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Baddesley Clinton, Knowle, Warwickshire. -Monographs revive happy memories; delightful gatherings at Houghton's breakfasts would be hard to repeat now; met Fanny Kemble again and remarked on how she stirred memories of old friends, [Fanny] said in her solemn... tone, 'Yes, I must remind you of a thousand Ghosts'. Solicits five shillings towards repairs to the Parish Church here.

59 Montagu Square, W. - Reaction to the news of Edward FitzGerald's death. There 'should be some obituary mention of him', as Crabbe suggests. Would be 'in perfectly good hands' if Crabbe wrote it himself; Pollock does 'not know enough of the Persian scholarship and works' to write it, and recommends Aldis Wright if Crabbe does not wish to do it.

Adds in a postscript that he does not know Mrs Kemble's address, but has asked Mowbray Donne to write to her.

Letter from Trench, has been to see Romeo and Juliet (with Fanny Kemble) a second time, recommendation of Biber's new work, Milman's "notions" about the Jews, would like a copy of Tennyson's poems