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...descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From one respectable generation to another Boswell's manuscripts mouldered, first in Auchinleck Castle, then in Malahide Castle, Ireland, whither Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, transported them...
...what he wanted, he has one of the world's best collections of 18th Century English literature. Like other collectors he had heard of the Malahide papers. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia's famed dealer, had cabled a bid of $250,000 for them. Lord Talbot had appeared at the U. S. Consulate in Dublin carrying the cable like a soiled handkerchief, had sniffed: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond with me. We have not been introduced...
Collector Isham was a onetime lieutenant colonel on Sir Douglas Haig's staff, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He sent no cables but appeared at Malahide Castle in person, and over the teacups the deal was done. Isham had promised Lord Talbot not to persuade the family to sell anything, and he stuck to his word. But when Lady Talbot asked him if one of the papers (a letter from Goldsmith) had any value-"What sort of thing? A hundred pounds sort of thing?" -and he replied, 'I think ten times that more like...
...Harding is not nearly so heroic as usually. Perhaps there is too much martyrdom in her characterization of Mrs. Talbot. But it is difficult to be ungenerously harsh on a really good, tear-jerking performance. Margaret Lindsay does so well as a cold, hard, feeling less woman that we are inclined to forgive her unfelicitous roles of the past. Thus "The Lady Consents" is an admirably cast melodrama of matrimony which you mustn't miss...
Richard Ellis Bennick '38, of Cambridge, who finished second in the Sophomore competition, becomes Freshman manager in 1936, Junior Varsity manager in 1937. Henry Shippen Goodhue '38, of Boston, becomes Intramural manager next fall, associate manager in charge of tickets in 1937. Talbot Jones Taylor III '38, of Long Island, N. Y. finished fourth in the Sophomore competition...