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Carrig Brear, Howth, near Dublin. - Does not think Lord Lytton's interest in FitzGerald was linked to his connection with India.

3 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, W. - Has never seen the original of the letter from which an extract appears in the Blackwood article on FitzGerald, nor the extract until it appeared there. Is surprised his father, 'usually so accurate', made such a mistake. Sends F. H. Groome's address, and has sent on Quaritch's letter to Groome as he himself knows nothing of the matter.

3 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, W. - Quaritch will remember his father, having purchased his library; sends on a catalogue [for the library of Robert Hindes Groome]. Archdeacon Groome was a good friend of Donne's father and of Edward FitzGerald.

London Library - on how to teach his son, recommends mental arithmetic to be followed by the study of geometric forms, linguistic education should begin with French, Donne's own proficiency at school. his work on Tacitus

Concerned about writing a reference on the character of Elizabeth Gedge for Mary Gibson of Worlington near Mildenhall with a reference in verse

Thompson's fellowship, Donne has turnpike bonds which he is prepared to sell to Thompson, has hardly recovered from seeing Charles Kean's Macbeth, has begun his printer's copy of his Tacitus, "Bibliotheca" promised to adopt a new approach to classical texts

Mattishall - received notice of the birth of Blakesley's son from Mr Chambers

Mattishall - Blakesley's comparison of lawyers with plasterers and painters. visited Great Snoring to see if it was "a desirable prospect for a fat rector"

Glad to become a trustee for Blakesley, will try to find the lost paper of Bunsen, disappointed that Kemble was not elected [University Librarian], wishes him happiness in his marriage to Miss Holmes

Mattishall - viability of the British and Foreign Review. thanks him for obtaining examples of teaching methods in Birmingham and elsewhere, date of meeting of minor canons at Westminster, annoyed at Henry Johnson for not using the lawyer that he recommended

Mattishall - capacity of theatres, Blakesley's notice on Mill and Newman, Sterling grievously ill, children now lodging at Norwich. Vipan much recovered

House of Commons - difficulty in finding a "well qualified man for the post", favourable description of Donne, Heaps does not wish to direct his studies in the direction that the post requires

Mattishall - death of [his wife], will visit Blakesley at Brighton, wants to leave Mattishall

Mattishall - Miss Blakesley's illness, Lawrence's sketches, Vipan returning to London, Johnson doleful about his degree, wishes to lend Johnson an atlas of the ancient world

Mattishall - thanks him for the lithograph of Trench, Arnold has been retracing Hannibal's journey across the Alps, protectionism of Peel, reviews of Hegel and Mill in the British and Foreign Review written by an Apostle

Roman history has been published, Henry Johnson's ambition to be an Apostle

Mattishall - whole family have been suffering with scarlet fever, is to be published by the UKS, Mattishall no place to spend winter, well served by the library at Norwich, Vipan's travels in Europe, cousin Manning rusticated for shooting an air-gun in the College, such a practice was done by Humphrey of Caius, claimed that FitzGerald had taken the position of Chief of Police in Suffolk

Mattishall - whole family have been suffering with scarlet fever, is to be published by the UKS, Mattishall no place to spend winter, well served by the library at Norwich, Vipan's travels in Europe, cousin Manning rusticated for shooting an air-gun in the College, such a practice was done by Humphrey of Caius, claimed that FitzGerald had taken the position of Chief of Police in Suffolk

Too ill to travel, has met Miss and Mrs Holmes, made a member of the Gaol Committee, Macaulay's Lays Of Ancient Rome, prefers Macaulay's view of Roman history to Arnold's. denouncement of hydropathy

Busy with election, expects bribery and intimidation

Mattishall - has received proofs of some of his Roman history, Whigs in Norfolk have become Tories

Bank Street, Norwich - had no vote in the election for High Steward but campaigned on behalf of Lord Lyttelton, "Lord Lyndhurst had evidently a strong influence on the corrupt affections of the country", agitation of the Chartists at an emancipation meeting, concern
about his Roman history

Thanks and apologies for keeping books so long, joint undertaking with Merivale [? on Roman history], H. J. Rose has given up his biography of [?], has a phaeton, discussed Roman history with Arnold

Box and portfolio arrived safe, Vipan has returned to England ill, his mother has taken him from the care of his homeopathic doctor, compares the quality of the German race c AD 10 and c AD 400

Mattishall - will meet him at Dereham, coach liable to be late, problems at a Church of England education meeting, would like mathematics books and a catalogue of German philological and classical works, Vipan's manuscrip:

Plymouth - Blakesley's fellowship, Barnes working hard and his health is suffering accordingly, Aristotle and the importance of rhetoric, injustice of the forcible establishment of the protestant church in Ireland, Whately's writings, requests news of Donne

Introduction to his cousin [Henry Johnson], thanks for the volume of Aristotle, disappointed with the New General Biography, has not heard from Trench, awaits the return of Vipan from Hungary

Mattishall - understands that Blakesley cannot visit for the christening as he has to go to a wedding, would like to contribute to work on Roman literature, Norfolk suffering at the hands of central government, children still have to be baptized

Mattishall - Wishes to christen his children when Blakesley visits