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Two unpublished letters of Housman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Peter Godman
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Extract

The St. Andrews University Library manuscript 36326, containing correspondence addressed to W. M. Lindsay, chiefly on the subjects of Latin palaeography and textual criticism, preserves two communications from Housman, previously unpublished. The first (no. 202, ii) was written in 1901 in the form of a postcard, the second is a letter of 1903 (202, i). I present them as an addendum to The letters of A. E. Housman, ed. H. Maas (London, 1971) and his ‘Additions and Corrections to The letters of A.E. Housman’, Housman Society Journal 2 (1975) 33-5.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1978

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NOTES

1. I am preparing an edition of correspondence to Lindsay in this collection relating to Latin palaeography. On the subject of Latin textual criticism it contains several letters from British and German scholars.

2. This discussion refers to Housman, 's ‘Two Epigrams of Martial’, Classical Review 15 (1901) 154–5CrossRefGoogle Scholar = Classical papers of A.E. Housman, collected and edited by Diggle, J. and Goodyear, F. R. D. (Cambridge, 1972) II, 534–5Google Scholar.

3. The ancient editions of Martial, with collations of the Berlin and Edinburgh manuscripts (St. Andrews University Publications, no. II, Oxford, 1903)Google Scholar. For a later judgement on Lindsay's work by Housman, see Classical papers 1099Google Scholar.