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Letter to Mr. A.Stebbing, 27th November 1903
Author: J.W.Cross
Recipient: Mr. A.Stebbing
Date: 14/02/1903
Collection: The Wedgwood, Bastian and Stebbing Letters
County Record Office Ref: CR3989/4/3/4
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Description
In this letter J W Cross explains, in reply to Mr Stebbing's request for J Cross to make a presentation to a Literary Society, that he has only two subjects he feels he can deliver; one on Dante, the other on 'fiscality'. Cross also mentions he is now 'convalescent'. Written from The Grand Hotel, Brighton. Signed J W Cross.
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THE GRAND HOTEL
BRIGHTON
27 Novr 1903
Dear Mr. Stebbing,
I am flattered by your kind note of the 25th inst which has been forwarded to me here. I am afraid there are only two subjects in the wide world on which I could make any contribution to a Literary Society - or indeed to any other Society - in an address. And indeed I am not sure that my contribution would be of much value even on those 2 subjects. The one is Dante. But I am in this position. Some months ago our friends Professor & Mrs. Dicey acked me to deliver a lecture at the Working Mens' College on the great Florentine. I did not see my way to it before Xmas, and I could not now make any arrangement for such an address until I have seen the Diceys & ascertained whether the Working Men still want me. I should not care to give them a reshuffle of an address to the Tunbridge Wells Literary Society - nor vice versa.
The other subject is 'Fiscality'! But I don't think that would be very suitable for a Literary Society & in the present state of acute feeling on the subject it would be difficult so to handle its presentation as not to tramp on the toes of some of the audience with the effect of rousing angry passions!
I am now quite convalescent I hope & I expect to be soon at Tunbridge Wells, probably on Sunday when I will call on you & Mrs. Stebbing to thank you for kind enquiries & we can talk over the address.
Yours very sincerely
J. W. Cross
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