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They have arrived safely [at Wixenford]. He and Georgie are both all right. [Nugent] Hicks is going to Harrow and will be in Butler's house.

Trinity Lodge. Encloses papers, Smith-Dorrien returned to England [to lead the 1st Army for Home Defence], boys from Edward Montagu Butler's Harrow house up for the "Little-Go".

Welcoming note to Harrow

Headed 'For place of College shoe black'. Browne's address given as 15 Brunswick Walk, Cambridge. 'Still at the Kitchens after 20 yrs service'. Signed by N. M. Farrer, H. V. Barnard, C. A. Sherring, G. J. T. Seckham, G. H. Duckworth, J. W. Cave, C. W. Parry, J. G. Veitch, W. R. Hoare, H. T. Wright and E[?]. M. Butler, all Trinity students.

With stamp of the Chief Constable's Office, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, 10 Aug. [18]89.

Harrow on the Hill. Congratulations on being awarded the Gregory Scholarship.

On headed notepaper for the Harrow Philathletic Club, with 'The Grove, Harrow' added in Robert Trevelyan's hand:- Charlie visited on Saturday, and they 'had a very pleasant day'; he saw 'the school do very well [in a cricket match], and Nigel [Bertrand Nigel Bosworth Smith?] nearly making a 100 runs' and get 'into the XI'. The 'Boz family was in as great a state of excitement' as when Robert's father visited. Charlie's hat was 'broken by a cricket ball'.

The school Greek play will be 'fairly good', but he does not think the English one [Poole's Paul Pry] will. Thinks the Don Quixote will suit him 'very well', as 'all [he wants] is to read it, and some of the pictures are amusing'; must not read it now and waste his time. Asks her to tell his father that he has 'met the Old Harrovian with the Majenta [sic] scarf whom he met at York station': Cook, 'an old Welldonite' [Thomas Percy Cooke?], whom Robert believes was 'rather a friend of Charlie's'. Met him yesterday at supper with Welldon, after 'reading for [his] last time' in Chapel.

Hears his father is coming on Thursday; asks if he is also coming on Speechday. 'Ted[d]y Butler is a beak here for a short time while Owen is ill'. Moss also 'is ill of influenza'; Robert is 'very sorry for him'.

A group of 63 letters received by J. R. M. Butler after publication, many from friends of H. M. Butler and J. R. M. Butler as well as members of his extended family. Some of the letters include personal recollections of H. M. Butler. Correspondents include Frances Anne Conybeare, W. J. Conybeare, D. H. S. Cranage, J. A. Cruikshank, Randall Davidson, Albinia Donaldson, T. Field, Edward Graham, Alan Gray, Charles Haddock, John Charles Hill, Sir Arthur Hort, David Macdonald, H. H. Montgomery, G. C. Moore Smith, Edith Wendell Osborne, R. St. John Parry, Godfrey Phillips, Ernest M. Pollock (Lord Hanworth), John Ross, Ronnie Ross, A. E. Shipley, Henry Yates Thompson, George Trevelyan, and P. N. Waggett.

Family correspondents include Sir Cyril K. Butler, Diana Butler, Dorothy Butler, E. M. B. Butler, Sir Geoffrey Butler, George Grey Butler, John Butler, Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, Ralph L. G. Butler, Marie Gray, Antonia Greenwood, Hugh Howson, David Morley-Fletcher, A. Francis Norman-Butler, C. L. Ramsay, G. M. N. Ramsay, Susan E. Ramsay, and Audrey Tower.

[96 Rivermead Court, Hurlingham]. Inscription for Edward Montagu Butler's memorial tablet.

Edward Montagu Butler.

Rogate. Death of Edward Montagu Butler.

Bath. Prefers the family portrait of H M Butler to the ones at Trinity.

Bath. Is unsure what to do with the portrait of H M Butler if Trinity does not want it.

Bath. Portrait of H M Butler given by Harrow to the Butler family which he looked after while he was at Harrow.

Near-miss of a German bomb.

Drought has broken, Arthur Mathews is in Scotland while his ship, which engaged with The Bismarck, is repaired, coal supply.

Praises Wavell and Cunningham as real geniuses.

Near misses by German bombers

Guy Butler given a commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment, A K Mathews next in line to be padre on a ship, enquires what should be done with the portrait of H M Butler given to the family: [Beach House, Bitton]

Important questions facing Harrow, question as to whether it will become a day school, Harrow badly situated for transport, list of school houses that Edward Montagu Butler thinks should be sold first.

engagement of Agnes Elizabeth Butler to Arthur Kenneth Mathews, AKM working his way around the world: [Beach House]

Death of Hugh Howson.

notes concerning H M Butler, assumption that H M Butler did not succeed Arthur Stanley because of a dislike of him by Queen Victoria erroneous: [Coombe Grove, Monkton Combe]

Combe Grove, Monkton Combe, near Bath: "Laus Deo!"

Combe Grove, Monkton Combe, Bath: Discusses the headship at Harrow, thinks Cyril Norwood would be best.

Congratulates J R M Butler being made a Governor of Harrow, need for young Governors.

Coombe Grove: heard that Gladstone always intended to make H M Butler Master of Trinity.

Is sorry J R M Butler was not elected, H M Butler and the poor.