Cairo. [ ] Frith's large photographic apparatus has to be carried between two camels.
Cairo. Has a travelling companion in C A Brown, waiting for the return of the dragoman that he has hired, failure of banks making travelling difficult, situation around Petra is deterring travellers, Rowe from Oxford to join Butler and Brown in Syria, recovery of Vesey's pistols, plans for climbing in Sinai, discussion of certain Psalms.
Athens. Catherine Butler's marriage to John Bowen, beauty of the Propylea, corruption of Greek officials.
Patras. Discusses Trinity fellowships and members of the Shakespeare Society at Trinity College. Describes visiting Venice, Tintoretto's "Crucifixion", Milan, Vienna, Istanbul.
Ischl. Introduces George Otto Trevelyan.
Apologises for having taken so long in answering Nora's inquiry about the Cambridge Working Men's College. States that he found out through Canon [Charles?] Gray, 'who was then in residence in Trinity and succeeded Archdeacon Vesey as secretary of the College' that Henry Sidgwick was elected in October 1860, and so deduces that the letter from which Nora quotes was written at the time Henry's work began at the College. Adds that Gray promises to see if he can find anything else, and to send any relevant material to Cambridge to be put into the Free Library. States that he has found three of Henry's letters on matters other that the Cambridge Working Men's College - two written to his [Bowes'] uncle Alexander Macmillan, and one to Professor M[ ], the editor of Macmillan's Magazine - and encloses them [not included].
Bowes, Robert (1835-1919), bookseller and publisher