Item 623 - Letter from Arthur Bernard Cook to J. Rendel Harris

5 pp., 1 env.

Gift of David Mitchell, Sept. 2021.

19, Cranmer Road, Cambridge - Is sorry to hear of the enforced retreat to Selly Oak; attended James George Frazer's 87th birthday party and comments on his health and on his wife Lilly, thinks James a better Christian than himself; describes wartime Cambridge, with bombs falling on the outskirts of town, the constant sirens, with a story about the reaction of the Rev. Henry Carter during a service in the [Emmanuel] Congregational Church; the Library treasures scattered, Professors [David Winton?] Thomas and [Percy Henry?] Winfield, as members of the Home Guard spending nights on the top of its tower; describes his contributions to an exhibition at Peterhouse Lodge, 'Fifty Centuries of Greek Art'; also describes a 'Hellenistic gem' he acquired from a cement-worker in Shepreth which bears an inscription he traces to Adam of Newmarket.