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Notes on Shakespeare by W. Aldis Wright, Sir Philip Perring, Albert Matthews, George Parker, H. P. Stokes, Eduard Thiessen and G. O. Wray. Printed reply by Edward H. Pickersgill to a paper by James Spedding, interleaved with Spedding's MS comments.

Letters (some of those without stated address perhaps originally sent to W. G. Clark) including correspondence from P. A. Daniel, W. G. Fletcher, F. J. Furnivall, R. Markham Hill, C. M. Ingleby; also some draft letters from W. Aldis Wright to various correspondents.

Chelsea. - Summer spent in Scotland; is riding every day, and working hard on his biography of Frederick II; 'Thackeray fell lately in a dark fog and lamed a leg, I am told, whh still keeps him prisoner: no doubt he is busy exceedingly with [the Cornhill] Magazine... Spedding is gone to Cumberld'

Two letters.

Chelsea. - Travels over the summer; saw the Tennysons and Speddings; Mrs Alfred is a very nice creature, cheerful, good-mannered, intelligent, sincere-looking': 'James Spedding was as much the philosopher as ever, and as fond of tobacco: Tom I found labouring under some misgivings as to certain Pamphlets, and still obstinately disposed to hope that the world wd mend itself; otherwise well and happy'.

Scotsbrig, Ecclefechan. - Spedding has been unwell, 'even dangerously so', but is now out of danger; has not heard directly from him, but from 'Marshall of Leeds, his neighbour in the North Country, and a sure hand'. Has been travelling in Derbyshire, Airedale, and Manchester before coming to Scotland; has seen the grave of Richard Arkwright and 'the earliest Cotton-Mill in the world'; could not find Brindley's baptismal register and birthplace, 'no man had ever heard of Brindley, his place knew him not'. At Manchester saw 'Ex-Quaker Bright the Member, and Bamford the Radical'

Chelsea. - Spedding mentioned FitzGerald's 'pious attempt to get down to Chelsea, and how it foundered', and hopes his next visit might have better luck. Servant trouble; Jane Carlyle has had a bad cold; they think of taking a short visit to Hampshire soon. Never thought of writing about Bunyan at all. '“Rhadamanthus” would be a much likelier subject;—in fact if there were any “documents” procurable about R., or any ground to go upon, he were precisely the fellow for me! The world’s main want, as I read it, is a Rhadamanthus, at this very time.' Has been doing a great deal of reading.

'Ireland is a perpetual misery to me; lies like a kind of nightmare on my thoughts, little as I personally have to do with it...'; discusses the famine and what should be done about it.

Oxford - Spedding knocked down by a cab, Arthur Blakesley's attempt to gain a studentship at Christ Church Oxford

Hales says that he will sign the document and thanks Sidgwick for writing about it, 'for the occasion really calls for something of the sort, [ ] sorry as he is that it should be so'. Says that four or five years ago he was so annoyed with Farm[ ]'s proceedings, [ ] to certain opponents, that he retired from the Committee of the N.S.Sr. - 'If I had not done so then, I should certainly have done it now'. States that anyone who says a word about [ ] now stands an excellent chance of being insulted by [ ]. Refers to the document being signed - 'or will sign the formal copy whenever he likes'. Thanks Sidgwick for leading the protest against insolence. Mentions sad note about Spedding [James Spedding's final illness?]. Sends regards to Mrs Sidgwick.

Shanklin - visiting Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Spring Rice tending towards the high church, Spedding lamenting that he did not go to the Bar

Plymouth - Failure of Tennant and Spedding, his family's new house, organ within, misgivings as to the capacity and honesty of the cabinet, Chancery and Parliamentary reform bills, poor heroic Poles, capture of Warsaw, still has not been given a curacy, application for the Mastership of King's College School, impressed by Tennyson's poetry.

5 Onslow Gardens, S. W. - FitzGerald's parcel has reached him; the letters and the MS book shall be safely kept and returned; does not know whether he can 'go into the question of the Squire Papers - The story has already been substantially told by Squire himself. It is a very strange one, and I, for one, can form no opinion about it. Some of the Naseby letters I think I shall be able to use'. Hopes to see FitzGerald at some point and discuss 'many things'.

Spedding was his cousin; Froude 'looked up to him as a model of perfection from the time when I was a little boy. I hardly know what harm his friends are doing him. Four or five years ago he said to me with peculiar sadness that everything which he did was doomed to be a failure'; Froude fears that 'even the Evenings with a Reviewer will only be read by those who knew him. The spoilt taste of the modern Public will not swallow food which is perfectly genuine'.

Note by FitzGerald at the end that he is sending this letter [to W. Aldis Wright?] 'because of the Spedding part' and does not want it back; it can be shown to the Master [W. H. Thompson?] if he has not yet left Cambridge.

80 Westbourne Terrace - missing volumes sent by post could be at the Athenaeum, thinks Bacon was unaware of the existence of Shakespeare

80 Westbourne Terrace - satisfied with political prospects, hopes Gladstone will exercise enough authority that his party will follow him, Irish protestants and tithes

80 Westbourne Terrace - enquires about Meson, Stratton an invalid but bears it stoically, has moved into a house with other members of his family

sent Blakesley's answer to Longman, spending Christmas in Wales, Bacon "a young man with spirit beyond his powers, gathering together fragments of Bacon

Colonial Office - unable to [?go on holiday], cannot live outside London

Deckham Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne - death of Blakesley's mother.

Colonial Office - negotiations for feeding the Sterling Club at the Piazza have fallen through but has arranged for them to dine at Will's Coffee House

Colonial Office - resolutions passed the previous night [at the Sterling Club], Club dinners

Colonial Office - Apostles' dinner, ill, excesses of youth

Colonial Office - Doyle elected, last words of Sydney Smith

Garden's Ciceronian views, Subscription NO Bondage, John Heath, Wordsworth on copyright, Tom Moore's "postscript"

Trinity College - Peacock will recommend Blakesley for a curacy, Hollingworth recovered, Blakesley should not have accused him of being a matchmaker, information he gave to Miss Muckle

14 Queen's Square - death of Edward [Spedding]