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Letters dated
28 Nov. 1912
29 Jan. 1913
22 Apr. 1913
11 Feb. 1914
8 Mar. 1914
25 Feb. 1916
30 Oct. 1916

Letters dated
11 Feb. 1920
15 Feb. 1920
29 Mar. 1920
7 Jan. 1922
22 Feb. 1922
20 June 1922

One of 48 notebooks, Add.MS.c.113-150, used for Powell's edition of Thucydides published in 1942. Collation of Utrecht Gr. 13. With a typescript note from A. S. F. Gow to Powell dated 9 June 1935, two typescript drafts of "A lost manuscript of Cicero", one of them corrected, and one sheet of notes laid in loose.

Typed pages containing Gow's notes and [Laurence's?] corrections. Accompanied by a typescript letter from Gow to Philip Gaskell [Librarian of Trinity College Library] dated 16 June 1968 and an undated four page letter from Peter [F. L. Lucas] to Gow about the poems at the back.

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

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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.

(The review is headed, ‘Poet and Scholar. The Last of the Shropshire Lad’.)

9 letters from various people making suggestions of portrait artists to be used in making portraits of Trinity Fellows under of the scheme funded by the Memorials Committee. The letters are from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., W. R. M. Lamb, Henry M. Hake, A. M. Hind, C. J. Holmes, Henry Tonks, Edward Maufe, David, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, and W. J. W. B. Artists discussed include G. L. Brockhurst, Francis Dodd, Paul Drury, Eric Gill, R. Gleadowe, Eric Kennington, Winifrede Knight, Henry Lamb, W. Rothenstein, F. E. Jackson, A. K. Lawrence, T. W. Monnington, Randolph Schwabe, and Leon Underwood. Accompanied by two sheets of notes.

Letters dated
21 May 1923
17 Oct. 1923
21 Oct. 1923
14 Dec. 1923
9 Jan. 1924

Letters dated
26 Mar. 1925
27 June 1925
30 Nov. 1925
18-19 Mar. 1926
4 June 1926
20 Jan. 1927
20 Jan. 1928
28 Jan. 1928
8 Feb. 1928
5 Mar. 1928
26 May 1928
27 July 1928
14 Dec. 1928
3 Mar. 1929
5 Mar. 1929

Three letters.

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

W. H. Salter's manuscript reminiscence headed "Housman and Mrs Verrall's Automatic Writing" and a letter from A. S. F. Gow concerning this and the papers of A W Verrall.

Department of Latin, University College, London.—Seeks his support for the publication of a collected edition of A. E. Housman’s articles.

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University College London, Gower Street, WC1
Department of Latin
15th December, 1960.

Dear Mr. Symons,

You may remember that in my Memorial speech on AEH I expressed the hope that his explicit wish that his writings should not be collected would one day be set aside. The reasons for your uncle’s wish are stated by Mr Gow, and by providing an index to the articles he admits that it runs counter to the needs of scholarship. The index, however, is not a satisfactory substitute. All over the world scholars need these writings, and only in a few places are the journals containing them available. The copyright of the articles is considered to be vested in the editors, and a preliminary enquiry with the editors of the Classical Review and the Classical Quarterly has brought the reply that they would not only permit but positively welcome the publication of the articles. When journals cease to exist, as e.g. the Classical Journal has done, the copyright, I believe, returns to the heirs. I am therefore writing to you to ask what your own views are, and whom, apart from you, I should approach.

I may say that this is merely exploratory. No editorial committee has been formed, and I myself may in the end not be associated with the venture at all. But because of my speech I seem to have become for the moment the centre at which the voices of those who want and need this publication are gathered, and I have therefore decided that it is for me to put before you and whomever you suggest our point of view. It is that scholarship needs these writings; that they are so distinguished also in their style that they should not be withheld; and that the reasons for your uncle’s wish are not valid. No scholars wants to be judged in the light of his earlier publications. Nevertheless the writings of great scholars are generally collected, and every person whose judgement is worth while understands that the author in his maturity would not have approved everything he had ever written. Perhaps the special circumstances in this case could be stated in a dignified manner either in an English preface or in a prefatory Latin poem.

I should be most grateful for an expression of your views.

Yours sincerely,
O. Skutsch.

N. V. H. Symons, Esq.,
Lymington, Hants.

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Typed, except the signature and a correction.

Letter from Housman, undated but likely 1926 accepting the invitation to sit for a portrait, and five letters from R. Gleadowe discussing arrangements to provide drawings and to draw a portrait of Housman.

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Thanks him for a copy of The Shakespeare First Folio.

Letter from Innes agreeing to sit for F. Ernest Jackson, and five letters from Jackson about the portrait.

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Praises The Shakespeare First Folio.

Two letters from Glaisher and five letters from Francis Dodd about the portrait. In the letter dated 19 Aug. 1926, Glaisher shares his memories of William Davidson Niven. In the letter of 1 Aug. 1926 Dodd declines to make another drawing of A. E. Housman, as he has found that he rarely repeated success with a subject.

One letter from Hopkins and two from Kennington.

Two letters from William Nicholson and from J. J. Thomson relating to the varnishing of the Thomson portrait. Thomson's letter also includes remarks on Sir William Davidson Niven.

Two letters from A. M. Hind advising on the use of Celastoid and one letter from the restorer J. R. England sending a sheet.

26 Carlyle Square, London, SW3.—Suggests dividing the A. E. Housman letters in his possession between University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge.

(A note of Symons’ reply indicates his approval of the suggestion.)

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26 Carlyle Square, London, SW3
19th January 1961

Dear Symons

The Housman Letters.

I have little doubt that Trinity, Cambridge, would accept them if they were offered, and so I daresay for the matter of that would St. John’s College, Oxford: even the stuffiest of librarians would not look this gift horse in the mouth. I was more concerned with the question which institution has best de-served the offer by showing some signs of interest, if not enthusiasm, in the past. Gow has always been rather crusty and uncooperative in these matters, and Trinity library has never made any attempt to improve its representation of AEH’s published works. It is true that the letters to Mrs Symons date from the Cambridge period, but those to his step-mother are all much earlier; so that if the balance of appropriateness of site is evenly divided my own feeling was that the decision should come down in favour of the institution that had done something to deserve the gift. A possible alternative, of course, would be to give Trinity the letters to your mother, which span the years 1911 to 1936, and to give UCL the letters to Mrs Housman, which range from 1875 to 1901. How would you feel about this?

Yours sincerely
John Carter

N. V. H. Symons, Esq. CIE, JP,

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Typed, except the initial and final greetings and the signature. The letter-head describes the writer as a Bibliographical Consultant. The last two sentences have been marked in the margin with a line and the letter ‘A’ and at the foot the recipient has written: ‘Replied 20.1.61 approving of A. N.V.H.S.’

One letter from Ruth Head, another in her hand but dictated by Henry Head, and one from Francis Dodd.

One letter to Gow from Horace Lamb, and four from his son and portraitist Henry Lamb.

Passing along miscellaneous correspondence relating "to the drawings in the collection".

1 letter from Walter Leaf dated 23 Dec. 1926, and five letters from Randolph Schwabe dated Dec. 1926-Apr. 1927.

Two letters to A. S. F. Gow from Fortescue, including one in which he hopes the artist (Eric Gill) "is not a conceited & confident young man because, for some reason which I cannot divine, I am a difficult subject..." With two letters from Eric Gill to Gow dated 18 Dec. 1926 and 26 Feb. 1927, the second mentioning that while he was drawing Fortescue was reading proofs and Gill thinks "the expression of the eye rather convey the critical look of a proof reader."

One letter from Pollock to Gow dated 4 Jan. 1927, and four letters from R. Ray Jones to Gow about the portrait, and including the information that Pollock had been "an extraordinarily difficult sitter."

Letters dated
12 Oct. 1931
2 Nov. 1931
16 Nov. 1931 [addressed to Gow?]

One letter from T. Martine Ronaldson to A. S. F. Gow dated 31 Dec. 1926 agreeing to do the portrait and a letter from Heath on 16 Jan. 1927 agreeing to sit.