| Description | /1 Letter from G. K. Chesterton to Oliver Lodge, written from Newmannstrasse 180, Eschersheim, Frankfurt am Maine, Germany, [19--]. Chesterton writes that Lodge's suggestion regarding a position at the University of Birmingham is tempting but he has decided against it: 'If it were a mere matter of giving lectures on English literature I think I could do some good: but as a trainer for examinations etc, I should be at best a second rate man in a first-rate man's shoes - at the worst a wordy humbug'. |