Item 16 - Letter from Myra Curtis to W. W. Greg

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Newnham College, Cambridge.—Thanks him for a copy of the list of his writings.

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Transcript

Newnham College, Cambridge
17 December 1945

Dear Dr Greg

How very pleasant to hear from you again and to have this breath-taking list of your writings. It seems almost impossible that one person could have produced so much learned work. I am ashamed to say that I did not know you flirted with economics now and then.

I have been thinking of you lately because of a reference in Gow’s Letters from Cambridge. It seems that they have—very properly, as he says—made you an Honorary Fellow. I like to think of you in that Library, as I do whenever I go there. Much more suitable than the old W.T.I.D. {1} environment!

I always find it difficult to understand how anyone who has lived in Cambridge can bear London—or indeed anyone else. I love my life here, though I admit it is a very broken one, and includes many journeyings up and down to Committees. I gather from the address on your envelope, which I am using, that you have given up Wimbledon and returned to Sussex. I hope all the family is well and flourishing. All good wishes for Christmas, New Year

Yours sincerely
Myra Curtis

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{1} The War Trade Intelligence Department, for which both correspondents worked during the First World War.

Formerly inserted in Greg's copy of F. C. Francis’s ‘List of Dr Greg’s Writings’ (an offprint) (1945) (Adv. c. 26. 18).

This description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.