Briggs, Julia, 1943-2007

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"Dear Julia I now understand the first piece--if you'd told me what it was a dedication to when you asked me before, I'd have got there (as well as conjecturing that you'd omitted a word). She had combined allusions to the Vulgate and The Aeneid: Evangel. Matth. 14.6..."

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"Dear Julia 'Habes tota quod usente petiste.' Aeneid IV 100, Juno to Venus. 'You have what you have sought with your whole mind (wholeheartedly)' The scansion shows that Tota must go with mente. Nothing about uifelix in the whole speech. (This suggests that E.N. was quoting from memory, and was indeed under the impression that Dido was the speaker)..."

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"Quitea ne movete etc. I can see this is getting out of hand, but we must do the best we can. Ne and the present imperative is not normal classical usage in prose (to express a 2nd person prohibition use noli/nolite and infin. or ne and pf. subjunctive)..."

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"Quieta non movere. This does not appear, as I'd hoped, to be a recognized Latin proverbial phrase for 'let sleeping dogs lie.' N.B. you cannot express a prohibition like this in Latin - it seems most natural to think of it as dependent on 'videtur' or 'melius est'..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Julia Briggs I read your book 'A Woman of Passion' with much interest. The information regarding Alice Hoatson was of particular concern. As part of my own studies on the history of the education of the mentally handicapped I have encountered her sister Marion Hoatson. She was employed as a teacher at the Metropolitan Asylum's Board School for Idiots at Clapton in 1875 and later became Head Schoolmistress at the Idiot Schools at Darenth, Kent where she remained until her retirement at...

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"Dear Julia, I have looked through my list, and I have no papers at all in the name of Bland. I can only suppose that the letters of which you have transcriptions are in Illinois..."

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"Dear Julia, About five years ago we were in correspondence about JOHN BLAND and I said then that I would try and write you a piece about the Blands in Cairo during the war. My son David, anxious to drag me into the 21st century, has just given me a computer and this is my first effort on it - somewhat experimental, I fear. So if you don't mind being a subject for experimentation, here goes..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Briggs, I have just finished reading A Woman of Passion and feel I must write to tell you how enormously I enjoyed it. I found myself spellbound by the whole book, but in particular by the way you traced the interweaving of Edith's family with her fictional characters. And it fascinated me also for another reason: my friendship with John Bland and his wife Maude, who befriended me in Cairo during the war and who were a great influence in my life. Our friendship lasted till each of...

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"Dear Julia So many thanks for your letter of October 26. I did enjoy my brief visit and only felt sad that at Whitebarn Cecily when not sinking into exhausted sleep was monopolised by Val's Mamar. and of course had filled up the Monday I had set aside for her with appointments (at the PentHouse after a funny little hotted-up lunch they both retired to sleep, until tea time when Cecily and I taxied up to Whitebarn - which we left the next day at 8.45 am!)..."

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"The P.O. in error omitted me from the 1980 - 'S-Z' Tel Directions so make a note of this, on Nov. 12 I sail for Australia and hope to return home (D.V.) 8 April 81..."