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Re memorial to Robert Burns

Letters to Lord Houghton from: Elizabeth P. Bright, 14 Dec. 1884; Mary E. Bright, 4 Jul. [1885?]; Samuel Whitbread, 29 Aug. 1884; George Melly [between May & Nov. 1884]. Also a letter from Edmond Scherer to Henry Arthur Bright, 11 Jan. 1881.

Re memorial to James Henry Leigh Hunt.

E[ast] I[ndia] C[ollege]. - Struck by Milnes' essay ['The Menace of War in Germany'?]; suggest corrections, including a heading, 'The Conference at Dresden'. Postscript: 'Bright says Brooks experience does not warrant the hope of an entire recovery, in a case like [?] Palmy's'.

16 (2): Letter from Robert Temple to H. A. Bright, 7 Apr. 1872

Ashfield, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. - Has now read Monographs; interested by depiction of social change as much as the subjects themselves; might get to London for a 'life-bath' next week; hopes General Fairchild will contact Houghton. Postscript. - encloses epigram which belongs of right to Houghton. Enclosed: Verse, 'A Refectory', copied by H. A. Bright.

2/2: Extract from letter from Charles Eliot Norton to H. A. Bright, 21 Apr. 1862, copied by Bright.

177: Letter from George John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley, to Henry Arthur Bright, 21 Jan 1869

Ashfield. - Values book for its own sake and as proof of friendship; it is reviewed in today's Athenaeum. Has given letter to General [Lucius? Fair]child: his advice on ship-cruelty will assist Houghton towards a decision. Missed showing the Sailors' Home to the King of the Belgians this morning.

Referring to the legend of the Pied Piper and the lost children of Hamelin.