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Letter from John Manners
Add. MS a/55/12 · Item · 1 Dec. 1846
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London - Are any 'distinguished foreigners' attending the celebrations surrounding the the tercentenary of the foundation of Trinity College? JJM would like the Spanish Prince - H.R.H. the Count de Moutemolia - to come.

HOUG/D/D/13/5 · Item · 26 Jan. 1881
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

On embossed notepaper, 3 Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park. - Thanks for kind estimate in 'Notes on Endymion' [in the Fortnightly Review]; regrets Houghton's allusions to G. S. S[mythe], and 'that most rascally outrage on private life, the Lives of the Strangfords' [the Lives of the Lords Strangford..., by Edward Barrington de Fonblanque, published in 1877]. Endymion is an old name from Lady Beaconsfield's family.

HOUG/E/M/20/6 · Item · 11 Aug. 1858
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

1 Duncannon Street. - Has lately joined the business of his uncle [Lewis Vulliamy], whose last great work was Dorchester House in Park Lane for Mr Holford. Seeks recommendations for architectural work; remembers meeting Lord J. Manners at one of Milnes' Sunday breakfasts: 'He is a Leviathan in our Profession'; Mansfield Parkyns might also offer commissions. Remembers Milnes' kindness when together [on the Nile?]

Add. MS a/40/86 · Item · 22 Feb 1879
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Letter from Henry Bradshaw at the University Library, enclosing Aldis Wright's 'draft memorandum about the Copyright Report'. Took the two drafts to the Vice-Chancellor [Edward Perowne] and to the M[aster] of Emmanuel [Samuel Phear]; the Vice-Chancellor asked for Wright's memorandum to Lord John Manners. Bradshaw has done so, copying it to send, and also taking a copy for himself.

Wright's memorandum is headed 'Copyright Commissioners' Report Memorandum'; Bradshaw has added 'Sent, with a letter. to Lord John Manners, Feb '21, 1879, H.B.'