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Lord Crewe offering the Aldine Thucydides, 1502 (now N.5.94 in the library collections).

Included are letters from and R. B. Haldane (C/7, C/10), Sir T. E. Thorpe (C/7), A. J. Balfour (C/8, C/10), Stanley Baldwin (C/8), Sir Henry Newbolt, (C/8) S.A. Arrhenius (C/9), Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham (C/11), Louis de Broglie (C/11), George, 1st Viscount Cave (C/10), Sir Stephen Gaselee (C/12), Gustav VI Adolf, King of Sweden (C/12), Elizabeth Haldane (C/11), Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (C/10), Charles James Longman (C/9), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (C11), Ernest Bowman Ludlam (C/9), Hugh Macnaghten (C/9), Albert Mansbridge (C/8), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (C/8, C/12); Alfred Chilton Pearson (C/9), Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright (C/10).

Included are letters from Sir B. H. Liddell Hart (B/74), A. E. Housman (B/76, B/81), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (B/77), 3rd Earl of Leicester (B/81), Ernest de Selincourt (B/81), Charles I. C. Bosanquet (B/79), John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (B/77), Hilda Margaret Pickard-Cambridge (B/81), Lionel E. L. Charlton (B/81), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), George Stuart Gordon (B/78), Winifred E. L. Hawke (B/80), George Cecil Jaffé (B/77), Kenneth Escott Kirk (B/79), James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Sarah Hamilton Lusk (B/75), Theodore Lyman (B/70), Francis John Lys (B/74), Margaret (Daisy) McTaggart (B/76, B/78, B/80), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (B/78), Stephen Charles Neill (B/76); Sir Harold F. P. Percival (B/79), Ernest Murray Pollock, Baron (later Viscount) Hanworth (B/74, B.79), Constance Babington Smith (B/78), Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith (B/75, B/78), Sir George Adam Smith (B/79), Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor (B/79), John Grosvenor Barrington-Ward (B/75), John Macnaghten Whittaker (B/77), Alexander Wood (B/74), Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright (B/81).

Included are letters from Stanley Baldwin (C/13, C/16), Sir Richard Threlfall (C/13), Sir B.H. Liddell-Hart (C/14), Neville Chamberlain (C/14), Sir Anthony Eden (C/16), Edmund Charles Blunden (C/14), John Buchan (C/14), Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (C/14), Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (C/15), Thomas Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester (C/17), W. Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (B/80), Robert O. A. Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (C/13), Karl Przibram (C/15), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (C/16), Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson (C/15), John, 1st Viscount Sankey (C/13 and C/14), Sir William Napier Shaw (C/13), Henry John Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland (C/16), George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon (C/15).

On embossed notepaper, Niedermorschwiller. Portrait sticker affixed at top of letter.

7 Barton Street, West Kensington, S. W. - Is 'much obliged' for the cheque for £75 for his work. Mentions the gathering of some newspaper cuttings in case he does not receive them from Romeike's.

Buckingham Palace Hotel. - Lady Galway asks her to send 'these precious letters' to Houghton; is 'glad to return to the son, a part of the debt I owe to the father'; knew the first Lord Houghton from 1869 until his death, and he was often a visitor at her house when in America; she gave him his 'first large reception' in New York and had the pleasure of being with him in Rome in 1885, when he wrote her the 'pretty Valentine' she now sends. Has 'never met so curious a combination of wit and tender heart'; thinks Houghton's 'own lines should be his epitaph: "A helping hand to the weak /A friendly hand to the friendless...'.

Has other letters of his at her country home and left them behind when she left hurriedly to reach London for the Jubilee and could not find them; asks if she may send them if she does.

18 W 32 N St, New York. - There was a slight error in the address of Procter's letter, so Sherwood has only just received it. Cannot immediately send Lord Houghton's last letter to his son, though she has always intended to do so; 'it is a most precious autograph, written but a short time before his lamented death saying that he hoped to assist at Westminster Abbey at the services in honour of General Grant'. Many of Lord Houghton's other letters contain 'gossiping details of great persons', which he wrote to her in confidence 'with permision to use them "after everybody was dead"'. Intends to leave them sealed and directed to the second Lord Houghton.

Lord Houghton always showed 'a curious literary and intellectual interest' in her; he told her 'many good stories' which she thinks he meant she should 'incorporate later in some sketch of himself'. Is very glad to have seen him with Lady Galway at Rome in the winter of 1884; 'her devotion was beautiful'. Glad Mrs Procter sees 'so much of Mr & Mrs Phelps, we are very proud of them'.

Bullhouse Hall, Nr Penistone.

Not including their correspondence.

First line 'Nocte mihi ferro blandum suadente soporem...' The piece does not appear to have been marked, as might be expected for schoolwork.

Green House, Knottingley, Yorks. - Conveying a message from the Liberal Association of Knottingley and Ferrybridge, as resolved at a meeting of the previous evening.

Address given as 55 Strand; handed in at Ferrybridge office.

Chevinedge, Halifax.

Pontefract. - Enclosing text of a resolution adopted at a meeting held in the Town Hall that day, conveying sympathies on the death of the first Lord Houghton.

Barnsley. - Conveying the sympathies of the members of the Society.

Barnsley. - Quoting a resolution of the Executive Committee of the Barnsley and District Parliamentary Liberal Association.

Barnsley. - With copy of a resolution passed at a public meeting of the Liberals of Monks Bretton and District, expressing regret that 'by the death of Lord Houghton the Barnsley Division is deprived of the services of the Hon. R. O. MIlnes as the LIberal Candidate' and tendering condolences.

21 Parliament Street, London, S. W.

Farm School, Redhill, Surrey. - Originally enclosing copy of a resolution passed by the Committee of the Philanthropic Society on 18 Aug. [now HOUG/AA/2/No. 114].

Market Place, Pontefract. - Enclosing copy of resolution at the Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Pontefract Branch of the British & Foreign Bible Society, held on 11 Sept. 1885.

Secretary's Office, Hunt's Bank, Manchester. - Enclosing extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Manchester, 2 Sept. 1885, expressing their regret at the death of 'their highly valued colleague the late Lord Houghton'.

The Vicarage, Pontefract.

Superintendent's Office, Pontefract. - A detachment of Police will attend at Fryston for the first Lord Houghton's funeral, as requested.

2, Barton St., Westminster, S. W. About arrangements for memorial service at St. Margaret's, Westminster, for the 1st Lord Houghton. Written in third person.

Bishopthorpe, York

Handed in at Westminster Palace Road, sent to Milnes at Fryston Hall, Ferrybridge.

Hotel Rastedt, Rue Daunou, Paris. Includes transcript of part of a letter written by William Wetmore Story to Hurlbert.