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Regrets that he cannot come to visit Sidgwick in Cambridge that year. Explains that he could not leave home before 16 December, and that [Francis Warre?] Cornish is coming to stay on 20 December. Invites Sidgwick to visit him on his way to [John Jermyn?] Cowell, or after his visit. Informs him that if he comes soon after Christmas he will find [John Burnell?] Payne there, and probably Dr [David?] and Mrs Rowland. Mentions that [Oscar?] Browning might also pay a visit. Describes the search for water by 'young Okeden', and how it was discovered that an underground stream to a well in the village ran from north to south. Reports that the 'Tennyson boys' told him that the Times reported that their father had changed college 'in consequence of a quarrel with her bread and butter'. States that Tennyson was in no other college but Trinity.

Includes Lionel Tennyson's verse "Annotated edition of uneasy lies the head that wears a stolen hat, an unhappy story" with a note by H. M. Butler dated 1901 identifying the author and circumstances. Another poem from J. H. R. to M. S. K. [James Henry Ramsay to Mary Scott Kerr] is dated 1861, and a postcard to Mme. F. Galton in Cannes is unsigned and dated from Florence, April 14, 1893.