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40 Weymouth Street - congratulations to George Blakesley on his success at Eton, quarrels only with the clergy

40 Weymouth Street - pleased at Blakesley's canonry

London Library - Captain Black has taken a ready furnished house at Hingham but intends to rent Donne's house at Mattishall, attitude of the people of Bury St Edmunds to his move to London

Weymouth Street - Mrs Child has not found the missing wrist stud, Archbishop's motion about the Irish church was not successful

40 Weymouth Street - London pantomimes, colonial government

40 Weymouth Street - case concerning Charles Donne and Faversham, Frederick Donne and his wife visiting

40 Weymouth Street - thanks him for the help he gave Charles Donne, Charles' preaching, meeting with "the Dean"

40 Weymouth Street - report of a visit to Faversham

40 Weymouth Street - would like news of Ware, comment by FitzGerald on the quality of Blakesley's Herodotus, visited Cromer with his daughters, Frederick Donne has a son born at Aden

40 Weymouth Street - suggestion for tuition in farming. a fall on slippery ground

40 Weymouth Street - Blakesley's article in The Times on the correspondence between George Ill and Lord North, Charles Donne commended by the Archbishop for his work at Faversham, has been helping the Lord Chancellor on the Theatrical Licence Bill

40 Weymouth Street - has applied to become Librarian of the House of Commons, visit to Faversham

Love's Sacrifice, the laziness of schoolteachers, benefits of a classical education, "accursed competition" at Cambridge, end of the old world

Has written to Dr Harrison, govemors of Greenwich Hospital, pleasure at George Blakesley's marks in the classics tripos

40 Weymouth Street - London Library closed for cleaning, forwarding Guizot's Essais sur l'histoire de France, Mrs Baynes' book, Gladstone losing his temper

40 Weymouth Street - dividends on stocks, consols left for heirs, Frederick Donne repaying his debts to Donne, Petumber "kicked out of the Bombay Rialto", annual survey of 35 theatres, death of a man caused by falling down theatre stairs

40 Weymouth Street - V[alentia] and Donne dined with the Archbishop who is not looking well, benefits of having whooping cough and measles when young, meanness and stupidity of radicals over Princess Louise's dowry, Civil list

40 Weymouth Street - will advise Mrs Blakesley and Lady Miller on plays, did not think that he would live to be "one of the most celebrated and unpopular men of the day", Done attacked in Bell's Weekly Messenger, "snobbish and impertinent" letter from Lowe's Private Secretary

40 Weymouth Street - congratulates Blakesley on becoming Dean of Lincoln, Donne's sons are accident-prone

40 Weymouth Street - apologises for turning Blakesley away in favour of Shakespearian reading, Donne's last time at the society, few members have no notion of reading, Gladstone may promise the abolition of income tax "I wish he would keep it on; it is a very handy tax and cheap to gather-in"

40 Weymouth Street - Oxford Reformers of 1498, prefers Erasmus to Luther and St Jerome to St Augustine - "Augustine and Luther seem to have plunged the scriptures into a tub of vitriol", will have to look for a cheaper house

40 Weymouth Street - wants Blakesley to get a notice of his Tacitus in The Times, Valentia was much invigorated by Switzerland, visit to Mrs Wentworth Leigh, cleanliness and virtuousness of Lord Leigh's peasantry

25 Weymouth Street - financial difficulties of "Smith", ceasing to be examiner of plays has cost Donne £200 per year and stopping writing for periodicals a further £100, meeting with Johnson to explain Smith's position

25 Weymouth Street - thanks him for the [wedding?] gift for Valentia, prospect of war in eastern Europe

25 Weymouth Street - Blakesley's marriage settlement, Charles Donne to wed Augusta Rigden of Faversham

25 Weymouth Street - mistake in personal accounts, Charles' wedding

Enquires as to whether he should draw Blakesley's dividend, met George at the Savile Club, St Paul at Rome by the Dean of Ely, St Paul in Damascus and Arabia by George Rawlinson

25 Weymouth Street - paid Donne's account at Mortlock's in Cambridge, health of Trench, Trench's Medieval Church History, grandchildren, Sellar's Roman Poets of the Augustan Age

40 Weymouth Street - arrangement of Donne's visit with his family, "Willie" has not yet visited

40 Weymouth Street - companionship of Blakesley