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Glad to have news of Dublin from Miss White of Alexandra College; Provost of Trinity College Dublin's evidence to a Commission, and inaction about Alexandra College; do dedications to St Patrick at Heysham, Lancashire, show that he was shipwrecked there in the 'desert', not in France?

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Who is the Coptic scholar with whom Dr Atkinson is dealing? Where was the article?

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Agrees there should not be a long Parliamentary adjournment, 'in face of European turmoil'

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Thanks for interesting enclosures: sure that Government would not consider such a proposal

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A speech copied out of Hansard for Lord Lansdowne; glad Lansdowne is recovering from his operation

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Lord Kitchener went to France before they could find out the decision in the case of Sir F. Stafford; could Lansdowne say what the next step will be?

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German Athenaeum Club wound up under Trading with the Enemy Act 1916, so there would be no public report

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Encloses letters, hopes Lansdowne will consult on 'This most urgent and important subject'; intention to publish opinions for and against of 'some of the best minds'; the book to appear 'in all the languages' - contributions, when received, in 4 or 5 leading European and American journals; hopes Lansdowne will take part; list of British contributors

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Lansdowne to keep a copy

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If he outlives Stephen, he will publish any unfinished book by Stephen, without making alterations; he would not like to execute the biography of Stephen: would leave out much intimate matter; Stephen should leave detailed instructions; 'I should like to think that the men who read your books would know a little of your devoted love and your sorrow.'

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Glad he thinks Darwin's book 'The tides' worthy of translation into Hungarian; publication to members of the Society should be in two years; Murray will supply illustrations virtually at cost and send a copy of new edition; German translation has some additions by Darwin as an appendix

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Sends proposed additions for his book: drawings to follow; glad that translation is finished; seeks research references

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Wishes to correct a wrong date [of Galileo's blindness] in his book; glad to meet Kövesligethy at Strasbourg

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Received the book: thanks for Kövesligethy's hard work; it is better than English edition; Italian edition proposed; it would be good to have the manuscript of his changes and additions

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Presenting letters

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He wants to refer to Lithgow's book of travels which he lent her

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Scope and Contents Butler's problem in reconciling 'the common duties of your profession with the higher instincts of your nature.'; Blunt will not blame him for taking paid employment in the Army; Blunt has never been 'a peace at any price believer'; but the British Empire presently recognises only self-interest, due to 'mongrelising of the race through the admission of all sorts of foreign elements into our body politic.'; Blunt belongs to a 'remote generation' and has 'no business to be living at all in the...

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He well send 'Saladin' [a horse] when Butler gives the word; sends a copy of his Irish book

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So overwhelmed by disasters in Turkey that he has been unable to write; Butler thinks of returning 'Saladin'; Blunt did not breed him, so he has no knowledge; his Irish book is appreciated in Ireland, not in England; the 'Gaelic American', New York, prints weekly extracts; he feels he has wasted thirty years in a lost cause, freedom in the East

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Invitation to Butler to visit

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