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11A PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON, W.1.
10 May 1921
Dear John,
In rereading that spiderish elegant scrawl - so perplexing to our modern type-script-spoiled eyes - it seems to me that I have made a stupid mistake in the wording. And of course I transmitted the errors to you in my transcription.
Did I put a ? at the end of line 12?
Lines 13 & 14 I am nearly certain shd. read as follows: -
"Hospitium nigris intravit crura cothurnis Indutus? Bellum movit ut ante Venus?"
How could I have made such a muddle? For the words are not really very much alike.
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11A PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON, W.1.
10 May 1921
Dear John,
In rereading that spiderish elegant scrawl - so perplexing to our modern type-script-spoiled eyes - it seems to me that I have made a stupid mistake in the wording. And of course I transmitted the errors to you in my transcription.
Did I put a ? at the end of line 12?
Lines 13 & 14 I am nearly certain should read as follows: -
"Hospitium nigris intravit crura ['cothurnis' omitted] Indutus? Bellum movit ut "ante Venus?"
How could I have made such a muddle? For the words are not really very much alike.
Ambrose is an ass. He would have it there was a movement on foot to have me made an honorary fellow of Brasenose. I cannot believe it.
Just off to Edgerston for a fortnight. If I should be marooned there by civil war shall I repine?
Yours ever
F.S.O.
