Copy dated 1856 on cover, but drawn up 22 Aug. 1853, by J. [?] F. Delmar, 7 Lincoln's Inn Fields. Indenture between John Broadhurst and Thomas Ambrose Shaw. Pencil annotations to heading alters it to 'Abstract of title of Lord Macaulay's Executors to Holly Lodge..'
With the addresses of Messrs Gibson and Strathern, W[riters to the] S[igne]t; Messrs Lindsay Mackay & Howe and Messrs Tods Murray and Jamieson.
List of books - accounts, exit and redit books etc - with Wren Library reference numbers assigned to each. MS pencil note at top, '(Most) 1932 now in Muniment Room (behind Clock)'. Pencil annotations state which books remain in the Library, with the initials 'AH' [Arthur Halcrow?]. MS pencil note at bottom: 'Most of these volumes are stored in the Tower muniment room (behind clock). Nov. 1932 C.B.H. [Cecil Baldwin Hurry]'.
3 Storey's Way, Cambridge. - Thanks Rouse Ball for sending him the Cayley MSS, which he is very glad to have. Was at school with Cayley's son Henry; remembers doing Latin prose with him, and the 'various mathematical adventures' they had together; regrets not hearing of his later life.
Barton upon Humber.
On headed notepaper for Rollin & Feuardent, 61 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.
Villa Syracusa, Torquay.
A journal recording his work as Master of Trinity College, with notes on letters sent and received and in addition, drafts of 74 letters, listed separately according to the page number of the journal on which each letter begins. An index in the hand of Janet Douglas is tipped in at front.
Labelled 'Rt. Honble Thos B. Macaulay'; calculations on inside covers and first and last pages.
19 Birchin Lane, London, E. C. - Everyone was pleased to see him when he came home 'which made it a little better coming back'; has just written to his sister sending the £1 so now everything is settled. The pictures of the 'Scandal' [FitzGerald and Joseph 'Posh' Fletcher's schooner] and FitzGerald's house 'have been very much admired'. Mr Wylie though he was looking much better. Thinks it would 'please Uncle Edward [Byles Cowell]' to hear how he has spent his holiday; will write and tell him.
Notes on German vocabulary in Edward FitzGerald's hand on the outside pages of the letter.
30 La Fayette Place.
In Isaac Todhunter's hand, listing letters dated 1831-1864.
'No. 29. Quiver with Arrows from Otaheite. Gift of Capt[ai]n Jam[e]s Cooke 1775'
Records the purchase of 4 and a half yards and a quarter from Obadiah Wickes and Daniel Radford at 'the 3 Nunns & Hare in Cheapside' for 1 pound 17 shillings.
Trinity College, Cambridge. - Accompanying [Christopher] Wordsworth's three red books which are kept in the Lodge'; says he can 'add the accompanying MS and notes which relate to them', given to him by 'Wordsworth of Salisbury', Christopher Wordsworth the Master's grandson.
Published as Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review.
Title written on inside front cover. Copies of letters dated 15 and 27 Jun. 1834.
Translation into Ancient Greek of Tennyson's Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur, lines 133-146. Labelled on the back of the sheet '''16' [in pencil]. 'Gk Verse Comp. Benson | (Fellowship Examination Oct. 1852)'. Annotated [by Francis Martin?] in another ink '1852 | The actual Exercise sent up purloined (!) by Fra. Martin one of the Examiners'.
Read at a meeting of the Brynmelyn Literary Society on 26 Feb. 1894
1 sheet (with two following) is headed 'List of MSS missing in May 1838. Copied from the brief in the case of Trin. Coll. v. Brit. Mus. [1845-1847]'