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Includes the Corinth Canal and Athens, showing various scenes around the Acropolis, including the Erechtheum and Tower of the Winds (both inspirations for Quinlan Terry's designs for the Maitland Robinson Library).

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Includes photographs (personal and commercial) from Guthrie's trip to Turkey, 1933; glass lantern slides taken on expeditions to Asia Minor, 1929-32; album of photographs from Turkey and Greece, including the Corinth Canal and Athens; slides from time at Downing College as Master and (individually titled) from holidays to the UK, Greece, Europe and North America.

Scope and Contents 81 glass slides in two wooden boxes, marked in hand on the outside 'Slides for talk on Asia Minor'. Includes index to (most of) the slides on three sheets. One box contained numbered slides and a corresponding indexed list, including additional slides which appears to correspond with some slides in the second (unnumbered) box. Some of these are similar or identical to plates in the published 1933 volume relating to the expeditions. Where possible, titles are those from the handwritten...

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Includes reviews relating to Guthrie's various books etc, including 'In the Beginning', 'The Greeks and their Gods' and his multi-volume 'History of Greek Philosophy'. Also includes drafts and copies of speeches made to Schools etc.

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He had been to see the film of the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands. He had found the choice of music interesting and thought "a lot might be done to push the inernationalisn of art as a prevention of [post-war] unpleasantness between countries." He had been to visit Gow who would be examining him in January and been to tea at Girton to see Babbie Gough who was visiting and Gillian. With envelope.

Scope and Contents Adele and the children have been home for nearly three weeks and their parents had been to stay but had returned to London for a youth meeting their father was to take at Church. After the big bombings of London began, he had travelled to London to check on them after hearing no news and found them ready to leave, with the house on the corner of their road 'blown to bits'. Their parents were now staying with them in Cambridge which, apart from the occasional alarm, was so far spared from the...

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He had had a nice chat with Donald, one of the Fellows, about the difficulties at the start of an academic career. Also includes a description of a recent walk with Eileen, a close female friend. With envelope.

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Thanking her for sending a presscutting regarding Cross and Sandbach, two classical fellows in his first year at Cambridge. In his final year, he is changing to 'double supervisions' with [Francis] Cornford for philosophy and Robertson for 'Comps' (literature). He is considering both history papers and going to see Adcock at King's for advice. St Columba's church has been redecorated during the vacation and his new furniture makes his room look cosy. With envelope.

Scope and Contents He had received a letter from Kit (a friend who had later been killed in an avalanche the same day) which was a shock. He is heavily involved in the wedding plans for the reception at Peterhouse on 10 June, as Adele can't give orders to the College kitchens. He describes their new home in Conduit Head, a wing of the main house belonging to Francis and Frances Cornford, with a garden which used to be the orchard part of the Cornfords' garden. For their honeymoon, they have booked a trip to...

Scope and Contents He enjoyed the recent 'Country Life' [Katharine was involved in the magazine] and says his sister has got the wrong impression of his friend Brayley. He had invited Sir Evan's grandson (also at Trinity) for lunch and liked him very much. He is nearing the end of Theaetetus and is enjoying philosophy. ("This is far more thrilling to my mind at present than the sort of literature most people find thrilling"). He visited Jack Hamson, who was as enthusiastic about Aristotle as ever, and played...

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He had been to see one of a series of lectures given by Maurois in Trinity, on 'aspects of modern biography', in which he had explained why he wrote 'Ariel' and his biography of Disraeli. Apart from tennis four afternoons a week and limited 'idle chat', he is continuing to soak himself in the classics. He will use his own translation of the Aristotle set book in the exam. With envelope.

Scope and Contents Thanking her for her long letter conveying her impressions of Bombay and India. He describes Adele and says they are making plans regarding furnishings for their home - he is doing much extra paid work which will help. Regarding Asia Minor, he will probably not go, although he has yet to tell [William] Calder as, apart from marriage, too much work is accumulating, such as his book. (A later addition to the letter notes that the Near East question is still undecided after another letter from...

Scope and Contents Thanks her for her letter and describes Christmas at home with their family. They had been to see 'Richard of Bordeaux' and 'The Sleeping Clergyman' (a disappointment) at the theatre. He had given his Asia Minor lecture to the Classical Association and (with some modifications) to the Church. Their recent holiday in Hampshire had been relaxing in preparation for the final work completing his book. A final note comments that Bernard Darwin admired her (Katharine's) looks above all others....

Scope and Contents He had attended the service at St Columba's and been visited by the rowing secretary, who persuaded him to try rowing. He had joined the Cambridge Union - K. Lyle, the elder brother, had introduced him - and he had also met Eric Lyle for a walk. Another friend from school - Pascall - was also at Trinity, a 'huge fellow in plus fours and a moustache.' He asks his father if he can open an account with the grocer, as the bedder has told him butter and sugar etc are more expensive from the...

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Letter written from Cannero, Lago Maggiore, describing their holiday there after a long train journey across Europe. (Their train had become stuck in one of the tunnels through the Alps).

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He is sending a translation of the play beforehand as an 'un-birthday' present. He is getting better at hosting tea parties and describes his guest, Gillian. He had gone for a run with a friend Denys and was working mainly on Aristotle on his free Saturdays. He was starting on the Ethics, but 'just at present he seems even more sensible and interesting than Plato'. With envelope.

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He has secured two tickets for the First and Third Ball and describes a dinner and lunch (also attended by Dixen, Mallinson and Wilson of Cambridge) attended by Heppenstall and Bakhle from Oxford. He is finding Plato's Theaetetus 'hard' but 'awfully fascinating' and Plato is 'so all-embracing'. He has been reading essays by the late Times critic A. B. Walkley and R. D. Hicks' book on Stoics and Epicureans.

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Includes a copy of the Greek epigram and English translation by Chapman, that year's winner of the Browne (Sir William Browne's) medal - of which he had also been a recipient. It was a parody after Guthrie fell off a punt. With envelope.

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Scope and Contents His work for the War Office in interesting but hard and he is working eight long days followed by two days off. Adele and the children have now returned from North Wales and he had managed work so he could spend a few days together. He is getting to know London well after living in different areas for work and has seen several exhibitions. There is a smell of wood smoke in the air from the burning of damaged bits of St Thomas's by demolition workers. While he is engaged in war work, the...

Scope and Contents The birth had been much better than their first experience and Anne had adapted well, but they were still deciding on a name. He is about to embark on a cycling trip in France via Dieppe. He gives some information about the three year cycle of positions as Proctor for the University, which he is currently in the middle of, as Junior Proctor. A grace for the admission of women to full membership 'would certainly be non-placeted' (voted against by some members of the Senate). As Junior Proctor...

Scope and Contents His comments about early Christians adopting pagan symbols were mainly the fruit of his Asia Minor travels and conversations with Calder. It was difficult to distinguish between Christian or pagan monuments but Calder had made something of a hobby of this - they had come across a whole village of these during their Asia Minor expedition in 1932. His comments in the book about 'the growth of the simple story of Jesus into the myth of Christ' has caused some comment in Cambridge. He had been...

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He had finished his paper on the Athena hymn, although was dreading showing it to Nock. He had solved an epithet relating to Athena's 'serpent'. Letter from T. C. C. (Trinity College Cambridge), with envelope.