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With additional note to another of Macaulay's nieces, Jean.

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Is glad he can come.

(Dated Monday. This is a reply to B1/13.)

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18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
Monday

My dear Mr Montagu

I am glad you can come, will you make Geoffrey or Dudley Ward {1} or someone get you a seat at Carnarvon, you will be able to do this easier than we can owing to your exalted position in the government. You have to wear uniform for the show.

Our positions with regards to the Coronation have been entirely reversed, I now absolutely sympathise with your desire to escape it and wish I had gone away, but then I wasnt in the Abbey.

Yours
Venetia Stanley

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Black-edged paper. Marked ‘July 1911’—the year in pencil, the month in green biro.

{1} Both men held senior offices in the Royal Household, Geoffrey Howard being Vice-Chamberlain and Dudley Ward Treasurer.

Royal Pier Hotel, Southsea.—Would like to discuss the Marprelate tracts with him.

(Undated. A reference to the ‘3 Vols’ of the Works of Nashe suggests that the letter was written between the appearance of the third and fourth volumes of that work, i.e. between 1905 and 1908.)

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Royal Pier Hotel, Southsea
Sunday.

My dear Sir,

I am in receipt of your favor† of the 13th last, and shall be glad to meet you—if you will permit me to do so. Will you dine with us on the evening of Friday Week, when we shall certainly be at home. Please reply to Hampstead, {1} as we leave here tomorrow.

I do hope I did not mislead Mr. Greg by speaking too hastily regarding your work. I certainly did not intend to suggest that I had found any “Errors” in your informed & thorough notes. What I do mean to say is just this. I have always taken much interest in the Plays & Pamphlets of Nash, Green, & Dekker, & have never missed an opportunity of acquiring any of them. Of Nash I have quite a goodly lot, including the “Terrors of the Night”. {2}

Consequently when your 3 Vols. came to hand I compared most carefully what you had to say with the Bibliographical Notes I had made for my own Catalogue. I found that the conclusions at which I had arrived did not at all times agree with the deductions you had drawn,—& upon again examining the tracts themselves by the light of your words, I still found myself unable to fall in with your views. This, I may say, is in regard to the Mar-Prelate Pamphlets.

If you will come & chat the matters over with me for an hour after dinner, I think I shall be able to induce you to agree with me. If not, at all events we ought to get at the certain facts.

Very truly Yrs
Thos. J. Wise

I wish you could be induced to do for Green & Dekker what you are doing for Nash! The work is calling to be done!

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Two letters from McKerrow to Wise of 1909 and 1910, evidently subsequent to this one, were among Sir Maurice Pariser’s collection of ‘Wiseiana’, sold at Sotheby’s on 5 December 1967 (see the sale catalogue, p. 116).

{1} Wise and his second wife were in fact at this time living at 23 Downside Crescent, Belsize Park, but Wise characteristically preferred to associate himself with the more fashionable Hampstead, as he did on announcing his purchase of the house to J. H. Wrenn on 2 March 1900. See Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn: a Further Inquiry into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-Century Forgers, ed. Fannie E. Ratchford (1944), p. 180.

{2} Wise’s copy is now in the British Library (Ashley 1258).

† Sic.

34 Oriental Place, Brighton. Is sending H M Butler his copy of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, urges him to have two teeth extracted as prescribed, wishes to know of his examinations:

Thanks Monk for his congratulations on returning from India

Labelled Jan-April 1941 by Julia Fish. Foreign Office internal memoranda mainly written by RAB re his meetings with ambassadors and several semi-official letters

Autograph seeker.

Good character of [Charles Percival], pleased he has visited London. Mrs SP must have found London greatly changed

Cannot readily explain why Southern Rhodesia declared UDI when they had 95% self-government thoiugh he believes Ian Smith was tricked into it. Rhodesia is not a threat to its neighbours, attitude of the blacks to democracy and dictatorship, hopes Kenneth Kaunda gets Britain expelled from the Commonwealth

Encloses a cheque for monies in settlement of Henry's estate

To visit Blomfield, plans for travelling in Europe