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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.

Written from 14 Cavendish Square.

On embossed notepaper, St Mary's Tower, Birnam, Dunkeld, N. B. - Encloses letter [no longer present] from an excellent clerk who has had a long training at the Admiralty and seeks a post.

330: Letter from Lord John Manners to Annabella Monckton Milnes

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.

Trentham - returned to Hawarden from Stafford, John Manners "troubled with a diarrhoea of his intellect", church matters

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?]

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.'