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Asks her to ask Mr Horton what is the exact nature of information he requires, since he cannot ask [George Granville?] Bradley for information generally 'when he has given in the printed paper what [HS supposes] he thinks enough.' Suggests that Arthur could ask 'a [United] Usher.' Comments that the poem Lady Grace by Miss Smedley 'though not great is good reading.'

Quoting a letter from Leslie Stephen to K.S. States that he would like her to say that he has nearly finished his article [on Henry Sidgwick, for Mind; cf 103/111], which, because of its brevity, is inadequate. Believes that if there is 'a fair supply of letters, a singularly interesting life might be written.' Does not know whether Nora Sidgwick would undertake it herself.

Reminds him that they are in town, and invites him to come and lunch with them. Refers to Sidgwick's work and expresses hope that 'it is making progress.'

He admits that Columbus' egg is a myth. Discusses the relationship of obtuseness or acuteness of sides to obtuse and acute angles in a spherical triangle and proposes a theorem; has found nothing in the literature of the affections of oblique triangles. Accompanied by a drawing of a [spherical triangle?] with the note, "Yours came in after I had written the above. You are right, as here appears."

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. Dated May 9 - Suggests Miss Kingsley for something in Frazer's 'totem line'; dropped Max [Müller's?] Icelandic and wrote a new introduction for an unidentified work.

RJ has only just got through the examination papers and must then go to Brighton. He has come across 'some curious philological questions in my teutonic researches which will amuse you'. RJ hears and believes 'that the government are in difficulties about finance and are meditating fresh taxes on raising the income tax to shilling'. This, he thinks, will be a problem after the general election.

With photographs of unveiling of commemorative plaque by Taylor, and of members of the Boole family assembled for the occasion (identified on verso by Gabrielle Boole).

Concerns investigations into crystal structure of protective films on metals. Includes typescript 'Report on protective coating acquired by magnesium alloy during chromate treatment', by R.O. Jenkins.

Sonnets to England, Jan. 1854; To Queen Victoria, on her leading the Baltic fleet to Sea, May 1854.

Enclosing manuscript of play, Shakespeare's Birthday.

Held 22-27 October 1962; Synge spoke on 'Chromatography'.

G/112: Correspondence re arrangements
G/113: Provisional programme; programme; information
G/114: Manuscript notes

Items originally assigned numbers 112-114 have been removed: they were catalogued with the Frazer papers initially in error, they are are part of the Papers of Sir Walter Greg, GREG 1/196-198, three postcards from [J. S.?] to W. W. Greg, dated 1939-[1942].

114: Letter of 11 Apr. 1865, concerning a sketch of John Keats on his deathbed.

(Bibliog. 118 and 119)

Since Davenport collaborated with Birch on these two papers published in 1958, and as an accurate division of this material between them would be impossible, it has been arranged in a single chronological sequence.

D.112: June, July 1957
D.113: August 1957
D.114: September-December 1957
D.115: January, February 1958
D.116: March-July 1958
D.117: 2 ms. drafts, 5pp. and 11pp.
D.118: 2 ms. drafts on same subject, 7pp. (with 4pp. ms. notes) and 6pp.
D.119: Miscellaneous ms. notes, drafts and calculations
D.120: Ms. notes by Birch