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HR did not intend to offend the family and friends of J H Monk

Written from Lincoln's Inn.

Green leather volume, with embossing and gold decoration. Printed illustration from 'Happy New Year' card pasted to inside front cover. Bookplate, 'Ex Libris Bryan William James Hall', with coat of arms and illustration, pasted to front free endpaper.

Numerous autographs, mostly in the form of ends of letters and addresses on envelopes, pasted into book. Notes beneath items (sometimes also pasted in) often identify writers. Complete letters etc have been described in individual records dependent to this one, referenced by their folio numbers; signatures and addressees are referenced by linked authority record only. Some names remain undeciphered or unidentified.

Compiled by a sister of C. W. King, see part letter from King on f. 14r, 'I enclose the autograph of a distinguished Grecian for your book. With love I am, my dear Sister, yours affect[ionate]ly C. W. King'. Although no first name appears, C. W. King's only sister appears to have been Anne, sometimes known as Annette (1824-1874). A letter from W. G. Clark to C. W. King, preserved on the verso of the flyleaf, was sent with 'some autographs for your friend', and there are also envelopes and letters addressed to William Aldis Wright and other members of Trinity suggesting King was actively gathering material for his sister. The bulk of the collection appears to have been assembled between the late 1860s and early 1870s.

Two letters.

Suggests that he try to get a newspaper to print the letters clearing J H Monk

On taxation

On embossed notepaper, Howden, East Yorkshire. - Is anxious to secure the living of Eastrington, where his farm is situated, for their mutual friend [William Russell] Ramsden; asks if Houghton will approach the Lord Chancellor.

"grieved at Reeve renewing the falsehood that Sydney Smith originated"

Asks if he might use his letters in a pamphlet defending J H Monk

Evidence against the argument that Lord Canning was responsible for 'improving' J H Monk's article on Brougham

Thinks the 'Edinburgh Review' is "shameful"

Christopher Wordsworth has spoken with Henry Reeve, William Wood has counselled against a controversy with the 'Edinburgh Review', Brougham and Sydney Smith looked on as demi-gods by the 'Edinburgh Review'

131 Great George Street - congratulations on his promotion, Trinity holds her own in Church and State

Concerns additions made to J H Monk's text before printing

Suggests that they write to the' Quarterly Review 'concerning Henry Reeve's calumny against J H Monk

Sorry that Reeve is prepared to publish the article against J H Monk, reasons for believing that his position is incorrect

Hopes the matter of J H Monk's authorship will be settled