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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

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.

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.