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(On the front of the menu is a photograph of the Great Gate at Trinity. The signatures include those of a number of Fellows of the College besides Housman, including F. A. Simpson, R. St John Parry, Henry Jackson, V. H. Stanton, W. C. Dampier Whetham, Sedley Taylor, R. Vere Laurence, J. Ellis McTaggart, H. McLeod Innes, Gaillard Lapsley, F. R. Tennant, and F. G. Hopkins.)

Accompanied by a typed copy of a letter from G. O. Trevelyan to R. H. J. Parry dated 24 Mar. 1926, and a typed copy of a letter to the Vice Master from G. O. Trevelyan dated 28 May 1926.

Letters dated 20 Dec. 1921 - 21 July 1923.

Two letters from H. L. Greenfield to Dr Parry, and one letter from Dorothea Pertz to Dr Parry about an oil sketch by Miss Margaret Bernardine Hall, with a description of the circumstances of its creation.

Two letters from A. C. Benson to the Master of Trinity H. M. Butler in 1907 describing his acquisition of the portrait which had been very dirty, with the appearance of having been used as a target by children and offering it to Trinity, with another letter from S. Taylor to Canon Parry in 1925 concerning the portrait's similarities to Stephen Poyntz Denning's work.

Trinity College, Cambridge - Thanks her for the gift; the Vice-Master [Reginald St John Parry] is much better and Mr Capstick walked across his room unaided; is putting Mr Graves on a staircase and the bedmaker will be busy which will save the Frazers all but her retaining fee.

Relating to the gift of a portrait of Bishop Hacket to Trinity College Cambridge.

Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Very sorry not to see Bessie yesterday, and for the reason; hope the move will 'not be long held up by her lumbago'. [Mary's] 'was a very delightful wedding, thoroughly "Trinity"': the Master signed the register, [Reginald?] Parry was there, and A. E. Housman 'honoured the chapel with his presence'. There were about two hundred guests; Mary looked 'very dignified and beautiful'; the reception at home went well and Bessie's present of 'the Italian bowl' was admired; Aunt Annie [Philips] 'was in great form'. The newly-weds are in Italy now until 18 October. Very glad Bob likes his book ["England Under Queen Anne: Blenheim" - always pays 'special attention' to his judgments - and that he likes Mary's ["William the Third and the defence of Holland, 1672-4"]. He himself has a 'great admiration' for it; Mary has had letters 'highly praising it' from Sapitze [?] and Sir John Fortescue, who are 'the two people most capable of judging' the political and military aspects respectively.

Eight letters which include his frank discussion of his own disappointment in the portrait of Parry and his desire to replace it with another.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Thanks him for the copy of 'The Fear of the Dead' which he will deposit in College Library; is sorry to hear about his eyesight; the Vice-Master [Reginald St John Parry] and Capstick have made good progress: the V.M. now attends council meetings and came to Hall for the admission of the new Fellows.

With envelope addressed to Frazer at Hotel St. James, Rue Saint Honoré, Paris.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Has been reading the article on Robert's book in the latest, 'conspicuously thoughtful and refined number of the "Times Literary Supplement"' [on "The Deluge, and Other Poems": [Bailey, John Cann], "Mr Trevelyan's Poems", "Times Literary Supplement", 25 Mar 1926 p 232] which must have given him great pleasure; his part in the 'curious movement for interpreting Greek to a generation which has given up the very serious labour of reading [emphasised] Greek as an intellectual community' is an important one. Parry has sent Sir George an advance copy of his biography of Henry Jackson, which is the best he has ever read of a man or woman he has known personally; Parry must 'be a beautiful character himself' from all he has heard of him.

Accompanied by pages from a review of St. John Parry's memoir of Henry Jackson in The Empire Review of May 1926 by Birrell.

Letters dated 4 May 1903, 30 Jan. 1906, 29 Apr. 1906, 26 June 1908, 12 Feb. 1911, 10 June 1913 with draft of a letter from Jackson dated 15 Feb. 1918. Accompanied by a letter from T. Herbert Warren dated 5 March 1911 with a poem about Housman, pages from The Journal of Philology with an article by Housman, "Juvenal and Two of his Editors", a menu from the Classical Tripos Dinner, 1915, with signatures of those present, including Housman, part of a letter from Henry Jackson to his brother Percy in 1911 about Housman, a printed address to Henry Jackson dated 14 July 1919 written by Housman, a proof from The Journal of Philology of Housman's "Triste Profundi Imperium, and a typescript extract for a letter from Housman to [Reginald St John] Parry dated 3rd Jan. 1920.

Letters dated 7 July 1896 - 22 Aug. 1918. Accompanied by a copy of a petition to Trinity College Council signed by Parry and Jackson.

Accompanied by a letter from R. St. John Parry dated 1 Nov. 1931 enclosing a copy of The Laws of Motion in Ancient Thought by Francis Macdonald Cornford, Cambridge, 1931.