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Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & reading the Letter to Arbuthnot on Hammersmith Station.'
'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject & it was followed by several readings from his work. Mrs Rawlings read from 'The Rise of the Greek Epic' & H.M. Wallis later also read from the same book. Miss Marriage also read some extracts from one of his volumes of translations'.
'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved
[...]
5 F E Pollard then introduced "The Alcestis" of Euripides by reading from Gilbert Murray's introduction of his translation of the play, Which was read in parts after refreshments the parts being taken as follows Apollo S.A. Reynolds Thanatos C. I. Evans Elders C. E Stansfield & Miss Brain Choros T. C. Elliott Handmaid Mrs Pollard Admetus F. E. Pollard Alcestis Mrs Elliott Little Boy Mrs Pollard Heracles H. R. Smith Phaeres [sic] Geo Burrow Servant S. A. Reynolds'
'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extraordinarily comfortable and the kindness of everyone is past belief. It really was very pleasant to find oneself here with all the trouble of looking after one's own self lifted off one's shoulders. I've done little or nothing but eat and sleep and read novels, of which I found plenty here. Oh yes and I've read all Gilbert Murray's translation of Greek plays — glorious they are — which I also found,[...].'
'There is also a "Greek Literature" by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a "question" and prefers that snivelling metaphysician Euripides to Aeschylus.'