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Asks her to tell Captain Hibbert that he hopes to come and find them at home; would have given him 'great pleasure to come on Sunday Evening' but he has to 'close the Mission at the Augustinian Church that night'. If he can get away in time, he will happily call on them on his way home.

Signed by Henry Edward Manning, Robert Isaac Wilberforce & William Hodge Mill.

Hôtel Floresta, Taormina [headed notepaper]:- Will start back towards England next Wednesday or Thursday, stopping perhaps for a few days at Rome; wants to be back by the end of the month. The weather has been ‘delicious for a while now’, but he is ‘a little tired of the place’, probably as he is now accustomed to the ‘strange sights that one sees in such a Southern climate’ and ‘no more moved by a cactus’ than he would be ‘by an oak tree in England’ - for which he is beginning ‘to feel a bit of a longing’.

The ‘priest element is still predominant’ at his hotel: a ‘high-church Anglican has arrived’, and he can ‘hear [Edward Sheridan] Purcell’s Manning being discussed on the terrace’ as he writes. Miss [Lena] Milman, ‘from the tower of London [her father was Major there]’ is also staying here; she was ‘deafened by the explosion in the Tower, and is spoken to and speaks in a loud voice’. One of the two Roman Catholic priests [see 46/45] is her cousin, and they ‘converse during meals with the voice of John Burns addressing an open-air meeting’: since they ‘discuss most topics, and pretty freely, the sober visitors are much diverted or else shocked’. Her cousin is ‘in an indirect manner’ rather like ‘the hero of a late story of George Moore, *John Norton’ - or ‘something like him, for the hero is an odious person, and the story too for that matter’. Miss Milman is a ‘friend and disciple of George Moore’s’ and once told him about her ‘priestly cousin, whom G. M. promptly transmogrified into the most detestable portrait… in his not over-choice gallery of characters’.

When he returns to England, Robert will ‘have had enough scrambling over the globe for some time’; will not go to Greece in July with Fry, Dickinson, and Wedd as he had hoped. Hopes Georgie will be ‘fit for his tripos when he returns’.

On embossed notepaper, 'Archbishop's House, Westminster, S.W.' - Thanks for memorial of the Cardinal [Wiseman].

The Hollies, Clapham Common, S.W.—Is distressed to hear how ill Clifford is. All at the Metaphysical Society like him, and Cardinal Manning, on hearing the news, wrote out the enclosed cheque immediately. Encloses a cheque of his own.

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The Hollies
Clapham Common
S.W
April 26th 1876

My dear Mr Pollock

I am indeed distressed to hear how ill poor Clifford is. You are quite right in supposing that I know him well—& I like him ever better than I know him—thinking of him as one of the finest intellects & bravest natures I ever met.

We all like him at our Metaphysical Club I think—extremely—& I had a pleasant little proof of it last night when I was telling Cardinal Manning how ill he was & talking over the discussion between Clifford & himself at the last Metaphysical evening. The Cardinal was greatly touched & sorry—& begged to be allowed to do whatever I was myself going to do—by way of aiding the Fund which you are so kindly collecting. I was quite sure that if Clifford did come to know of this eagerness & forwardness of Manning’s it would be a great pleasure to him & undertook to send to you the enclosed cheque for £10 from the Cardinal—which he wrote in my name rather than in Clifford’s out of a feeling of delicacy.

He went away with me from the midst of a great reception he was holding to give me this at once—& if our Metaphysical Society does nothing else but encourage the sort of kind & friendly feelings thus shown I think & hope it will not have existed in vain.

I enclose my own cheque for £10–10 & shall be greatly obliged to you if you will let me know whether any more would be desirable or necessary.
With thanks to yourself for writing to me

I am
[…] {1}
James Knowles

To / F. Pollock Esq

I have crossed the Cardinal’s cheque for greater security—& I think it ought to have a 1d stamp put on it—ought it not?

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Black-edged paper.

{1} There are two indistinct words here.

Title on cover in hand of [?] Wordsworth's son Christopher (1807-1855). Notes in pencil on inside front cover regarding the stages in a dinner at which various drinks should be handed round.

List headed 'Invitations to Dinner' by date; 'A' for accepted or 'Eng' for 'Engaged' usually recorded; sometimes numbers record a party accompanying an individual. Dinners between 1820-1841, the whole span of Wordworth's Mastership. A detailed account of table setting and drinks produced is given for a dinner of 13 Jul. 1835 at which Earl de la Warre and Lord Camden were present.

ff. 25-26 (folded sheet tipped into the volume): copy, in Wordsworth's hand, of 'Account of the culture of Sea Cale by H. B. Way Esq., Bridport', from the Transactions of the Society of Arts [Vol. 29 (1811), pp. 70-72].

ff. 27v: Notes [in the hand of Wordsworth's son Christopher (1807-1885)?] headed 'Allowance to Dr Wordsworth's Sons in 1823'. Some biographical notes on John, Charles and Christopher Wordsworth, including Charles and Christopher's appearance, for Harrow and Winchester respectively, at Lord's Cricket Ground on 27-28 Jul. 1825; H. E. Manning also appeared for Harrow and was caught by Christopher in his second innings. Pasted opposite (f. 28r) is a statement in the hand of Christopher Wordsworth the elder, dated 1 Jan. 1823 at Cambridge outlining an allowance for Charles for 'all his Tailors, Shoemakers and Hatter's Bills'; 'John' is added above Charles' name, probably at the same time as an annotation on 27 Aug. 1823, and a note about 'Chris's allowance'. Biographical notes on Charles in the hand of Christopher the younger, f. 28v. Sheet pasted in at f. 29r with draft [?] of statement about Charles' allowance on previous f.

f. 30 'Bill of Fare at Trinity Lodge above 1820-1830': sheet pasted in on opposite f. with this.

ff. 32-34: Copies, in hand of [?] Christopher Wordsworth the younger, 'Extracts from Dr Wordsworth's Pocket-Diary for 1821'. ff. 35-36: copies in the same hand, 'Memoranda at the end of the Pocket book for 1821'.

Pencil notes on inside back cover in Christopher Wordsworth the elder's hand, recording the dates of visits by his sister Dorothy and brother William. Printed label for Flight & Williams, stationers and paper hangers of Holborn, pasted to inside back cover.

72 Eaton Place. - Thanks for copies of Mr Venables' sketch [of her late husband]; though 'not quite what I should have liked' in some parts, it is much better than Archbishop Manning's very narrow notice in the Month and should be more widely read; sale of his books a great wrench; glad some were bought simply in his memory.