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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.

Head and shoulders portrait. From studio of W. T. & R. Gowland, York.

In French.

19 Dec [1850]: enclosed letter to Morton from George Stovin Venables.

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.

Travellers Club. - Concerning alleged bridge of etiquette over a hat belonging to Lord George Loftus.

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.