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WW has just written a letter to JCH concerning the importance of his experiment to measure the density of the earth and therefore his inability to return for the forthcoming elections at Cambridge [see WW to JCH, 4 June 1826]. If JCH is not going to Cambridge he should get somebody else to open the letter he addressed to him and deal with the contents. WW and George Airy 'are working hard and getting on as well as the nature of our trade allows which is to carry 7 chronometers up and down 1200 feet of vertical ladders every day, and to watch the dangling of a brass bar with a brass bob at the end of it'.

Draft of the preface and notes; three corrected proofs of the preface, July-Aug. 1879, one of which has notes in an unidentified hand, with a note at the end, "If you wish to speak of Richard's Character, and agree in Hare's view of it, turn all this Coleridge twaddle into a few lines of your own good Prose, into which Hare is quite out of tune." Accompanied by a draft of the playscript and notes dated July-Oct. 1879.

(With an envelope.)

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Transcript

Trinity College | Cambridge
10 Feb. 1930

My dear Gerald,

Do you think you could come here on Saturday March 8? If you say yes, I will try to get a bedroom, which is why I propose a date so far ahead.

The last train to London on Sundays is 8.27, and has a restaurant-car.

Your affectionate godfather
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] Gerald Jackson Esq. | 85 Oakley Street | Chelsea | London S. W. 3.

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.15 p.m. on 10 February.

London, Vere Street, 'near Oxford Chappel'. Sent to Sir Edward Littleton at Fedgeley [Teddesley?] Coppice, Staffordshire. - Apologises for not finishing any more busts. Has had to finish the statue of the Duke of Somerset and some other things to keep his men at work. Has finished four busts for Littleton: Milton; Sir Isaac Newton; Locke; and Bacon; now promises to begin that of Sir Walter Raleigh. Describes work and reason for delays.

Has called on Mr Wilson to see the portrait of Littleton's wife, as Littleton desired, and likes it very much. Ends with wishes for good health of both Littletons.

Leigham - Will be pleased if the parents to whom Blakesley has recommended him send their children to his school as he now has only 5 pupils, has become curate of Egg Buckland, unsuccessful attempt to gain a valuable hereditary living in Gloucestershire, has visited North Wales

Drumore, Blairgowrie, N.B. Dated October 1, 1909 - Thanks him for ['Passages of the Bible'], thinks the Authorised Version of the Bible is the channel through which the Classics have exercised their best influence.

Anne Hathaway's purported reply to Shakespeare's letter is also transcribed.

Trinity College - WW gives his and George Peacock's travel plans for this summer. The latter 'sometimes talks rather wildly of going to Norway'. WW is thinking of printing which will entail him spending much of the vacation in Cambridge. If RJ is not leaving Brighton both WW and Peacock will probably visit him. 'How goes on your political economy? - I hope we are to see and hear something of it before long'.

Pictures at

Enclosing sketch of birds by Hon. Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, at p. 119.