Jackson, Henry mss., 1862-1919
Papers of Henry Jackson at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana
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Summary Information
Repository
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Creator
Jackson, Henry, 1839-1921
TitleJackson, Henry mss., 1862-1919
Collection No.
LMC 1547
Extent
6 items (1 folder)
Language
Materials are in English.
Abstract
The Jackson, Henry mss., 1862-1919, consist
of letters to and from Henry Jackson, 1839-1921, Regius professor of Greek at Cambridge
University.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Henry Jackson, 1839-1921, was Regius professor of Greek at Cambridge University, a post
he was appointed to in 1906, following Sir. R. C. Jebb. Born in Sheffield, he became a
fellow at Trinity College in 1864. He was interested in university reform and voted for
women's degrees. After 1879 he became one of the editors of
The Journal of Philology until his death.
Scope and Content Note
The Jackson, Henry mss., 1862-1919, consist of letters to and from Henry Jackson,
1839-1921, Regius professor of Greek at Cambridge University. These letters include one
to his brother Percy on March 28, 1862, in which he discusses The Classical Tripos which
he had taken in February and was ranked in third place. A note appended to the letter
gives all the rankings.
In 1908 Henry Jackson suffered a severe illness and on November 30 his friend John
Maxwell Image wrote to him about his associates at the High Table at Trinity College,
Richard Dacre Archer-Hind and Basil Edward Hammond, among others.
In 1910 Jackson received letters from Sir James George Frazer on July 19 pointing out
the low state of his financial reserves and reporting on the progress of his research
for the enlarged Golden Bough; from Ingram Bywater on December 4 about attending the
funeral of John Egton Bickersteth Mayor and suggesting that Jackson should write his
obituary; from Arthur Platt on December 28 in which he proposes A. E. Housman's
name to replace Mayor as the Latin professor and goes on to comment on his reading of
Aristotle. To Platt's letter Jackson appended a portion of his reply on January 7,
1911, that Housman's name had also occurred to him.
In July 1919, Jackson was honored on the occasion of his eightieth birthday and his
retirement as Vice-Master of Trinity College. The response to the Master, Sir Joseph
John Thomson, dated 19 August 1919, here present was copied by John Waynflete Carter in
1959 and published in the R. St. John Parry book about Jackson on page 116.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The letters were removed from
R. St. John Parry,
Henry Jackson, O. M.
, Cambridge University Press, 1926 (Lilly LF704.J3
P3), a volume which had been given with the letters to John Waynflete Carter by Sir
Henry Jackson. 1975
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Preferred Citation
[Item], Jackson, Henry mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Container List
Jackson, Henry mss.
6 items
(1 folder)
