Jeffery Lewins wrote
> Porfessor Pinney writes: in a letter to his sister in 1932, Rudyard Kipling
> speaks of his pleasure in receiving an honorary fellowship at Magdalene and
> that he can wear a "decent stuff gown". Pinney ask if this is a recognised
> quotation; he has checked, he tells me, Shakespeare - I suspect either
> Pepys or pseudo-Pepys.
Doesn't sound like a quote at all to me, just a standard
description. Could almost be from 'Emma' but sounds
earlier. Visiting an 85 year old Cambridge don a couple of
months ago, he used the term 'stuff' proudly of his 60
year old gown, so it might be recent or been in use for a
long time.
(Should we have a couple of symbols on our list to precede
a response if one wanted to clairy one's position?
'P' responses - professional or informed ones;
'A' - amateur.
The above is amateur. :-) )
John Cram
Prof W J Cram
Dept of Biological and Nutritional Sciences
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
Tel: +191 222 7886
Fax: +191 222 8684
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