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Miscellaneous/Box 5/CH2/2
Unique identifier
GB 275 Miscellaneous/Box 5/CH2/2
Title
ALS to 'My dear Admiral', from St John's College
Date(s)
- 14 Feb. 1941 (Creation)
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2p + 1p paper
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Found among the papers of Prof. J.A. Crook, 2008.
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The Master read his letter to Council yesterday. Hopes the Admiral will resume dining soon. The quotation is from Virgil Aeneid V lines 130 and 131. Would he sign an entry form 'to the Antiquaries' on behalf of Glyn Daniel.
With ALS from Stavros P., Cambridge, to John Crook, dated 17 June 1956, enclosing this letter, which he found in a secondhand copy of Virgil.