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This small collection contains: MS volumes with notes on classical subjects, particularly Aristophanes, and historical subjects; the beginning of a work on travels in Africa, and a journal of a visit to Mount Athos; a library catalogue; a manuscript book of verses.

This material forms a series within the additional manuscripts series b, c, and d and are catalogued as Add.MS.b.5, Add.MS.c.1, Add.MS.c.8-12, and Add.MS.d.4-8

The letters primarily contain his thoughts on aspects of various Shakespeare plays: Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, All's Well That Ends Well, Henry IV Part II, and Henry V. In a letter of 28 Nov. 1863 he regrets he has not found more that was worth Clark's attention: "It is the fault of the old editors, who shamelessly adopt one's most original ideas, and publish them a century beforehand, as their own." His letter of 20 Jan. 1863 also explains why he doesn't want the Trinity chaplaincy.

Visit made in Sept. 1861.

Gives the Walker references noted in his magazine, and references in Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

Accompanied by an envelope addressed to Clark with compliments of Macmillan & Co.

Dulwich -- Writes to remind Clark that he should correct the mistake about his edition of Shakespeare; meant to send him some notes but has been distracted with legal worries; sends a note for Cymbeline.

About the "ball" in the ball and sceptre, references Arthur Taylor's work On the Glory of Regalia.

The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regents Park -- Suggests that Clark should print the two versions of Hamlet with commentary which he would find instructive, as he has never seen the whole of the first version except in Hugo's French translation; is sending him the new edition of his life of Goethe in part because Clark liked the original, and in part to show he is not unmindful of Clark's kindness.

The Atheneum -- Provides information about the meaning of a "country captain" in India; shares a conjecture about the first scene of "Measure for Measure".

Concerning the origin of "Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La" as a note on the music lesson in The Taming of the Shrew.

Chancery Office, Manchester -- Sends by railway the MSS on Shakespeare by his great uncle Roger Wilbraham.

8 New Cavendish Str., W. - Is heading to Paris, regrets that he can't construe Shakespeare and that there is no literal Latin prose translation.

School Hall, Bury St Edmunds -- Shares notes on legal terms in The Merchant of Venice.

Sends notes on Lear, and two short notes from Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra.

Gives a history of his work on Shakespeare's plays, and asks for more information about Clark's new edition.

Dulwich College - Thanks him for sharing his unpublished letter to the Times in reply to the Reviewer's reply; shares some notes on King John.

Bishops Court, Llandaff, Cardiff - Points out an error in the Globe Edition of Richard III.

8 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London - Finds two references in the Shakespeare edition to the fact that they have edited out some 'vulgarity' in the text: "how inconsistent it is, after taking such extraordinary pains to ascertain the correct text, to apply an entirely new standard, that of morality or good taste, in a few detached places!"

Notes on texts of Aristophanes' plays, with two letters from Francesco Palermo dated 1867 tipped in at front.

Includes notes from Jean Froissart's Chronicles, edited by Buchon in 1824.

Includes notes on Heinrich Ritter's History of Ancient Philosophy, George Grote's History of Greece, a draft of a paper given on "The Accentuation of Ancient Greek" dated Nov. 12, 1860, as well as a translation of Act I of Goethe's "Götz von Berlichingen".