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Letters of Jean Babington to her father Thomas Babington, 1806-1832 ; two including notes from her brother Thomas Gisborne Babington to their father, one including a note from her mother Jean Babington, née Macaulay.

Three ketters from Jean Babington to her brother Thomas Gisborne Babington, 1813-1814.

7 Villa Madrid, Neuilly-sur-Seine. - About the sketch of Housman.

One cutting from the Times and one from the Saturday Review, the others from classical journals: Classical Review; Classical Journal; Classical Philology.

1 Grange Court, Headingley, Leeds. - 'Many thanks for your learned and interesting paper...'

Admy. - Sends a paper by Capt. James Ross concerning the tides at the Falkland Islands.

AS thanks EA for her concern. He caught a cold yesterday: 'I know not how, unless it be that I have taken too much care of myself; and with a new cough and a sore throat I must not come out'.

Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds.—Asks him in confidence for a loan of £700.

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Dear Sir

I venture to address a few lines to you which at all events I trust In your confidence In not divulging it to any one you well know how particular my Father is and having some pressing demands on me which should they read my Fathers ears might be the means of his leaving me nothing I have therefore most earnestly to appeal to you If you could do me the service of procurring† me the loan of £700 which I would pay £800 for at the death of my Father or any other sum that would be proper I have no Friend to apply to here or would not have troubled you Oakes {1} would not assist me as we are on different sides in the Corporation

I assure you if you can get It done for me you will save me from ruin I must again {2} that this Is In perfect confidence, you will oblige me much by a line at your leisure & I hope you will pardon my thus troubling you but necessity alone urged me

I remain Dear Sir
Yours very truly

J P Cullum

Northgate street | Bury S Edmunds
October 7th 1813

If I could have It In small sums at different times It would do I earnestly hope that you will exert yourself for me I repeat again I would not have troubled you unless necessity urged me

[Direction:] Dawson Turner Es {3} | Yarmouth | Norfolk

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Mounted on a larger sheet, i.e. inserted into a space cut out for it.

{1] Probably Henry James Oakes, who was elected alderman of Bury in 1829, the year after Cullum. See A Guide to the Town, Abbey, and Antiquities of Bury St Edmunds, 2nd ed. (1836), p. 130, and Al. Cantab.

{2} A verb is missing about here.

{3} Followed by what appear to be the letters ‘ar’.

† Sic.

In an unidentified hand. The tombstone was erected by Simon Hake, her nephew and heir.

Draft of preface and notes dated Apr. 1878 with an additional six slips of paper with etymological notes and two postcards to Wright, one from W. W. Skeat dated 4 Feb. 1878 and another from E. B. C. dated 11 Mar. 1878; corrected proof dated 1878.

(The notice is headed, ‘Prof. A. E. Housman. Famous Lyric Poet and Classical Scholar. “A Shropshire Lad”.)

35 Bickerton Road, Headington, Oxford.—Asks whether there is any evidence of Nashe’s Unfortunate Traveller being read in the 18th century.

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Oxford. {1} February 21st, 1939
35, Bickerton Road | Headington

Dear Sir,

I thank you very much for your kind offer of giving me your advice about some doubtful points in my work about Th. Nash.

As you know, I am engaged in a study upon ‘Th. Nashe and the Picaresque’ in the Unfortunate Traveller. I think as you do that this book is an interesting attempt in a new direction, and though of the same province as the Picaresque novel, equally far from the early English rogue literature (jest-books, conny-catching pamphlets) and the Spanish Picaresque (Lazarillo de Tormes, and later on, Guzman de Alfarache). This seems to me to be characteristic of what is commonly called the English Picaresque with Defoe and Smollett. And I should like to know if there is now any evidence of Nash’s “Unfortunate Traveller” being read in the XVIIIth Century? From your edition of Nash, I see that only pamphlets of his seem to have been known in that time; but is it known whether Sir W. Scott came to be aquainted† with the story of C. Agrippa’s magic mirror (which he was to use in the “Lay of the last Minstrel”, 1805) through this novel of Nash?

Yours very truly
Edgar Kofler

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{1} This word is underlined, not printed.

† Sic.

Two copies, with draft of errata in one.

Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Discusses the sizes and layout of the text.

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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
19th August 1926.

Dear Mr. McKerrow,

Thank you for your kind letter. A good share of the books pass through my hands at some stage though this one is so much in Chapman’s province that he has been primarily concerned on the editorial side.

I wholly agree with what you say about the titlepages. And further, we have proved by experiment, that the small style is the easiest of all. One can toss off any number of titlepages in it which don’t look bad, because it is not until one uses the larger and heavier sizes that faulty design becomes conspicuous. It is amazing how well one can imitate a small modern titlepage on a typewriter, whereas the smallness of a good new face titlepage is exceedingly hard to catch.

Anyhow I have had your alternative set, and think it is an improvement. According to the printer, A shows the first two lines in 18 point, as against the third in 14 point. I am frankly incredulous, but still living in a world of pica etc., I cannot contradict. But under the circumstances I have had it set again with the first two lines a size larger (style B), and I cannot help thinking that it comes nearer the effect of your drawing. Please let us have your comments and don’t hesitate to ask for something fresh. To my eye it still looks a little crowded at the head. But it is a great improvement on the first specimen. I fancy the next generation will weary of colophons and urns repeated indefinitely.

Yours truly,
Kenneth Sisam

R. B. McKerrow Esq.,
Enderley,
Little Kingshill,
Great Missenden,
Bucks.

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Typed, except signature. At the head are the reference ‘3249/K.S.’ and, elsewhere, the letters ‘MG.’

120 East 75th Street, New York City.—Thanks him for a copy of his book, and praises it.

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120 East 75th Street, New York City
November 10—

Dear Dr. McKerrow—

An Introduction to Bibliography reached me safely yesterday and I have already cut most of the leaves and skimmed through half the Chapters—It is a truly wonderful book from my point of view and will be a last court of appeal in all perplexing questions of pure bibliography—I can not thank you enough for writing it in the first place and for sending it to me in the second—

As soon as I got your letter I called up the Oxford Press here and arranged to have them notify me as soon as copies came in. I have heard this morning that they will be available on Monday and I am urging every one of my pupils to buy it. I dont† suppose that will take up more than a dozen or fifteen at once, but there will be others later—

I also take every opportunity to advertise the Review of English Studies which is a great pleasure to me personally—Generally speaking, I like your writings, do some more!

With warmest regards to Mrs. McKerrow and the boys, I am—

Most gratefully yours
Henrietta C. Bartlett

Expresses his delight at the news of the birth of her son [Martin, born 19 August]. Asks her to tell their mother that he shall be grateful to her if she would pay that 'bill of Warwick' for him. Admits that he has been very careless about it. Reports that he saw Mr Dale a week previously, who latter preached at a service attended by Henry and 'gave the unhappy congregation a rest from the pretentious and insolent platitudes of [their] regular man...' Claims that Dale believed that the Princess Frederic William would be present at the service for the first time after her confinement. Reports that he gave him news of Ada [Benson], whom Henry is to see in about two weeks' time.

Announces that after going to Dresden he intends to visit Brunswick with Professor H[errig], who is to introduce him to a society of philologues. States that after that he shall go walking in the Harz and on the Rhine. Reports that he is learning German. Recommends 'Tieck's Novellen' if she wishes for 'an easy and delightful German book' to amuse herself with. Recounts his amusement at the depiction of an Englishman on the Berlin stage. Regrets to hear of Arthur's renewed illness, especially as he is spending the summer at the Lakes. Claims that he has no impulse to indulge in composition at the present, but recounts a humorous story involving a hero and heroine named Edwin and Angelina, who are in love, but for whom it is impossible to declare their feelings to one another. One day they sit down to play the '[ ] duet of Beethoven together', and the music has such an effect on them that they fall into each other's arms, in which position they are found by [her] father. Claims that the foregoing 'is literally founded on fact', and is reserved in his notebook. Sends his love to his mother.

Writes on the death of Henry Sidgwick, claiming that the friend whom he 'admired and respected most of all men that [he has] ever known has passed away.' Is glad that his sufferings are over. Supposes himself to be one of his oldest friends, although has seen him little in the past few years, and expresses his gratitude to Nora for having given him the chance of seeing him again the previous Christmas. Remembers him 'as the freshman from Rugby of whom so much was prophesied...and how he carried off from [him] the [ ] university scholarship for which [he] had been set down in common expectation.' Refers also to a walking tour that they had together, and the interplay of thought and discussion which they shared. States that the world 'can never produce again a mind so absolutely candid or a nature so absolutely sincere'.