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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.

The work referred to on the envelope is J. O. Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, first published in 1847. The papers in Add. MS b. 74/5–6 may have been collected for the purpose of improving that work.

14 Sydney Street, Brompton, S.W. - Was awarded a small civil list pension some years ago; Sir Emerson Tennent planned to reapply but died shortly afterwards; asks if Milnes will sign the Memorial on the subject drawn up by Mr Halliwell with the support of Lords Lytton and Stanhope.

Two letters to the Master, both 12 Feb 1861; envelope recording those who have seen the letters, with dates from 15-18 Feb; two copies of letter to the Master and Fellows.

Provides the background to a packet of MSS relating to the Halliwell trial he obtained from the solicitor Mr Fuller.

Further correspondence concerning MSS missing from Trinity Library found in the British Museum.

Further correspondence relating to MSS missing from Trinity Library now in the British Museum.

Explains that several MSS missing from Trinity Library are in the British Museum, and asks for their restoration.

Several MSS missing from Trinity Library have been found in the British Museum, and those at the Museum state that they bought them from Halliwell. Asks for an explanation as to how they came into his possession.

Includes letters by J. O. Halliwell, J. M. Heath about the August 1846 storm in Cambridge, H. Montagu Butler about a bust of Archdeacon Hare, Vernon Musgrave about a memorial to Archbishop Musgrave, with a draft from William Whewell to Vernon Musgrave.