versity of London, for letters and for allowing me to examine sev-
eral of his cartoons of A. E. Housman.

To Mr. E. Slade, Senior Dean, St. John's College, Oxford, for
the right to publish the Francis Dodd portrait of Housman.

To Trinity College Library, Cambridge University, for permis-
sion to study the Housman fair copy of A Shropshire Lad and to
quote from The Name and Nature of Poetry.

To the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, for the privilege of
examining the fair copy of Housman's Last Poems.

To Mrs. Joan Thomson Charnock, daughter of Sir J. J. Thom-
son, Master of Trinity, and to Mr. Andrew S. F. Gow, Tutor of
Trinity College, both of them long-time friends of A. E. Housman,
for conferences at Cambridge, and for valuable letters which gave
me information.

To Colonel R. K. Morcum and his niece, Miss Darrent, and to
Colonel C. L. Wood, of Fockbury, Worcestershire, and Broms-
grove, Worcestershire, respectively, for permission to enter and to
study Housman's early homes, in which they now reside.

To the University of London for permission to quote from Hous-
man's Introductory Lecture ( 1892), and to Cambridge University
for permission to quote from Housman's Inaugural Lecture ( 1911)
and to quote from Housman's The Name and Nature of Poetry
( 1933).

To The Bromsgrove School, Memorial to A. E. Housman, (by
Katherine E. Housman Symons, A. W. Pollard, Laurence Hous-
man, R. W. Chambers, Alan Ker, A. S. F. Gow, John Sparrow),
five hundred copies of which were published ( November, 1936)
for permission to quote material.

I also have to thank the following publishers for their permission
to quote certain poems and passages: Henry Holt and Company,
from The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman; The Oxford Press,

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