Identity area
Reference code
SMIJ/1/120
Title
Letter from J. H. Whitfield to James Smith
Date(s)
- [c. July 1938] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 single sheet
Context area
Name of creator
(1904-1972)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
110 Banbury Road, Oxford.—The enclosed letter from Deighton Bell may explain why Smith has not received a copy of Scrutiny. Thanks him for his notes on [Enea] Vico, and refers to Vico’s Vetustissima Tabula. Is thinking of coming over towards the end of the vacation. Is sick of reading books he hasn’t read before, like De Nolhac’s Pétrarque et l'Humanisme. Cites a quotation to encourage Smith in his gardening.