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F[rysto]n. - About to leave for Serlby; Sir H. Bentinck and Colonel Lane probably to go there to shoot, Philip Savile also keen but not gifted. Encloses Richard Monckton Milnes' poem [no longer present] on Bognor.

[Beginning missing]. John Monson; the Wyvills; Lord Bolton's poor game; local poisoning [William Dove's murder of his wife?]; distress caused by peerage offer; attempts at poetry,

Encloses verses [no longer present] for careful perusal and return.

Congratulates Milnes and his wife on the birth of their son, 'heir to the United Kingdom of Fryston, Bawtry & their dependencies!' Intends to go over to Fryston this afternoon to see how things are going; stayed a night there on Friday, Milnes' father was in 'good spirits... but futile [?] in appearance'.

Kippax Park. - On the death of Robert Pemberton Milnes. Should like to attend the funeral, so asks to be sent details.

Letters from: Caroline, Countess d'Andreis; George Davison Bland; Thomas Davison Bland; Edward Cheney; John Craufurd; Rev. William C. Fenton; Mary Gaskell, née Brandreth; his sister Caroline Milnes; his wife Hon. Henrietta Maria Milnes; his mother Rachael Milnes; his brother Richard Rodes Milnes; his nephew and son-in-law George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway; his daughter Henrietta Eliza Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway; William Moorhouse; his cousin John Thornton; his brother-in-law Marmaduke Wyvill; his nephew Richard Rodes Wyvill.

Montmorency. - Would have enjoyed a visit from Milnes as the train journey from Paris only takes 40 minutes; fears they will not meet again; Vichy waters made him so ill he had to be carried; nearly died of 'gout of the stomach' last month and was burned by an iron in the confusion; only kept alive by his wife's care. Tom's career as a country gentleman far better than a life of worldly vanity; Milnes has been both the 'brilliant political meteor of Bolton Row' and a simple farmer at Thorne, but perhaps neither satisfied him; good reports of Milnes' son's new wife. [Section missing]. Discussion of inappropriate business speculations; Spencer Cowper has sold one of his Norfolk estates. [End missing].

Re 'Railway No. 1'. Addressed to Thomas Davison Bland and Lord Houghton as Trustees for the vicar of Ledsham. Signed by John William Atkinson, Secretary. Printed at the office of the Yorkshire Post, Albion Street, Leeds. With plan, scale 2 chains per inch, on tracing paper of land belonging to the Trustees of the Vicar of Ledsham in the parish of Kippax, in which land required by the railway company is marked in pink.