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Bampton, Oxon [Oxfordshire]. - Invites Milnes to become a Fellow of the Literary and Art Guild of St. Nicholas, Tennyson and Dickens are already members; encloses prospectus; aim is diffusion of literature and art; nect publiation will be an anthem composed by R. B. Sankey.

Embossed notepaper, Lamington, Bigger [sic], Lanarkshire, N. B. [North Britain, ie Scotland]. - Sends report of [Literary?] Institute; Milnes must return to Glasgow; adds Latin tag and requests reply; expected Milnes to visit this season; 'Poor Scarbrough: this is a sad result of an active [gymnastic?] existence'.

Albury, Guildford. - Seeking information, as fellow council-member, on the Neophyte Society: has received tiresome letters from James Drake and wishes to sever his connection with the Society - who and what are they?

Encloses letter, 12 Oct. 1857, from James Drake, Secretary and Treasure of the Neophyte Writers' Society, to Tupper. Moor Park, Honley, Huddersfield. - Has no further interest in Tupper's reasons for resigning; councillors should be gentlemen; will treasure Tupper's note as 'the novel production of a great philosopher irate'; threatens to publish correspondene. With annotations by Tupper.

Signed W. S. Vaux, Secretary.

Great Malvern [on embossed notepaper: University, St Andrews, N.B.]. - Inaugural meeting of Wordsworth Soiety at Grasmere last night; lists aims of the Society and some of its members; the Bishop of St. Andrews [Charles Wordsworth] is President. Invites Houghton to join Council, listing other probable members; duties will be light.

Cox gives his address as 33 Percy Street. Note and stamp of receipt at the bottom.

'To a German Friend: on his leaving Sorrento where he was a distinguished Member of a Club'
'Galileo's Tower, Florence'
'Sonnet, To Home - Naples'
'Sonnet' (Wrong'd and ill-fated poet! thou art pas't...)
'Stanzas' (Few, few are they unto whose eyes the wan...)
'Vesuvius'
'Vesuvius - Sonnets 1-IV'

Note of dates covered on front of volume.

15 rue Git-le-Coeur, Paris. - Bill for erotic books bound [?] on Milnes' behalf.

Mattersea. - Re Milnes' appointment as a magistrate.

Ill; unable to attend at York Castle Grand Jury Room.

Full title: Horace Walpole’s Marginal Notes written in Dr Maty's Miscellaneous Works and Memoirs of the Earl of Chesterfield: 2 vols, 4to, 1777. Communicated by R. S. Turner Esq., the possessor of the volumes

On printed note paper, 39 Paternoster Row, London, E. C. - Returns Clements Markham's Ecloge [sic] which is not the paper he had in mind; foes not think manuscript has been submitted to the firm.

Aldenham. - Will send 38 letters from James II to the Abbé de Rancé of La Trappe, as requested: Houghton must judge whether the finished article at over 100 pages would be too long; cannot supply anything requiring a lengthy introduction; the letters contain few new facts about James but have 'a certain psychological interest'.

Incomplete.

Pontefract. - Has offered services to Royal Commission to enquire into cattle plague; previous successes in treatment of dysentery; names supporters; seeks testimonial from Houghton.

Hilton was charged with the Oct. 1839 death of Charles Donally, a fellow inmate at the Hull Asylum, at the Yorkshire Spring Assizes in 1840, but was acquitted on grounds of insanity.

Industrial School, Weston Hill, Norwood. - The child Ryder is overcoming poor health and disposition and beginning to make progress.

6 Hanover Square. - Sends part of forthcoming work on criticism [no longer present] in support of application for the Chair of Rhetoric and Literature at Edinburgh University; seeks Houghton's influence with Gladstone and Sir George Grey; Dr. [William?] Hanna a formidable opponent for the chair; only four and a half months residence required.

From: Herbert Plater (Head Master of Newark School, 6 Mar. 1868); William A. Strange (Head Master of Abingdon School, 6 Apr. 1868); H. W. Chandler (Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, 7 Apr. 1866); Evan Evans (Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, 7 Apr. 1866).

5 York Gate. - His brother Gifford seeks transfer to the consulate at Tripoli as his health is affected by the cold and damp of Trebizond; can Houghton influence Lord Granville or Odo Russell; has sent poems ('stillborn about a fortnight ago') to Fryston; thanks for suggestions; yesterday Frith likened Leighton's Hercules & Death to 'a man struggling with his lay-figure.

In support of claim for the honour of C.B. Copy in Ramsay's hand. With printed minutes and copy correspondence by the Marquess of Dalhousie, Viscount Canning, R. J. H. Birch and W. Mayhew on the service of James Ramsay in the Indian Commissariat dated Oct. 1852 and Oct.-Nov. 1858.

5 Albert Place, Kensington. - Was advised to give up newspaper work by Dr. [Thomas?] Rayner but could not afford to do so for long; would like some post which will not damage his health; would her friend Milnes intervene with Lord Palmerston for the sake of Kenney and his father.