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Paris (4bis, rue des Ecoles) - Thanks him for 'Sur les traces de Pausanias', has used Pausanias in preparing his 'Essai historique sur le sacrifice'; has been translating the New Testament, which he will send to Frazer.

Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum - Congratulates Frazer, and notes that the Society feels special satisfaction that the O.M. is conferred on a scholar who approaches antiquity 'so largely from the side of archaeology, in all its branches'.

Wotton Lodge Nursing Home, Gloucester. - Thanks the Trevelyans for their letters following Catherine's operation [see 1/113 and 1/114]. She seems to be recovering well. The children are well and being cared for by grandmother or aunt. It is very good of the Trevelyans to offer a home for David, and please thank Lady Trevelyan for her kindness.

Thinks Julian will like to see this letter from Eddie Marsh, originally enclosed; he need not return it. Hopes Julian, Ursula and [Philip] Erasmus will have a good time at Gorringes. They have got and will read 'Bernard's Club book', which 'begins very well', but he is wrong to think there has 'never been a Breakfast Club'. Bob's father belonged to one - is unsure whether it still exists - along with 'various brilliant or interesting people' such as Wolesley, Grant Duff, Henry James and [Lord] Rosebery too he thinks; they 'breakfasted somewhere about ten o clock and went on talking for hours'.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Booa [Mary Prestwich] got Elizabeth's letter this morning; Caroline is upset that her chilblains are still so bad. Booa will try to get something which will help her; thinks the cold has been too much for her in 'that Italian-built house'. Wishes she were here so that she and Booa could nurse her; it is very cold in the passages here but the rooms are 'comfortable enough'. Asks whether an upstairs room would be better; Sir George had the room Elizabeth is staying in and Caroline was struck by its chilliness. Hopes Meg Booth will arrive soon and cheer Elizabeth and Robert up. Asks if Robert is getting his walks on the hills. Sir George has given her the Brownings' letters this morning, they are 'very interesting & delightful' though she is not sure whether they should have been published.

Hopes that C[onscientious] O[bjector]s 'have no conscientious object to VICTORY!!'

Postmarked London E.C; addressed to Trevelyan at 53 Rue de Rivoli, Paris 1er. - Sends thanks to Trevelyan, [Antoine] Bibesco, and [Francis] Birrell for the 'charming message'. Wishes he could come to Paris, and will do so as soon as the war is over. Asks Trevelyan to give his regards to [André] Gide if he sees him; is sorry not to have met up with Gide again after they parted at Liverpool Street. If a 'feeling of abstract melancholy' comes over him, Trevelyan will know that Norton's 'heart is near'.

Wixenford, Eversley. - Asked Mrs Arnold to write yesterday with details of Bobbie's train home, as he was too busy to do so properly. Thinks they should be pleased with Bobbie's progress considering the 'long interruption to his work at the beginning of term'. Since his parents like him to do some work in the holiday, give some suggestions. Has done better in several examinations than in his class work, showing that he had 'understood and remembered the work better than anyone'; he tends to lose marks in class due to 'his slow manner and mumbling though not unintelligent way of reading'; gives an example of him understanding a grammar exercise better than older boys.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Has received Florence's will and her letter to Robert from May 1906, which show good will and feeling towards the family. Sees a large payment will soon be liable; has written to Mr Philipson to ask for a valuation of Florence's personal property which will come to Robert after Cacciola's death; Robert and Elizabeth need not worry about the money in the meantime [implying that he and Caroline will pay any outstanding sum?]. Presumes Cacciola is the executor.

Intermediate Base, M E F. has been transferred.

Must decline the invitation to Trinity, pleased that CJM has "formed some acquaintance" with Newton's Principia, encourages him to find a popular account of Newtonian philosophy

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(Kristiania, Norway?)—‘All good wishes for Xmas. I hope you haven't seen this one before.’

(Illustrated with a photograph of a skier at Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925). The writer is identified as ‘B. Dowson’ in the original typed list, but the grounds of the identification are unknown.)

Is the book WW mentioned the one on Natural Theology reviewed in the new Quarterly Review? HB thought WW spoke of it as a book on morals and general jurisprudence.

Collingwood - JH was not sure whether WW was abroad or not: 'So I now (taking it for granted that you are in College) send book xi which I finished not long since and am now advanced some way in book xii'. JH is thinking of publishing all the books he has translated so far of Homer's 'Iliad'. JH is still ill with bronchitis which he has now had since mid-January: 'when it goes , I fancy it will take me with it'.

Edinburgh - JDF feels a great regret that he will be unable to invite WW to stay in Edinburgh at the time he is expected at Glasgow. JDF is sorry and astonished by the 'species of persecution to which you had been subjected by Sir D. Brewster, and I heard privately that your forbearance on the occasion had been remarked with admiration'. JDF has an incomplete series of WW's tidal researches and wants him to supply him with the missing ones.

Thanks WW for a copy of his Mechanical Euclid ['The Mechanical Euclid', 1837]: 'If I were allowed to criticise, I should feel disposed to submit, that geometry can stir more than 'four steps' without resting her foot upon an axiom. Up to the 28th Prop. of the first book of Euclid...I should be disposed to say there was nothing which it was not mere 'idleness and avoiding of labour' to refer to an axiom. Whether the great sticking-point about Parallels will ever be really got over, time must show; but if anybody should ever be fortunate enough to light on such a discovery, I apprehend there would be an end of Axioms in Euclid'. It is because we are unable to get over this point we retain the axioms. TPT believes 'that the mystery of parallels is lodged, or to be sought for, in what for shortness I will call the Platonic property of the sphere, namely that by which any sphere or spheres can be turned about the centre without change of place' [see his 'Geometry without Axioms. Or the First Books of Euclid's Elements', 1830, in which he tries to establish the theory of parallel lines without recourse to any principle not founded on previous demonstration].

Expresses his and Mary's joy at 'each successive piece of good news' about Sidgwick. About to depart for the Tyrol the following day. Thanks him for his 'most kind and generous letter.'