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London - Printed letter, completed in manuscript, signed by Washington. WW elected a Member of the Royal Geographical Society.

Concerning the Julius Charles Hare bust.

WW will not be able to return to Cambridge for the elections due to his ongoing experiment in Cornwall [with George Airy] to measure the density of the earth: 'So pray if you have an opportunity represent to the electioneering people how much more important it is that they should know the weight of the earth, on which all parties tread, than that the weight of Lord P.'s [Lord Palmerston] party should be increased by the addition of unit me' [Account of Experiments made at Dolcoath Mine in Cornwall, 1828]. WW and GA are underground between 8 to 11 hours and seldom dine before 11 or 12 at night. Could JCH assist him with unfinished tutorial business (applications and accounts) while he is away.

Can't find any information on the names of fire making apparatus, and gives the names of fire sticks in the Torres Straits.

Putney - 'Young Burges [Henry Burges] brings you this - I have advised him to come and secure lodgings which he wants quite cheap and near the College'.

Aldeburgh - His wife [Phyllis] is reading the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' which prompts him to recall hearing stories of the 'burning of Judas' custom by Spanish and Portuguese ship crews at Bow.

Concerning the notebooks of Robert Burn.

On the contents and title of Sidgwick's proposed chapter in the Cambridge Modern History. Proposes that it should be called 'Political Philosophy'. Refers to other related chapters of the work, such as that on Machiavelli and another on revolutionary theory in the sixteenth century. Also refers to disagreement between himself and Sidgwick on some aspects of the thinking of Bacon, Descartes and Hobbes.

Letter topics include 'University Legislation', 'College Lectures', 'The Study of English', 'The Classical Tripos'. Review of Origins and Development of Religious Belief by S.B. Gould. Some with annotations. Accompanied by a covering sheet: 'Letters and a Review by H. Sidgwick Published in the Cambridge University Gazette 1868 and 1869'.

WW has been here [the Athenaeum Club] about a week: 'My purpose for the last few days has been and is to appear in a visible form at Brasted on Saturday next when I shall be glad to find you rejoicing and to rejoice with you'.

Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Dated 10 March 1911 - Thanks him for ['The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings']; writes of her visit to 'Tiney' [Christina McCall Frazer] and found her better than she expected, hopes the doctors have it wrong, is glad she doesn't know of their suspicions.

27 Pelham Crescent, S. W. Dated May, 1909 - Thanks him for his kind words about the Introduction [to his Tacitus' Annals XI-XVI'?]; doesn't wonder at Frazer's anger at being accused of conclusions in 'Psyche's Task' that he has not drawn.

Custom House, (Yarmouth).—Accepts the offer of a plate for his forthcoming work (The Picture of Yarmouth).

(Dated Saturday. Full date supplied by Turner.)

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Mr John Preston’s Compliments to Mr Turner, and will most gladly avail himself of his obliging offer of a Plate, which would doubtless stamp an additional Value on his Work {1} especially to such few friends as he is desirous of affording this extra Plate to, and therefore feels particularly favored by his very friendly and polite Offer.

Custom ho.
Saturdy Morng

[Direction:] D Turner Esqr | Banker | Yarm’ {2}

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Dawson Turner has added after the date at the foot, ‘—4 Decr 1819.’

{1} Preston’s The Picture of Yarmouth, published this year.

{2} The mark or letter after ‘m’ is indistinct.

Draft of the preface and notes, with two corrected proofs of the playscript dated 5-29 June 1878, two corrected proofs of the notes dated April-June 1879, two corrected proofs of the preface dated June 1879, and another corrected proof of the playscript dated June 1879.

(On the front of the menu is a photograph of the Great Gate at Trinity. The signatures include those of a number of Fellows of the College besides Housman, including F. A. Simpson, R. St John Parry, Henry Jackson, V. H. Stanton, W. C. Dampier Whetham, Sedley Taylor, R. Vere Laurence, J. Ellis McTaggart, H. McLeod Innes, Gaillard Lapsley, F. R. Tennant, and F. G. Hopkins.)

Public Record Office.—Discusses the arrangement of text.

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Public Record Office
7th Decr 1874

My dear Sir

I agree with you entirely that it would be better to have the notes at the foot of the page of the text to which they refer, but I think that additional lines, if numerous, would be best in an Appendix: this arrangement would represent the Cotton Ms.

Perhaps, however, it would be well, to have some portions set up in type: in one instance placing the notes and additional lines at the foot of the page, and in the other placing the notes only at the foot of the page, and giving intimation there that the additional lines will be in the Appendix.

Ever faithfully yours
T. Duffus Hardy

You had better adhere to the punctuation in the Ms. and discard the modern.

Apartment 303, 120 Central Street, North East, Washington, D.C.—Sends proofs of the Supplement to the reprint of McKerrow’s edition of Nashe.

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Apt. 303 120 C Street NE {1}
Washington D.C.
3 Dec. 1957

My dear Blackwell,

I am sorry if you have been impatient for these proofs. One reason for the delay has been that I have been travelling about {2} a lot lecturing—as far north as Maine & south to N. Carolina & as far west as Missouri. Also I have had to wait until I got answers to several queeries†. But here at last they are, and I hope you will think they are pretty clean proofs.

The Introduction to the Supplement should go before the Supplement. I don’t know if you in-tend a title-page to it, and I don’t know if you intend to page the Introduction or to mention the Supplement {3} in the general page of contents before vol. V. May I leave all this to you?

The cost of sending this to you by air mail—and if I sent it by surface mail you might not get it till after the New Year—is high, and reminds me that I have been put to a good deal of expence for postage. If you felt inclined to make a contribution, will you send £4 (say) to be paid {4} into my account at Barclays Old Bank, High St. If you don’t feel inclined, do nothing and say nothing, and no offence taken (or, I trust, given).

Our time here is nearly at an end, & we begin to drive to California on Jan. 4. I daresay we shall be three weeks on the way, but short of earthquakes, tornadoes etc we should arrive at the Huntington Library by January 25. {5}

Every good wish to you and Lady Blackwell for Christmas & the New Year

Yours ever
F. P. Wilson

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{1} i.e. Apartment 103, 120 Central Street, North East.

{2} There is a scribble in green biro across the words ‘I am sorry … travelling about’, the significance of which is unclear.

{3} There is a cross in the margin, apparently referring to the words ‘A Supplement to McKerrow’s Edition of NASHE’ at the head of the page, which were presumably added by Blackwell.

{4} The two lines ‘of expence … to be paid’ are marked with a line in the margin, in the same bright blue ink as the inscriptions described in the previous note.

{5} Followed by a tick in green ink.

† Sic.

‘to end of *Chr. T.( | See p. 153 | See p. 201 foot’ (all cancelled).