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On part of an examination paper on Cicero. Information on most of the seniors added in MS notes beside the pasted-in sheet. 'The Master' is written, rather than Thompson's proper name.

On headed notepaper for Trinity College Cambridge. - Gives Shakespearean quotation, 'an agate very vilely cut', *Much Ado...' II.1.65.

Encloses 'some autographs for your friend, of the genuineness of which I can vouch'; will be glad to help out again in future.

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 papers consist of over 2000 letters written to Henry Arthur Bright from friends, colleagues, and family members arranged in alphabetical order. Principal correspondents include Robert Brook Aspland, William Robert Brownlow, William Henry Channing, Lord Charlemont, William George Clark, Sir Reginald John Cust, Charles Milnes Gaskell, Lord Houghton (130 letters), Charles Eliot Norton, and Spencer Perceval (b 1828). There are also letters from Hungerford Crewe, and the Hawthorne family, but not Nathaniel himself: Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia, and children Una and Julian. Letters to Bright's family consist mainly of photocopies.

The last box contains a few miscellaneous items: notes, an essay on ''The Characteristic Difference between Ancient and Modern Civilization' which was awarded the English prize at Trinity College, and a bound volume containing proofs of Lord Houghton's 'Notes on "Endymion"' and Houghton's introduction to the works of Walter Savage Landor in Thomas Humphry Ward's 'The English Poets 1880-1918, Vol. IV, The Nineteenth Centry: Wordsworth to Rossetti', accompanied by a letter and a note from Lord Houghton.

Salonica. - Was unable to visit Mt. Athos in September, so has asked Archimandrite Dionysius of the Monastery of Xeropotami to provide him with the information Aldis Wright requires about [Constantine] Simonides. Encloses the Archimandrite's replies, confirming that Wright's 'suspicions were but too well founded' [Add.MS a/40/97]; has added an English translation since the letter is 'written in rather barbarous Greek'. Asks to be remembered kindly to Dr [W. G.?] Clark.

Informs Sidgwick that Conington can give him a M[ ] nomination, which belongs to another life governor ['Albert's father']. Expresses his intention of being in Cambridge from Friday 11 [June] to Monday 14 [June], 'staying with Kennedy' and doesn't know if he will be able to meet up with any of his friends. Kennedy has mapped out his [Conington's] time to some extent; e.g., 'dining in Hall with [W.G.?] Clark on Sunday'. Reports that he had a letter the previous day from Munro, 'formally announcing himself.', and that [Henry?] Smith 'had brought back news from Cambridge that he might very possibly not stand after all. Refers to another candidate [Price]. Comments on Munro's article, which he has read. Refers to Sidgwick's paper and the possible reaction of Oxford ontologists to it. Comments on Sidgwick's new Tripos scheme, and admits that he does not know 'what the points' of it are. Refers to the reaction to Latin Verse [in the Spectator]. As regards 'the new Journal', he claims that he has no time for reviewing, and therefore does not undertake to work for it. Concludes by announcing that 'Horace is done, and going to be printed.' [J. Conington's verse translation of Horace's Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica, published posthumously].

48 letters to W. H. Thompson dated 1831-1866, and 1 letter addressed to [John] Allen dated 24 Aug. 1840. Names mentioned in the accompanying calendar of the letters include Henry Alford; John Allen; Robert Leslie Ellis; Edward FitzGerald; Arthur Hallam; Walter Savage Landor; Samuel Laurence; Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton; Stephen Spring Rice; Sir Henry Taylor; Robert John Tennant; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Charles Tennyson [later Turner]; and William Wordsworth. Spedding also refers to his work on Francis Bacon.
With a further 35 letters to William Aldis Wright and William George Clark, dated 1862-1881. Letters to William George Clark date from 1862 to 1864 and relate to collations of Shakespeare's plays. Letters from 1881 to William Aldis Wright relate to Frederick James Furnivall, with copies of Spedding's letters to Furnivall, and one letter from Furnivall to Spedding dated 26 Feb. 1881. Accompanied by a mechanical copy of the Northumberland Manuscript.

Green leather volume, with embossing and gold decoration. Printed illustration from 'Happy New Year' card pasted to inside front cover. Bookplate, 'Ex Libris Bryan William James Hall', with coat of arms and illustration, pasted to front free endpaper.

Numerous autographs, mostly in the form of ends of letters and addresses on envelopes, pasted into book. Notes beneath items (sometimes also pasted in) often identify writers. Complete letters etc have been described in individual records dependent to this one, referenced by their folio numbers; signatures and addressees are referenced by linked authority record only. Some names remain undeciphered or unidentified.

Compiled by a sister of C. W. King, see part letter from King on f. 14r, 'I enclose the autograph of a distinguished Grecian for your book. With love I am, my dear Sister, yours affect[ionate]ly C. W. King'. Although no first name appears, C. W. King's only sister appears to have been Anne, sometimes known as Annette (1824-1874). A letter from W. G. Clark to C. W. King, preserved on the verso of the flyleaf, was sent with 'some autographs for your friend', and there are also envelopes and letters addressed to William Aldis Wright and other members of Trinity suggesting King was actively gathering material for his sister. The bulk of the collection appears to have been assembled between the late 1860s and early 1870s.

Arrangements for a visit by Aldis Wright to consult books at Devonshire House.

'With embellishments by R. E. Thompson, Trin. Coll.', presumably the several humorous ink cartoons.

Predominantly printed material: extracts from journals and newspapers; prefaces; programmes and dinner menus of Shakespeare societies; examination papers; printed correspondence (including between J. O. Halliwell-Philipps and Robert Browning regarding the New Shakspeare Society); frontispiece purportedly from the 1599 edition of Venus and Adonis probably from the 1879 Sotheran facsimile edition. Letters from P. Lyttelton Gell, George Litting, Henry Weston Eve and John Doran.

Notes on Shakespeare by W. Aldis Wright, Sir Philip Perring, Albert Matthews, George Parker, H. P. Stokes, Eduard Thiessen and G. O. Wray. Printed reply by Edward H. Pickersgill to a paper by James Spedding, interleaved with Spedding's MS comments.

Letters (some of those without stated address perhaps originally sent to W. G. Clark) including correspondence from P. A. Daniel, W. G. Fletcher, F. J. Furnivall, R. Markham Hill, C. M. Ingleby; also some draft letters from W. Aldis Wright to various correspondents.