RJ learnt this morning that both his Parliamentary Bills are safe. If he had not been so close at least one of them would have failed - 'but even that is but a trifling consolation for being tied up like a dog with such a small occasion. Prime reform in the manner of conducting business in the legislature and in the distribution of work among the public offices must be the work of the next generation - and a radical one too. RJ and Charlotte Jones are off to Folkestone and possibly France tomorrow. RJ's 'Law has been an amusement and consolation to me - there is no sort of obscurity hanging over either the sources of the common law or the times[,] occasions and men concerned in welding the mass - so much I am sure of and hardly know how to believe it should not have been made plain before'.
Carlsruhe. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton; discussion of health spas in Germany with the hope she might see Houghton there; family news, and regards to Houghton's daughter Amicia.
Fryston. - Called with his son Robin but missed recipient; Robin absorbed by International Exhibition and missed train, but was entertained by Mr. Bruce; his success at school. George [Monckton Arundell] gives a good account of his father [Lord Galway] at Kissingen; they will be at Serlby on Monday awaiting ducal friends.
One of these letters has ms. notes and calculations by Taylor on verso
Encloses a reprint of a paper by Hunt.
Beginning ''As I have been examining for these scholarships for fifty years...'. Original manuscript by Thomson, inscription on back by Rayleigh?
Marked.
Lund - Thanks them for their interest in his book 'La confession des péchés'; before he left Italy, Malinowski asked for a copy of his book, but since then he has no news of him; as for Macmillan's offer to publish an English edition of 'La confession' he would be happy for them to do this, will send the first volume when he returns to Italy; the Congrès [of the International Association for the History of Religions] has completed its work and has chosen Berlin as the host city for the next conference in 1933.
Accompanied by an envelope redirected from Trinity College to The Midland Grand Hotel Room 110, St Pancras, London, N.W.1.
Grand Hotel Kurhaus, Berchtesgaden - Hopes their return to Cambridge will go better than she expects; is happy to hear Sir James is at work on the 'Fasti'.
Postmarked Englefield Green. - The rest of the first act [of "The Bride of Dionysus"] will 'go like billy-oh' up to the 'Beereids' [Nereids] at least. Trevelyan's arrangement of Minos and Phaedra's remarks is 'quite perfect'; will base the 'Alas for thee' chorus on two other themes 'instead of on unrecognisable monotones'. In a 'PPS', he says he has found a theme for another chorus to echo.
Calcutta. - Apologises for typing - it is 'too hot and clammy' to write by hand. Glad to hear that Trevelyan has invited his friends [the Germanova/Kalitinsky household] to visit the Shiffolds; it will be very good for Andriusha to come to England, and perhaps Trevelyan might have time to take him to Cambridge to see the University. He feels very far away, and fears that the reference Trevelyan made to Ulysses and his dog [Argos] in his poetic epistle to him may come true: feels Rex [his dog]'s reproach keenly, but does not see how he could return to Europe with no work. Talk of offering him a University Professorship in Indian Fine Arts; is not particularly keen, but would get a year's study leave at once to spend in Europe. Sure Trevelyan will do all he can to fix him up at the League [of Nations]; it would be useful if [Clifford] Allen could talk to Albert Thomas or other Secretariat official.
Trevelyan must have heard of Andriusha's 'wonderful success'; a shame he cannot go to see Madame Germanova play at the Pitoëff's. Sometimes has news of Julian from his friends in Paris; worries that he might not make as many friends there as in Cambridge, he is 'really much too nice and clever for the ineffectual Monte[p]arnasse set'. Is looking forward to Trevelyan's next book of poems ["Rimeless Numbers"]; has been talking to mutual friends about him, such as his old Oxford friend [Apurba Kumar?] Chanda, Principal of Chittagong College, and Arun Sen, a barrister who knew Lowes Dickinson at Cambridge. There is also Abany Banerjee, also a barrister, who used to be prominent in the 1917 Club. The reading of post-Tennysonian English poetry he had to do for his two lectures at Hyderabad has inspired him to write some poetry again, 'under the influence of such diverging people as Kipling, Housman and Yeats'; will send them later. Encloses two photographs taken at the Singhs' at Bhagalpur.
2, Cheyne Gardens, S. W. - Thanks Bessie for her letter; glad she likes Theodore [as a name for his son]; Jan is 'doing extremely well now'. Is sure that Miss [Ivy] Pretious 'could not get away', but Miss [Mary] Sheepshanks might; gives her address. Miss Sheepshanks 'certainly answers to [Bessie's] description' and is a 'very interesting person with many fine qualities both of mind & character'.
5 St Mary's Passage, Cambridge - is possessed by "furor Wagnerianus", Charles Booth is to receive honorary doctorate, considering trying to get work at the Education Office someday, to visit manor house at Audley End with Sayle.
Sarah Monk's funeral
7 Camden Street & Town - He has found some very queer things about the Aristotelian syllogism - deficiencies and redundancies which he will publish in a treatise of technical logic. He would like 'the mathematical world to see how necessary mathematical considerations are to common logic'. He has a logical paper ready on the 'mode of balancing the joint effect of testimonies and arguments for and against'; diagrees with [Richard] Whately's formulas and shows his own.
Southend, Essex - AHB's attempt to inscribe a regular heptagon in a given circle.
Written from Rochester.