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Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire.—Geoffrey is very happy (about his engagement). Reflects on how she and Montagu felt towards each other three years ago, and on the difficulties of detaching herself from the Prime Minister. Is depressed that most of their friends and relations would by annoyed if they were to marry. Arranges to meet, and asks after his mother.

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Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire
April 20th 1915

My darling Isnt Geoffrey wonderful. {1} I’ve never seen anyone so happy. I am glad for him. Isnt it cruel that 3 years ago that summer at Penrhos I didnt like you enough (tho’ you tell me also that you didnt really love me much either) because then, tho’ the P.M had already begun to think he was fond of me, it wouldnt really have mattered to him, & now? Will it? What a fool I’ve been havent I? You, being prejudiced in my favour, may say that I’ve made him very happy for 3 years, but I know quite well that if it hadnt been me there would have been someone else or a series of others who wd have made him just as happy. I feel so ungrateful to him & yet at times I resent very bitterly that he should stand in the way. And yet I know you are right & that it wd be almost impossible for me to go to him & say. “In spite of the fact that you’ve again & again told me that if I were to marry life would have nothing left to offer you, I am going to marry Edwin” How could he be so cruel as to say that to me But I must see you, he has not [a] claim on me has he?

You suggest that I should gradually detach & free myself. But do you know what that wd mean to someone like me. I should perhaps for a week see nothing of him, make excuses for not doing so, then there’d be a scene & in order to mollify & propitiate and make him happy again I should say anything he wanted. And in all this can you understand how completely unmoved I am.

My darling dont be angry with me and think me worse than I am, there must be some way out, you’ll come Friday, there’ll be no Bluey & I’ll wait for you even if you are 10 minutes late.

I do hope you’ve found yr mother all right. Isnt it a depressing thought that amongst all our friends & relations (except perhaps my mother) there isnt one who wd be otherwise than annoyed if we were to marry? Particularly our families.

Write to me every day. Wednesday, Thursday Friday.

Venetia.

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{1} Geoffrey Howard had just become engaged to Christian Methuen. They were married on 15 May.

Montréal - Is relieved that after talking to Dennis [Aspland?] she hears everything is fine; wishes him the best for his play.

Has taken notes from his mother's correspondence before destroying it

Still a doubt as to whether he will get his degree, lack of knowledge of the calculus a great disadvantage, cramming geometry and formulae, does exam papers with Walton every day

Copy letter stating that he will not seek re-election after taking medical advice

Collingwood - Thanks WW for his remarks concerning JH's translation of Homer's 'Iliad', and gives his reply to WW's comments. JH is thinking of stopping at book six and getting his translations printed. However he has started book seven - 'not to mind a pleasing book. Homer is too hard upon Hector in making him so evidently no match for Ajax'. JH has given WW's friend Mr Kindt [Hermann Kindt] 'a castigation' for criticising Pope.

7 Camdn. St. & Town - Thanks Whewell for the sheet on the graces - 'you must have had doubts about the result when you confined yourself to asking for a trial'. The board of mathematical studies is a great improvement.

Edinburgh - JDF has not passed an autumn without illness since 1851, and gives WW a long description of how his good health has been achieved. The sudden death of Edward Forbes 'has produced a profound sensation'. Only a few days ago JDF had attended one of his lectures. JDF would have put aside his dispute with Louis Agassiz, and should have been glad to see him if he could be persuaded to come over: 'but unfavourable reports of his views of geology connected with scripture, the unity of the human races etc are here in circulation, of the truth of which I know nothing'. Clerk Maxwell is currently with JDF - he is much improved by his stay at Cambridge, and 'spoke to me in a very manly way about his disappointment of a fellowship'. Maxwell has made some 'ingenious experiments and deductions about combinations of colours..and also about Daltonians or Idiopts'. How does WW feel about the government drawing away Stokes and Willis to become lecturers in London 'to (at best) a very limited class of students, thus peculiarly favoured'. JDF is sorry to hear of the 'serious difference' between Challis and Adams.

The Secretary of State for the colonies has appointed MT to the new See of Goulburn in Australia. The officials at the Colonial Office want him to inform them as soon as he has obtained the Degree of Doctor of Divinity. Could WW advise on the proper course he should now take concerning the College and the University. He was an M.A. of Trinity College in 1843.

The Watch Committee have a report of foot passengers having water poured on them while leaving chapel. The room where the water emanated has been traced to Lionel Dymoke, a Trinity College student.

Announces that 'Raper will probably be in Savile Club on Thursday at 1.30 for Lunch', and that he has promised to meet him there and to persuade Myers to come along. States that he shall probably arrive at 13 A[ ] St. about 11.15, but certainly not later than 1. Adds that Raper 'was at the Club, but made No Calls'.

1 Brick Court, Temple, London. Dated 25th Nov. 1918 - Encloses a letter from Sir Peter Mackie [not transcribed] in which all appears organised for the expedition; invites him to visit them in Nantwych.

Love's Sacrifice, the laziness of schoolteachers, benefits of a classical education, "accursed competition" at Cambridge, end of the old world

Miscellaneous correspondence, mainly cards, letters, greetings from Frisch's parents. Few letters survive.

2 pp. typescript on research in Britain, no author. (2 copies.)

Lectures delivered May-August 1966, originally found together in an envelope labelled `Lectures Göttingen'. All are in German.

9pp. ms. draft, paginated 38-46.

Drafts and calculations.
Includes 4 loose pages on subject.