5 York Gate. - His brother Gifford seeks transfer to the consulate at Tripoli as his health is affected by the cold and damp of Trebizond; can Houghton influence Lord Granville or Odo Russell; has sent poems ('stillborn about a fortnight ago') to Fryston; thanks for suggestions; yesterday Frith likened Leighton's Hercules & Death to 'a man struggling with his lay-figure.
(Two messages.)
(Marked at the head by Dawson Turner, ‘Letter from Wm Gifford Palgrave to his Aunt, Mrs Gunn’.)
(Misdated 16 Apr. The date was corrected by Dawson Turner.)
(The verses are ‘Elias in coelum rapitur’ by Walford, dated 3 Mar. 1841 (transcribed 18 May 1843); ‘In obitum condiscipuli’ by Palmer, 26 Feb. 1842 (transcribed 18 May 1843); ‘Somnia’ by Palmer, Id. Apr. 1842 (transcribed 19 May 1843); and ‘A Georgic on Horticulture’ by Walford, 1841 (transcribed 22 May 1843).)