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Invitation for WW to join the Society of Amateurs of Art.

Beccles.—Turner’s information about the steam packet has determined Lady Gosford not to use it. Returns Sir Astley Cooper’s letter, along with a brief account of the preparation.

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Beccles June 10

My Dear Sir /

Lady Gosford begs that I would return you her very best thanks for your kind information respecting the Steam Packet, but the account you give of the Norwich one is quite conclusive with her Ladyship against her trusting herself & family to so frail a vessel. She says Lord Gosford will enquire at the Steam Packet office whether or not a vessel could be hired & sent round for the purpose, and that should he not succeed in procuring one, she will endeavour to make the journey by land. She is certainly better within the last week.

I have returned you Sir Astley’s {1} letter with a very short account of the preparation. I have said nothing about my mode of obtaining this beautiful specimen of successful surgery, because the means employed were not quite lawful ones, and, in your Town, might be considered not quite justifiable

With many thanks for your intended kindess to my son Believe me to remain

My Dear Sir, | Yours most Truly,
W Henchman Crowfoot

[Direction:] Dawson Turner Esqre | Yarmouth [At the foot:] By favor of | Mr Willm Crowfoot

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The marks represented by full stops are short horizontal lines.

{1} Sir Astley Cooper.

In account with J [Martin?], Hanover Square.

Draft of the preface and notes, corrected proof of the playscript dated Dec. 1880, corrected proof of the notes dated Oct. 1881, and three corrected proofs of the preface dated Oct.-Nov. 1881.

Longmeadow, Street, Somerset.—Proposes to help pay for the education of his children.

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Longmeadow, Street, Somerset
May 14th 1929

My dear Denis

We are sorry to hear of your disappointment over Hampshire: but it might have been a heart-breaking job to work under a set of reactionary or stick-in-the-mud authorities, as I hear these were. Anyway Shrewsbury, Shewsbury, Shroosbury or Shoosbury has its compensations.

This is to tell you that, in a year or so, when education may be beginning to be an anxiety to you, I intend—if my finances hold good—to make a contribution toward the training of your offspring. There is just one proviso which may stand in the way—though I hope not. If your Uncle Basil’s circumstances require brotherly assistance, he will have to be a first charge on what I can afford. But if that does not happen, I hope to be able to let you have £50 a year while your income stays as at present, and when charges for education begin to get burdensome. If you should come into any inheritance of family money to that amount or more, I should feel released. And of course, if my public began to pay as little attention to my writings as many of my relatives do, I should have to tell you of it and attend only to number one. But so long as my income keeps to about what it is now, and yours ditto, that is what you may look forward to. And if you will tell me when a move on in the educational scale is necessary, I will begin to stump up. I don’t know whether Shrewsbury School takes day boys, but I suppose not till the age of 12 or 14. Meanwhile, what will the stages be? And when will they begin?

I don’t know whether Gerald will continue to exercise his charm on me as he grows older—probably not; I expect it’s a mere flash-in-the-pan, due to tender years and lack of knowing better! but I hope he goes on being good and serene.

Our love to you all.

Your affectionate uncle
Laurence.

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Ruled paper.

Enderley, Great Missenden, Bucks.—Draws attention to a puzzling cancel in an early issue of Puttenham’s Art of English Poesy.

(The month is indistinct.)

St John’s Vicarage, Torquay.—Sends a notebook compiled by his father, containing Keysoe words and phrases and other material relating to that place. Is sending his second boy (Reginald) to ‘try for something’ at Trinity next week.

(Sent with a notebook containing Add. MS b. 74/5/13.)

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St John’s Vicarage, Torquay.
Oct. 28. 1895.

Dear Mr Vice-Master,

I have not forgotten my promise to send you the Keysoe “words and phrases” collected by my father {1}.

I am sorry to find that they are not nearly as numerous as I supposed.

I might have copied them for you, there is in the note-book which contains them a short history of the endowment of Keysoe, &c, which may interest you, as also a map of the glebe and other farms at the end made with my father’s accustomed neatness & precision. There were a great many loose papers of note in the book, from which I conclude that my father intended to write a history of Keysoe. I have left a few there, which might be of interest—the various spellings, the inscription on the Font, and some of the early Views. Where the loose papers are, marks the place where the “words and phrases” begin.

Please use the book as you like, and if it is of any use to you, do not trouble to return it.

I am sending my second boy {2}, now at Westminster, to try for something at Trinity next week. I can’t say how earnest my wish is that he may obtain something. I have a great yearning that my line of the family shall go on at Trinity, but alas! I can’t afford to continue it, unless the boy gets something. He is the last chance. My other boy {3} failed to get anything at Cambridge (he was not good enough to try at Trinity) but got a good Exhibition at Exeter, Oxford; he is, I believe, the first of his family to deviate from Cambridge since Henry Airy (Ayray) was Provost of Queens in 1598. He was not a direct Ancestor, but a collateral of our ancestors.

With much regard, | believe me Yours very truly
Basil R: Airy

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{1} William Airy, vicar of Keysoe, Beds., 1836-7.

{2} Reginald. He was admitted at Trinity as a sizar on 1 October the following year.

{3} William Shepley. He was elected to a college exhibition at Exeter College, Oxford, on 12 May 1894.

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Following an exchange of correspondence with Aldis Wright, they have agreed to do what he wants.

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12/1/75

*Memo[randu]m for Sir Thomas Hardy

We have written to Mr Wright, pointing out an important difference between the position of ourselves and the printers of the Cambridge Shakespeare, and justifying the reasonableness of our request. But, as Mr Wright, in his letter to us, has made it clear that we can do what is wanted with less trouble than we had supposed, we have asked that the MS may be returned, for the printing to be proceeded with without more trouble to Mr. Wright.

Eyre & Spottiswoode
W. P.

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The missing letters of a word abbreviated by a superscript letter have been supplied in square brackets.

On headed notepaper of the Newspaper Press Fund, 24 Cecil Street, Strand, W.C. - Has been directed to communicate a copy of the resolution passed at the Annual Meeting on 28 Feb., moved by George Godwin and seconded by James Mould, that the members of the Fund wish to convey their sympathy and condolences to Lord Houghton at the death of his wife. Byrne expresses his own sympathy in addition.

Testimonials to Taylor, 1905, from: H. J. Spenser, H. Sydney Jones, A. Kahn (all University College School) and J. L. Paton (formerly of the school, but later High Master, Manchester Grammar School).

A theory of the stalling of aerofoils at speeds near that of sound. This became paper T.1636b for Aeronautical Research Committee.
P.1 of paper has many `doodles' by Taylor.