"The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne" by the Revd. Gilbert White, which I read every year and if, as now, I am unwell. The last English writer I truly enjoy.
I also read the Shakespearean tragedies every year, and "Paradise Lost". Byron in poetry.
If sacred works are allowed, De...
Muret-Sanders 1912, a four-volume German-English dictionary and Lewis and Short, the best known Latin dictionary in Britain. Also Liddell and Scott (Classical Greek).
Chrome safety-razor (family antique of the Great War), "Repira" blades, collapsing brush (purchased antique of the same period, badger), D.R. Harris shaving soap (lavender) in family shaving mug.
My own measurements are five feet eight, chest 33 1/2 waist 28, shoulders 17, sleeves 24 maximum, inside leg c. 30.5.
Student at King's College Aberdeen interested in good single-breasted three piece town or country suits of approximately those measurements, which by the admission of one...
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