Miscellaneous Literary from Sophie Dupre

sending a "cheque for £20 at my daughter's request. I hardly know what to say about advertising. I have done the whole of my own work without advertising, publishing lists of subscriptions, or anything of the kind. I have always disliked it and thought it ostentatious. Yet some say that it practically pays, and that… Read more about this item

saying he has "received your dainty Book of English Verse on Infancy & Childhood. I am sure I shall find much to enjoy & appreciate in it. I am a bad reader of poetry... but rather tends to make books of selections... I hope that the Oxford visit has proved in every way delightful & a… Read more about this item

(1) 'Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth', ordaining "every Swanherde" to keep "any swannes or signettes... in a pen or pit within xx foote of the common stremes... or... the Queenes highway... so that the Quenes subiects... may have syght of the said swannes, upon payne of xx s", (from the Bodleian Library) (2) 'The Case of Swans', a judgment about… Read more about this item

who has recalled Keble's visit to his father at Nunburnholme, saying "If I publish my lecture I shall try to make use of it", talking of Wales, and suggesting Henry VII rather than Lloyd George as "the greatest man it ever produced... George Meredith used to contend that all the best English poets had Welsh bood in their veins...… Read more about this item

saying "Yorkshire and Beverley are famous spots to dwell in... even if they have not the peculiar tender romance of Wales", referring him for "the sea blue bird of March" to "Hallams full and faithful life of his father", Lord Tennyson, "It is taken from the Greek poet Alcman", he thinks the halcyon "is most seen in March when… Read more about this item

concerning James Form Hartwright, "a late member of our Choir, now at School at the Boys High School, but living in the school House would like to be confirmed this spring. Have you a confirmation in All Saint's Church & could you present him with your candidates? I did some work in the way of preparation with… Read more about this item

congratulating him on his safe return from Russia on Government business, he sends the British Academy's draft report on transliteration of Cyrillic, and asks whether he prefers 'zh' or 'j' on which the committee is evenly divided, quoting the Persian equivalents, 4 side 8vo., 82 Cornwall Gardens, S.W.7., 7th April

the first a brief letter inviting him to tea, the next commiserating with him on missing his first, and telling him that he nearly achieved it, quoting from the examiner "Richmond did some good work but was not quite up to the level of the first class, except perhaps in his history, he came very near it in his… Read more about this item

regretting that they will not see each other as "you are inaccessible every morning & I am engaged every evening. But my regard for you, my respect, I had almost said my Reverence will accompany me to the end of my existence - I have put the paper which you obligingly sent in the hands of Lady Ann… Read more about this item

recommending "Mr E. V. Culme Seymour open Exhibitioner of New College has borne always an excellent character - that he has worked well and steadily and that we have good hopes that he will distinguish himself in the Schools. He has much independence & force of character & should, I think, make his mark & way in the… Read more about this item

(1684 or 1685 - 1765, 2nd Master of Westminster, 1714, Headmaster 1733-1753), headed "D[omin]o Nicol A. Alsop", gently urging him to take a wife, rather in the manner of Gilbert's 'Take a pair of sparkling eyes', but in grammatical terms, talking of singular and plural, perfection in mood and figure, increasing in the genitive (like some 3rd declension… Read more about this item

sending a "2nd Edition of my 'Oxford Reformers'. You spoke so kindly of your interest in the 1st... The chief amplification is the connection between Colet", (c. 1467-1519, Dean of St.Paul's, the great humanist educator) "& Florence & the Dionysian school of thought", 2 sides 8" x 5", Hitchin Bank ('Bank' crossed out), 28th June a little worn… Read more about this item

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sending "the fragment of Sallust [not present]" from the preface to the "Bellum Catilinarium", which, "however feeble the translation", exemplifies "the Stoical doctrines. The beauty of Virtue, & the efficacy of Science are the objects of a glowing panegyric", he also sends "the two first volumes of Shakespeare containing all the prefaces of his editors" among which that… Read more about this item

showing her seated at her desk, half length, turned full face, at her home in Regent's Park, no date, c. The "flimsy" on the verso describes her as "the first peeress to write cinema plays", saying that three of her works "are about to be produced by the Clarendon Film Company".