Letter, from W. O. Miller (? former College servant) at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (U.S.A.), to Master (Edward Atkinson), describing the journey from Cambridge to Milwaukee. Gives detailed description of his family's journey by steam ship and train. Includes descriptions of storm at sea, American scenery and occupations, oil industry in Pennsylvania, a slaughterhouse in Chicago, and buildings and public institutions in Milwaukee.
Note: Thomas Tyrwhitt's plans, elevations and sections were published in _The Builder; in addition to the originals (with the Clerk of Works), Clare College was supplied with a set of offprints: some of the latter hang in the Bursar's office, 1993; others are Acc 1986/ 6: OS 5/ 8/ 10 and Acc 1986/ 6: Maps 2
Congratulates Herbert on his engagement, visited Cambridge, George Sassoon working in Pye's scientific instrument factory, Visit with Dennis Silk to Stratford on Avon. Geoffrey Keynes visited and took away Rupert Brooke letters, Evelyn Waugh writing a biography of Ronald Knox
Arrangements for visiting Cambridge. News of Dennis Silk and Rolf Barber.
On his conversion to Catholicism.
Had a cricket net - thought form quite decent. Dennis Silk now a shooting man. Geoffrey Keynes resigned his trusteeship of the Rupert Brooke papers [?]
Gifts books of his poetry to Herbert
Opinion of the Suez crisis. Visits from Dennis Silk, M. Melhuish, Robin Marlar and S.C. Roberts. Review of Sequences in the Sunday Times. Repairs to fabric of Heytesbury House.
Arrangements to visit Bristol