Item 1 - Letter from Caroline Jebb to George Augustin Macmillan

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Add. MS a/716/1

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Letter from Caroline Jebb to George Augustin Macmillan

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  • 17 Oct. 1907 (Creation)

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Headed mourning stationery, 'Springfield, Cambridge'. - Returns one of the letters she had retained [now Add. MS a/716/2]. Thanks him for his 'kind and considerate reception of the book' [her Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb...], and for his corrections; asks him to send her any other errors he sees. The Pitt [Cambridge University] Press expect that they will have to reprint before long. A few slight errors 'cannot easily be changed' and will be left in place unless reviews draw attention to them. Discussion of a mistake involving Henry Cecil Raikes and Sir George Stokes.

Postscript; wishes there 'could be a gossippy review somewhere with copious quotations'; afraid that the 'high level of the Times' delightful Review' [Times Literary Supplement, anonymous but by J. R. Thursfield, 10 Oct. 1907] may give the impression that the book is not for the general reader.

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      The book referred to is Caroline Jebb's Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb...: With a Chapter on Sir Richard Jebb as Scholar and Critic by Dr. A. W. Verrall. Cambridge University Press, 1907.

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