November 6th 1946, 2 pages, with envelope, from Sussex.
Writing about Keynes "I can quite believe that he made ten or twenty thousand pounds by that remarkable, and in many ways brilliant, and instructive book published immediately after the first Great war. An old City friend of mine says that he burnt his fingers in the City soon afterwards, and I knew people who had lost money in one of his ventures....
"....K is believed to have made most of his fortune by speculations in American securities and real estate. At one time I knew him pretty well and his intimate Cambridge friends. They always said he was very fond of gambling..."
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1923-1930 6 letters in ink with envelopes from New College, Oxford October 5th 1923
"It looks as if any Economist we appoint is not likely to be able to come this term at any rate. Would you be able to help us at all for a term, or possibly a year?..."
October 22nd 1923 "...I suppose there are conditions in which increase of population here might or did mean more output per unit oflabour: it afforded sufficient numbers for large scale production, which enabled us to turn out goods which we exchanged for more food than the unemployed could have produced. No doubt capital increased..."
November 19th 1923 "I'd be mostinterested to meet Keynes..."
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March 22nd 1938, 1 page, with envelope, from King's College, Cambridge.
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March 5th 1955, 4 pages In Ink, with envelope, from 6 Harvey Road. Cambridge.
"... I have been putting together a sketchy history of drama in Cambridge, and have come across a reference to Dr Jowett having built a theatre for Oxford....
"I am expecting my birthday on Thursday-my 94th...
"I have not finished reading the first vol of the Life in Japanese--Are they really going on to the end?"
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January 22nd 1948, 1 page in ink from 46 Gordon Square, London.
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January 21st 1924 2 pages in ink with envelope, from Toynbee Hall, London.
"...I am recording the fortnightly meetings of the currency group which meet here. The company includes Hawtrey & Lloyd, Dalton, Spring-Rice Cannan Keynes are leading discussions. As they all disagree on simple things, it is quite illuminating work to follow their minds...."
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