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Buckingham Palace. - The Queen will be 'very grateful' if Lord Surrey continues 'to procure flowers for her Rooms and Bouquets, as [he has] so kindly done, till now'.

There are 10 letters from Thomas Carlyle, and mixed in with the dinner invitation replies, three other letters to Joseph Edleston: from William Edleston, A. A. Vansittart, and "Carolus Priamus". The dinner invitation replies are all for the dinner held in honour of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the new Vice-Chancellor of the University on 6 July 1847, and are mostly addressed to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College.

Visit of Queen Victoria to Eton

Accompanying a medal in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

Pink blotting paper used to dry ink after Queen Victoria signed her name, showing the name in ink in reverse, faintly showing the right way around on the reverse side of the blotting paper.

Abused in the Record, called on the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria

On printed notepaper for Holmville, Methley, near Leeds. - Carriage accident prevented him reaching Fryston; will Houghton contribute a preface to a volume of sermons by Robert Collyer of Chicago, which is to be published by Mr Walker of Leeds; asks how the sermons may be placed before the Queen. Collyer writes warmly of Houghton's visit to him in Chicago.

Sudbury Rectory, Uttoxeter - The Queen has requested, through Archdeacon Tattam, an authentic memoir of the late John Camden Neild. Does WW know anything about his career at Cambridge - JB thinks he was at Trinity College. The Works of King Alfred the Great may not come out due to want of support.

Visit of Queen Victoria "made us very idle", lunched with the Bishop of Ely, hears that JHM's portrait has been engraved, has bought Thirlwell's Greece from Deighton

New Eton men at Trinity, Queen to visit, has entered his name as a Fellow Commoner, Thorp has rooms ready for him

The papers relate to the visits to Cambridge by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1843 and 1847, primarily the latter, when Prince Albert was installed as Chancellor of Cambridge University.

[10 Downing Street]. Thanks H M Butler for his sermon on Queen Victoria's death, encloses his speech on same (wanting).

Windsor Castle

Album containing over 250 letters, notes, documents, unaccompanied envelopes, printed items, and photographic prints carrying the handwriting and/or autographs of sovereigns, prelates, government ministers, peers, authors, and Trinity College masters and professors, with a few unusual items in addition. The material appears to have been largely culled from the correspondence of George Peacock, his wife Frances Peacock, her father William Selwyn, and her second husband William Hepworth Thompson, with a few unrelated items. Most date from the 19th century but there are a few items from the 18th century.

Among those represented are King George III, Charles Babbage, E.W. Benson, the 15th Earl of Derby, the 7th Duke of Devonshire, W. E. Gladstone, Lord Houghton, Charles Kingsley, H. W. Longfellow, Lord Macaulay, Sir Robert Peel, John Ruskin, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, and William Whewell; there are in addition a miniature handwritten Lord's Prayer in a circle no larger than 15mm across, a carte-de-visite photograph souvenir 'balloon letter' from the Paris siege of 1870 with an image of the newspaper 'La Cloche', and a photographic print of Lane's portrait of George Peacock.

Thanks his mother for her letter. Is 'glad Papa saw the Queen', and wonders what she is like. The Eton boys came on Tuesday, and Wixenford 'licked them 1-0'; Robert was 'in the eleven'. There was a paper chase on Wednesday, which was a 'very good one'; Tomlin was 'hare'. As well as eleven Eton boys, three came from Winchester, and played on the Wixenford side. S[ackville?] West came yesterday; Robert thinks for the last time this term. Sends love to all.

Episcopal reduplication, to accompany Queen Victoria to Florence, drama of German politics.

AS's servant, John Sheldrake, 'a well conducted boy' has asked him to write to WW on behalf of his father; who wishes to be a candidate for Pocter's place in Trinity College. Sheldrake claims his father 'is a good and sober man - that he is 46 years of age - and that he has always had a good character as an honest and obliging man'. Isabella Sedgwick is now almost well [see AS to WW, 3 June 1862]. AS's health in general is much better. AS went to Windsor Castle 'and had a long and most touching interview with the Queen'. AS was very impressed with the sanctity 'of her sorrow; by her beautiful self possession; by the large views of her duties; by the great expression of her love and good will to her fellow creatures and subjects; and by the firmness of her faith - she said that she wished to see me again on Friday' - however she was ill that day. 'In the other qualities of our beloved Queen I ought to have mentioned her wise views of duty, and her deep personal humility'.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. - Has the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' and admires it; suggests a method be adopted to show the geographical distribution of the facts it relates to, either the small maps used by the Natural History Museum or the decimal system of the Geographical Classification about to be adopted by the Royal Society; comments on the general mourning occasioned by the death of Queen Victoria.

Embossed notepaper for the Deanery, Westminster. - Presented poem to the Queen at Osborne; she thanks Houghton.

42 Rutland Gate, S.W. Dated January 24, 1901 - Has the second edition of 'The Golden Bough' and admires it; suggests a method be adopted to show the geographical distribution of the facts it relates to, either the small maps used by the Natural History Museum or the decimal system of the Geographical Classification about to be adopted by the Royal Society; comments on the general mourning occasioned by the death of Queen Victoria.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Envies Robert having heard the Fairy Queen [see 46/254]; Purcell is the 'only name which really fascinates' him in music, apart from that of Mrs R. C. Trevelyan, the effect of allusion to him in Browning's Waring', and of reading about him in the 'list of composers at the beginning of the Anthem-book in Trinity Chapel' as he sat in his surplice like the four or five hundred other young men around him in 'the most impressive Church ceremony (Uncle Tom used to say) except perhaps the Beguinage at Ghent'. Thanks Robert for sending [Lucian's] Peregrinus which goes well with the Alexander Pseudomantis and the On Salaried Posts in Great Houses [whose title he gives in Greek]; considers to be 'the most human pictures of ancient society', and recommends Robert to read the other two if he has not done so. Is going to read gradually through Bergck, except for the Pindar and the fragments taken from ancient grammarians; will use Robert's letter from 1900 with the 'first sketch of a charming little poem on the "roses"'. Good to hear of Robert and Julian's bonfires; cannot remember if he saw their bonfire for the 'second jubilee of 1897' [Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee], which was the best he himself ever saw: the estate was fully staffed, and the estate workers built it forty foot high of brushwood soaked with paraffin.

The Shiffolds, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking. - Here they are 'enjoying the most beautiful weather'. Bessie has gone to London to stay with Molly for a night, do shopping and see friends. They had a 'very pleasant visit' from Aunt Annie, who he thinks will now be with his parents; they thought her 'very well and cheerful, and not too tired by her house-moving'.

Has taken his father's advice [in 12/314] and read [Lucian's On Salaried Posts in Great Houses/The Dependent Scholar, which he had forgotten; it is 'admirable', as is The Life of Alexander [the False Prophet]. Notes 'how modern the point of view is; it might almost be Anatole France'.

Was at Haslemere during the [Diamond] Jubilee of 1897, so his bonfire was 'the one on Blackdowne'; it was a good one, but 'not forty feet high' [like the one at Wallington, see 12/314]. Quotes Aeschylus' Agamemnon 270, 280-281 on kindling beacons in Greek; hopes to publish his translation of the Agamemnon, but [Gilbert] Murray is just now bringing out his translation with the same publisher [Allen & Unwin], so Robert must 'wait another season'.

Sends love to his mother, Aunt Annie, and Booa [Mary Prestwich].

Refers to her 'nice long letter', which he received two weeks previously, and sends on the thanks of Maggie and Frances [his wife and daughter] for all Nora's good wishes and for the pleasure her letter gave them. Hopes that she is well, and remarks that from her description of her life it seems to him that she is comfortable. Remarks also on the 'solemn and momentous incidents' that have occurred since she wrote to him, including [the deaths of] Creighton, Frederick Myers and the Queen. Adds that they all agree that her brother [Arthur Balfour]'s words 'were the noblest of all' [in relation to the Queen's death.]

Says that he is going to get a new map of Egypt [where Nora is travelling?], so that they 'may sit on that high place and see those sunsets - and the line of the mighty river and the E[ ] plain and the distant mountains.' States that he is also going soon to Oxford when Arthur [Sidgwick] 'has settled down and is ready' for him; wishes that 'something [could] be done to release [Arthur] from some of his work'. Wishes he knew what Henry would have advised him to do. Refers to the explanatory note on the numbers of Henry's letters, which he sends on a separate page [included].

Hotel Cavour, Milano. - Very sorry to hear of Elizabeth's 'renewed anxiety' about her aunt; hopes she will not need to return and that her aunt will 'rally'; sad for her and Madame Grandmont to be so far away. She and Sir George have had a good journey so far, and go on tomorrow to Florence; gives their address there, at Rome, and at Naples, where they would be glad to see Elizabeth and Robert before travelling on to Sicily. Sends love to Robert; is glad he is getting on well with his writing, and that Elizabeth likes Ravello. '[D]elightful to be in Italy again'. News of the Queen [Victoria] so bad that they 'quite expect to hear tomorrow that she is dead'. A postscript notes that they have just received the news of the Queen's death.

Four disbound sheets from a photograph album with 18 photographs captioned in Jones' hand, a mix of candid and posed photographs. Two photographs date from Feb. 1901 showing the Great Gate flag at half mast for Queen Victoria's death, and the Royal Proclamation outside Senate House on the accession of King Edward VII. There are also six candid photographs depicting the wedding of his brother Herbert Gresford Jones and Elizabeth ("Lily) Hodgkin in August 1900; two boating images: the 1st Trinity III Lent Boat on the water, and spectators of the May Races in June 1901; two cast photos from "The Magistrate" by A. W. Pinero at the A.D.C. depicting E. Dunkels, C. E. Winter, and Jones in character; three photographs of Lyme Regis; one photograph of Jones and others sitting outside L Great Court[?] with chairs, tables, and drinks, an "all night sitting" in the Long Vacation 1901, another of Jones, K. V. Elphinstone, and J. G. Gordon, and one a posed portrait of the guests at a private dance given by J. W. Cropper in June 1901.

Five letters and one piece of humorous writing from the family of Michael Angelo Atkinson and Amelia Williams, with two letters from Adam Sedgwick in April 1856 about Atkinson and Williams' engagement, to Amelia Williams and to her mother Anna Williams. With two earlier letters: a report on Michael Angelo Atkinson by James Tate to Atkinson's father Peter, dated 12 Dec. 1831, and a letter from M. A. Atkinson at Trinity College to his sister Harriet about French literature. Two more items are written by Harriet Miller, the wife of William Hallowes Miller and a cousin? of the Williams family: one, a letter to her Aunt [Anna Williams?] includes a long description of the dinner held at Trinity College in honour of the Queen and Prince Albert on his installation as Chancellor of Cambridge University in July 1847; the other, a humorous essay about water closets and the loss of the garden privy.

Reports that he has been busy with the election [for the vacant Knightbridge professorship], in which he has decided to stand. States that if he is appointed it will give him a stimulus to work, but claims that he is quite happy in his 'present humble position'; if she does not mind him 'not Succeeding in Life' he is sure he does not, though it is not a virtue to have 'so little ambition', as it is a spur to industry and if he had more it may have made him 'of more use to [his] fellow-creatures'. However, it 'saves one a good deal of trouble'.

Is glad that she wrote and stopped his visit to Rugby on 27 April, and that 11 May 'will do just as well.' Announces that there is to be a meeting of the Rugby Board on 10 May, and that he would like to be with her about that time. Claims to be 'pretty well acquainted with all that has happened from various sources and think[s] that things are going on as well as could be expected.' Is very glad that William received 'the Introductions' favourably. Reports that Cambridge 'is beginning to look beautiful'. Undertakes to contact William when the professorship is decided. Hopes that she has got rid of her cold. Asks her if she has read 'My Little Lady' [by Eleanor Frances Poynter] and reports that Myers wrote to him from Windsor Castle 'that the work has the HIGHEST recommendations.'