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Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W.—Rejects Nichol Smith’s criticism of the prospectus, and discusses the composition of the panel.
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Park Lodge, Wimbledon, S.W.
14 Jan. 1924
Dear McKerrow
We got home this afternoon & your letter arrived an hour later. I found one from Grierson accepting & wishing success.
I dont think Nichol Smith is in any way essential & as he was declining I thought his criticism unnecessary. {1} I told him I agreed generally that the most fruitful work of the last gener-ation had been English & not German but that that did not seem to me any objection to the sentence in the circular. I also said that while I had no desire to minister to German swelled head still less did I wish to pander to smug English selfcomplacency. So I expect he felt his knuckles rapped but being a nice fellow I hope he wont bear a grudge.
I am glad the appeal has been a success. I am not sure what representation we have from Cambridge—except on that score Chadwick is not the least essential. A. C. Bradley—except as an advertisement—would be no use at all me judice. {2}
Ever yours
W. W. Greg
I hope to be lunching on Thursday. {3}
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{1} See MCKW A3/11b.
{2} ‘In my judgement.’
{3} 17th.
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- Greg, Sir Walter Wilson (1875-1959), knight, literary scholar and bibliographer (Subject)
- Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford (1866-1960), knight, literary critic and scholar (Subject)
- Smith, David Nichol (1875-1962), literary scholar (Subject)
- Chadwick, Hector Munro (1870-1947), literary scholar (Subject)
- Bradley, Andrew Cecil (1851-1935), literary scholar (Subject)