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Birchin Lane. - Can Houghton assist Percy [Melville Thornton]?; War Office being filled with NCOs; enclosed letter [no longer present] is proof that Percy would never pass the necessary examination; 'He is one of the best [...?] in England & Reginald says th[a]t on th[a]t account it had been determined to send him into the Church.

Encloses the reply from the Midland Railway. All the new Peninsular shares are sold; there remain 37 old.

Birchin Lane. - Originally enclosing the insurance policy for Holly Lodge.

With black-bordered envelope from the Colonial Office annotated 'Letters H Thornton | about Z[achary] M and TBM.'

Birchin Lane - Sends the printed letter as showing 'how little reason there is for some of the objections raised by Keble & others against his bill'.

With black-bordered envelope from the Colonial Office annotated 'Letters H Thornton | about Z[achary] M and TBM.'

Birchin Lane. - They do not have the receipt for the rent; thinks it will be found 'among the vouchers in the Bankers Books'. Nothing now to prevent effecting sales and transfers.

United University Club, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall. - Recommends Charles Augustus Fennell for Professorship of Comparative Philology at University College. Professor Paley's support. Henry Sykes Thornton has written to Mr Fowler. Fennell was 9th Classic at Cambridge but did not take a mathematical degree owing to illness.