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Trinity College - RJ has not yet told WW what he thinks of his 'Theophysics' ['Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology', 1833]: 'it much concerns me to know what you think'. Because 'the dogmatical and deductive spirit of the present generation of economists it appears to me that it might be worth while to cut their meat for them and stuff it in their mouths that they might masticate it after their own fashion...your great business is to teach what is true, and will be so when Ricardists and McCullochites have become like Aristotelians and Canterians now are'.

RJ has been unable to get to the City before today: 'There will be no dividend due till the 25th of March. One was paid in Nov not long before the purchase of the shares'. RJ advises on where to deposit the papers and receive the dividends.

Originally containing 41/123-124.

Correspondence, including recommendations. Hannig was based at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eiweiss- und Lederforschung, Munich, West Germany.

'Biochemistry of nervous system'.
'Carcinogenic hydrocarbons & the sterols (Prof. Cook)'.
'Holmes. "Cell pathology" '.
'Chemical aspects of protein study - final revision'.

Hill House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire - Asks for permission to use excerpts from 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' and 'The Golden Bough' in a collection of poems and passages on dreams and sleep. A pencilled note at top: 'Permission given'.

48 Campden Hill Square - Congratulates Frazer.

Postmarked Camucia, Arezzo, addressed to Trevelyan at Pensione Palumbo, Ravello (Salerno). - Thanks Trevelyan for the postcard; imagines he is now settled at Ravello. Has just started to read "Galahad" and finds it charning; has also just read "King Lear" and is reading Trevelyan's translation of the "Choephori". [Giustino] Fortunato has given him an account of Trevelyan's visit, which he seems much to have enjoyed.

21, Theatre Road, Calcutta (on University of Calcutta printed notepaper). - Agrees that each poem should be printed on a separate page. Asks if the 'Cambridge Press' is the 'Cambridge University Press'; he had thought that a privately printed book should come out with a press like the Chelsea or the Golden Cockerel who specialised in such things, but Trevelyan is the best judge. Thinks 200 copies will be enough. G. [Marie Germanova] will be glad to see Julian and Ursula. Is finding the weather trying: India is 'a horrible place to live in; nature is never unobtrusive or reticent'.

Postmarked Weybridge; addressed to Trevelyan at the 1917 Club, 5 Garrard Street, W.C. - 'Colonel S--t' [see 3/45] has accepted; asks whether Trevelyan can meet Forster for lunch next Thursday. Took his mother to see the puppets [Gair Wilkinson's show at the Poetry Bookshop?]: liked the monkey and a dragon.

Capt. J.M. Luce c/o Grindlay's Bank, Bombay. - Thanks Trevelyan for the airgraph: the news of Dick Bosanquet's death is indeed very sad. Is well: boredom is 'the worst disease' as they are far from the war; hopes to get some variety soon. Would be pleased to receive Trevelyan's translations of the Bucolics and Georgics [of Virgil] and read his prose essays ["Windfalls"]; asks if he has put poetry aside. Praises Rex [Warner's] book "Why Was I Killed". Hopes it will not be long before he reads Mat Arnold in Trevelyan's library again.

Trevelyan's confidence in Waley's 'scholarship and accuracy as a translator', and praise of his translations for lacking 'irrelevant echoes of English poetical rhetoric and technique. The words only are English; the spirit is Chinese'. The gathering today is to give sympathy and whatever help they can to the Chinese people in their current 'terrible and undeserved trials'; to sympathise, it is necessary to understand, and literature is one of the best ways of 'understanding the character and the mental qualities of a people'. Waley's work as a translator and 'historian of ideas and culture' cover over two thousand years of Chinese civilization; he has recently published a translation of "Monkey", which dates from as late as the Ming Dynasty. Thirty years ago, Trevelyan spent a few weeks at Pekin [Beijing], and visited the Temple of Confucius with a Chinese friend, Mr Kung, who was he thinks a 60th generation descendant of a cousin of Confucius. As a southerner, Kung had never before visited the Temple, 'from which the tablet of Confucius had lately been sacrilegiously removed by Yuan Shi-k'ay' and was much moved; Trevelyan felt awkward as he had always 'ignorantly thought Confucius a 'rather tiresome, pedantical sort of moraliser'. Now however, having read Waley's translations of and writing on Confucius, he realises his wisdom, humanity, and sense of humour.

Handwritten text to be given after Waley's reading, commenting that his 'quiet unemphatic' reading style is well suited to the poetry, and inviting the audience to ask any questions they may have. Has also been asked to draw the audience's attention to the interesting 'exhibition of contrasted Chinese and English art' upstairs.

[The British Hospital, Wimereux.]—Was disappointed not to receive a letter from him today. She spent the afternoon with Frances, who thinks her plan [to marry Montagu] excellent. Hopes he will enjoy himself at the Wharf.

(Misdated 30th.)

Peterborough Deanery. Delighted by H M Butler's winning the English poetry prize, instructions how to read his piece.

[Printed at top: George Cukor] - Forwards something by Dan Sullivan, not sure what he is getting at; [Mike?] Medavoy told him of his talk with PS, hopes Ray Stark will be effectual; poor Snell [?].

John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, Her Majesty's Theatre - A self-described fan letter, reminding him she is Juliet Mills' mother, and went to see 'Equus' ('Marvellous') with Burt Lancaster, John couldn't see it as he's in 'Good Companions'; 'how far you've come from "Five Finger Exercise"'.

Essentially notes which have become detached from their original context or ones that are not readily identifiable.

With note by Bernard Babington Smith, 15 Jan 1976.

Thanks him for his letter. Declares his advice to be good, and states that he is disposed to adopt it. Quotes Alexander Pope: 'To err is human, to succeed Divine', and Francis I: 'Tout est sauvé [ ] l'honneur'.

Has just finished reading Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, and thanks Nora again for giving it to her; reading it 'has been like living with old friends over again. Remarks on how Henry's 'unique character shines out of that wonderful series of letters from early days to the patient givingup of all that life means in the last dozen....' Notes also that at the end he was not tired of life; that he wanted to live, and had Nora by his side. Recalls Henry at Mentone, 'and then through the [ ] of years until that last pitiful sight of him in the nursing-home....' Suggests that the love he won from his friends was his best gift, and declares what good company he was. Has a letter he wrote to her daughter Katharine 'in the last weeks of her engagement to Charles Furse.' States that she has Katharine and her boys with her now. There is an exhibition of Charles' work at the Burlington Club Rooms in the following few weeks, and they will probably go to it.