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Has been reading 'The Golden Bough' and describes the taboo concerning menstruating women pickling pork or beef in Suffolk 20 years before.

Brasted - RJ knows as much as WW regarding John Herschel's movements. However, RJ 'can answer for him as boldly as if I was present to his thoughts - 1st he will not stand if there is a chance that he would be in your way or I think Peacock's [George Peacock] - 2ndly He will not stand if he has to canvass the heads with a chance of an opposition so far I am sure 3rdly I do think he would accept the professorship with the expressed and implied condition of lecturing if you and Peacock were out of the question and it was offered him unanimously'. However this will not happen. Herschel further has an 'aversion to the very thought of a Cambridge professorship - he wrote to me with some surprise and some apparent sorrow when you first talked of the mineralogical chair but promised if you got it, to with hold for the future more of the contempt he had been endulging in against the university professorships'. RJ does not think WW should give up the Mineralogical professorship for the Lucasian since the former is tenable and the latter is not. Hence if WW wants to stay in Cambridge and get married, as he has always maintained, he should stick with it -'If moreover you are ever to give way to Peacock I had rather it were now than on some future occasion, because to say the truth, I am intimately persuaded more you will get it now and that if Newton himself were to come to life as a plain Master of Arts the heads would give it to French without hesitation and perhaps with an additional relish from the mere weakness of the job - I say this without any ill will to Peacock - there are not many men I wish better to - I am supposing you to be sure of the mineralogical'. If Julius Hare is not in Cambridge RJ is willing to come and listen to WW's thoughts. WW should not wait to hear from Herschel and would himself have a better chance than Peacock and King for the Lucasian Chair - 'I do not know why but Peacock is not popular in the University'.

Aldeburgh - Is surprised to hear he has never been to Brussels; comments on the political situation, thinks the League of Nations, like Socialism can only succeed when human nature alters; worries about unrest in the East after the defeat of Russia by Japan; saw [W. H. R.] Rivers while he was at [A. C.] Haddon's, and mentioned his championship of Elliot Smith's theory of diffusion; gets much attention from spiritualists sending brochures, etc., has agreed to review a 'huge and repellent book' of exudations of 'psychic matter'; wishes Frazer could have noticed his book ['Magic in a Name'] in the 'Observer'.

Acknowledges that the word 'revolutionary' as used by himself and fellow Americans has a different sense to that of the word used in a European context. The adjective, he explains, pertains to a period in history, rather than to social changes, such as occurred in France at the time of her revolution. Explains that the Federal Constitution 'has hitherto owed a great deal of its strength to the popular reverence for the "revolutionary" statesmen, that is, of the Revolution.' Maintains that a future decline in such reverence will have a major affect on government 'that you in England will regret some day, having encouraged it.' Expresses the wish that he could have explained the above face-to-face, and expresses his gratitude to HS for having read his book. Laments the fact that they leave the following day 'and sail on Saturday'. Praises the weather and the scenery. Passes on his regards and those of his wife to Mrs Sidgwick.

Trinity College - WW has been waiting for RJ's catalogue of required books. He has made a few purchases including 'the book which I recollect right you were most impatient for. Its title is England's measure by foreign trade etc..written by Thomas Mun of Lond. merchant. 1669-' Although the book might not be what RJ wants since WW recognises 'some of the sentences as what I have already seen in some of your pamphlets - particularly an enumeration of the qualities of a good merchant, and a hypothetical statement of exports...What I have made of it appears in a great measure very clever and sensible excepting the conclusions which he draws from his reasonings'. He has also another book entitled 'The unhappiness of England as to its trade by sea and land truly stated... ' by Charles Povey, 1701. WW also has 'the prize essay in 1755, fellow to the one which you have got, is A view of the manner in which trade and civil liberty support each other by Wm. Hazeland.' WW will send them to RJ. John Herschel has sent RJ the French periodical work which came from Edinburgh. The Cambridge fever has killed five Johnians.

Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Dated 12th August 1913 - Thanks him for his notes on Penuel and Peniel, but reminds him it was Pethuel they were looking for; her Norwegian friend Mr Heiberg described bonfires in Norway on Midsummer's Eve; is enclosing two accounts of native customs from Behar; Mr Fallowfield, the engineer in charge who starts the engine, describes having wreaths hung about his neck.

40 Marine Parade - thanks him for his Letter to Gladstone, wishes to see him, itinerary for the winter and spring

Explains that he has been occupied with various affairs since her letter arrived, including 'presenting D.Litt. candidate for Degree, and organising lunch party in Corpus for [his] indefatigable brother in law Archdeacon [Edward] Wilson....' Announces that he goes the following day to Haslemere to work with 'HGD' [Henry Graham Dakyns] 'at the remaining letters of his series which [they] had not time to finish' when he was in Oxford. Asks Nora for any other letters that she is able to send him, since he now has time to spend more time working on them. Informs her, confidentially, that his retirement [as Tutor at Corpus Christi, Oxford) is now fixed for Easter 1902. States that he shall keep his Readership, and also his 'A.E.W. work' [Association for the Education of Women in Oxford]. In relation to Frank [Sidgwick], declares that he is 'no scholar', and that he [Arthur] has 'never had any illusions about his Tripos.' Announces that he is writing to Mrs [Eveleen?] Myers. States that he kept the books because since he returned his proofs to the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography he has heard nothing, and thought it possible that 'he might require a revise, which might mean reference to the books again.'

(Marked at the head of p. 132, ‘Kept to show that ll. 18–19 were at first correct.’)

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College | Cambridge
2 March 1930

My dear Gerald,

There will be a bedroom for you on Saturday. Let me know when to expect you.

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 2 March.

(With an envelope.)

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Trinity College
3 March 1927

Dear Semple,

I should be glad to know what your commentators say about umbra {1} smaragdi Sid. carm. 11. 24.

Yours sincerely
A. E. Housman.

[Direction on envelope:] W. H. Semple Esq. | St John’s College [At the foot] Local

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The envelope, which bears a 1½d. stamp, was postmarked at Cambridge at 10.45 p.m. on 3 Mar.

{1} The word appears at first sight to read ‘unibra’, but the dot is almost certainly a fleck of dirt embedded in the paper.

(Oxford?)—Suggests further examples of books containing illustrations.

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Portraits 1660-1700 usw {1}

Cowley 1668
Ormida 1667(?)
Dryden 1700?
Temple 1720(?)
Clarendon 1701
Waller

[*To the right of the foregoing list is written:] Many of these are fine engravings by Faithorne {2} etc.

RWC
24/12/26

RBMcK

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{1} ‘und so weiter’ (German), i.e. ‘etc.’

{2} William Faithorne the elder.

Refers to a passage in Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir describing a golfing accident involving Sidgwick when a boy [p. 5].

Abstract of a letter dated 9 Dec. 1769. Relates to the investigation into the murder of William Dighton by counterfeiters, the Cragg Vale Coiners.

Meeting to be held 'in Mr Harrison's Long Room' at eleven in the morning.

With note from Caroline d'Andreis.