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Papers of John Anthony Crook
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Notebook titled 'Italian quartet'

Records visit to Rome, Naples and Florence in July [1947] on a Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibition, with John Ferguson, Henry Pelling and Ron Shepherd. With some others notes.

'Historical sources S2'

Notebook. 'The Classical historians. What they really said. Aristotle: Athenaion Politeia.' Inscribed 'J.A. Crook Coll. Div. Joh.' List of contents on cover. Notes in pen and pencil, with later additions. Notes on Aristotle, Suetonius, Dio Cassius, Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus and Hadrian.

'Aristotle'

Notebook. Inscribed 'John A. Crook Coll. Div. Joh.' Notes in pen with some additions in pencil. Peterhouse T.W. Dunn translation prize paper for 1936 enclosed.

TLS from Iain Hamilton, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

On his return to South Africa he found Crook's largely bleached air mail letter. He is preparing a paper on naval intelligence during the second world war, in particular how personal friction led to 'muddle at sea'. He suggests that an intelligent and seemingly engaging young man called Harry Hinsley might be a good source of reference material.

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