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Salonica. - Was unable to visit Mt. Athos in September, so has asked Archimandrite Dionysius of the Monastery of Xeropotami to provide him with the information Aldis Wright requires about [Constantine] Simonides. Encloses the Archimandrite's replies, confirming that Wright's 'suspicions were but too well founded' [Add.MS a/40/97]; has added an English translation since the letter is 'written in rather barbarous Greek'. Asks to be remembered kindly to Dr [W. G.?] Clark.

Balliol College, Oxford. - Account of Dindorf's proposals for the publication of a manuscript by Uranius which was subsequently found to be a forgery by C. Simonides. 'Pertz's information is very curious'; asks if it is 'all an abstract of entries made at the time, since it differs in some respects from Scott's recollection of what was said at the time. Discusses his own recollections, mentioning Bekker, Böckh, Magnus, Lepsius, Bunsen, Ehrenberg, Tischendorf, and Humboldt. Dindorf tells him that Sir T. Phillipps has, amongst other things purchased from Simonides, an extract from Homer 'with an extract purporting that "the Archon of Chios gave this to Hipparchus, son of Peisistratus"; and another of Hesiod, written βουστροφηδόν - !'.

Copy in hand of W. Aldis Wright.

West Derby, L[iver]pool. - Thanks King for the gems, which came back safely, Gives the thoughts of his friend Simonides, 'a man by the bye, hated by your college, especially by Mr W. A. Wright, though as I think without reason] on the gems. The gnostic tricephalous gem Simonides believes has an Egyptian inscription on the reverse, not Coptic; the other gnostic gem he thinks shows a leach and an owl, and translates the inscription as from Egyptian. Discussion of who cut the gems. Simonides can 'make nothing' of the inscription on the zodiacal gem.