{"id":489,"date":"1908-12-04T00:00:34","date_gmt":"1908-12-03T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?p=489"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T09:25:59","slug":"friday-december-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Friday December 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The World\u2019 one of the papers asked this year for the first time [to the Latin Play], writes to thank for the tickets and asks if it may come down and take photographs so as to have a four (full?) page supplement of it.  They also hope they say, in the same number to publish and interview with <a title=\"Who\u2019s Who?\" href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=23#gow\">Gow<\/a> in \u2018Celebrities at Home\u2019 and have written to him about it.  It is worth inviting the papers if they return the compliment like this.  I gather 45 papers were asked this year, usually only about 24 are invited. <\/p>\n<p>Between Schools, <a title=\"Who\u2019s Who?\" href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=23#hobson\">Hobson<\/a>, <a title=\"Who\u2019s Who?\" href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=23#sargeaunt\">Sargeaunt<\/a> and myself walked up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sothebys.com\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sotheby\u2019s<\/a> to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive-free\/pdf?res=9F03E3DB1731E233A25757C0A9649D946997D6CF\" target=\"_blank\">sale<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/apling.freeservers.com\/Didlington\/Library.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Amherst Library<\/a>.  Not much of the books to be seen but we saw, I think, a Cicero run up to \u252c\u00fa700 before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quaritch.com\/our_history.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Quaritch<\/a> was able to buy it and almost the next book sold for 2\/-!!  I had never been to Sotheby\u2019s before.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Tyssen-Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst_of_Hackney\" target=\"_blank\">Lord Amherst<\/a> was in the background; it must be <a href=\"http:\/\/lh.matthewbeckett.com\/houses\/lh_norfolk_didlingtonhall.html\" target=\"_blank\">very beastly seeing one\u2019s Library being bought up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The World\u2019 one of the papers asked this year for the first time [to the Latin Play], writes to thank for the tickets and asks if it may come down and take photographs so as to have a four (full?) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?p=489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}