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Harrow. - His brother Frank has been passed over by the Bishop of Winchester; would Houghton consider him for vacant Bishopric of Chester?

Maura, Dean Park Road, Bournemouth. Dated 21 March, 1896 - Congratulates him on his engagement; assures him there has been no coldness this term or ever, he has been busy: his brother Arthur died in December and he has been caught up in matters of his estate, and that of his father-in-law [Francis Vansittart Thornton], who died nearly a year ago.

Notes by Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, on religious subjects, c 1839. Written on the back of exercises and letters, some in Latin, to Wordsworth from prospective and elected Scholars.

Note on inside front cover in another hand listing 'Names of Undergraduate and B. A. Scholars whose formal letters are here accidentally preserved at the back of the Master, Dr Chr. Wordsworth's notes c. 1837': W. Conybeare; G. E. L. Cotton; W. Walton; Alexander J. Ellis; J. Saul Howson; W. Pirie; A. Thacker; C. J. Vaughan; Michael Angelo Atkinson; W. D. Christie; H. J. Hodgson; Effingham Lawrence; W. C. Mathison; J. Gorham Maitland; T. F. Stooks; W. G. Humphry; J. J. Dance; N. J. [?] Rinser; Philip Freeman; E. Beckett Denison; F. V. Thornton; G. Waring; C. C. Roberts; A. S. Eddis; J Byles; J. Hamilton Forsyth; G. T Kingdon.

Chilton Rectory, Andover Road. - Congratulations on engagement.

Chilton Rectory, Micheldever Station, Hants. - On the death of Robert Pemberton Milnes; apologises for not writing sooner, as he has been hindered by a 'severe attack of lumbago'. His wife had never met Milnes' father, and he himself had seen little of him, but 'his name & doings were so much mixed up with all my father's early life' that they both felt they had 'lost a friend'.