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Wroxton Abbey, Banbury. - Asks Milnes if he can assist a young friend who wishes to obtain autographs of modern authors, especially D'Israeli, Theodore Hook and Sydney Smith, including Milnes' own already promised in a sonnet; they should be sent here as Frank [her brother Francis?]'s 'bump of order' is insufficiently developed for him to handle them effectively.

Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Thrybergh, Rotherham. - Frank [Doyle?] seeks Customs vacancy resulting from death of Sir Henry Freeling; can Milnes assist or advise.

Wroxton. - Thanks Milnes for the two autographs; Theodore Hook's was very amusing. Fears she will not be in London in time to see the portrait of [her brother] Frank; her aunt [Emily Milner?] invites Milnes to visit. Frank himself will be here by the end of the month,

Latin hexameters, lyrics, and pentameters. Including translations from Milton's Paradise Lost; 'Lament on the death of Thomson' [ie Ode on the Death of [James] Thomson, by William Collins]; pieces from Holden's Foliorum Silvula [a collection of English passages for translation into Latin and Greek]; Loss of the Birkenhead [by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle]; and 'Somerville's Chase' [or The Chace, by William Somerville]. Pieces which may be Robert Milnes' own composition are a dialogue between Mopsus and Menalcas [characters from Virgil's Eclogues], and a lyric entitles 'Salve, Alexandrovna', dated 13 Mar. 1874 and presumably written to mark the marriage between the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.

46 Davies St.

Lyulph's Tower, Penrith.