood, Professor of Latin at Aberystwyth, whom Semple had probably met in connection with his application to that university.

† Sic.

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