England
1911.
July 1-31
( No 8 )

Cambridge
Magdalen College.
Newton's house & grounds.

  Before leaving Cambridge on the morning of the 11th
I made a pilgrimage to Magdalen College and the little
vine-clad house next it where Alfred Newton lived and died.
The sight of it moved me deeply. Simple & unpretentious yet
very neat & picturesque, nestling almost under the walls of the
college with extensive and wall encircled college grounds filled
with shrubbery and trees and alive with birds at its rear
one could not well imagine a more fitting and congenial
house for him who occupied it so many years. When I
saw it this morning it was bathed in brilliant sunshine
and a light summer breeze rustled among the ivy on its
walls. Blackbirds, Thrushes, Robins and a Chaffinch were
singing close about it. Swifts, Swallows, Martins and
Jackdaws circling over it. Everyone with whom I talked
had known & loved Newton and I was shown a
fine oil painting of him recently hung in one of the college halls.