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Note from Emma A. Blackburne for Amicia Milnes' birthday, 3 Aug. 1858.
Letter from Sophia MacCarthy, 23 Aug. [1867?]. Includes three pen and ink sketches of scenes on the Rhine.
Letter from Louisa Waddington, 15 [Jul. 1858?]
Two letters from Mary Anne Waddington, 26 Apr. 1858 and [late Jul. 1858?].

Purley Hall, [Berkshire]. - Has recovered her sister's manuscript [see HOUG/DB/1/48]; thanks Milnes for his assistance.

Purley Hall, [Berkshire]. - Submitted Rhine Walks, an illustrated manuscript by her sister Lady MacCarthy, to Once a Week, and Mr Dallas forwarded the MS without authority to Bradbury & Evans, who will not return it. Can Milnes assist?

Embossed notepaper for 45 Pall Mall, S.W. - Lady MacCarthy's article might be suitable for the Cornhill Magazine. Milnes' note could not be included in the Pall Mall Gazette as the printers were unable to decipher his handwriting.

Also three letters from others regarding Sophie MacCarthy: letter from C. G. Barrington, 14 Dec. 1865; Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 11 Jan. 1861; [Mary?] Brunel, 9 Apr. 1870.

Letter of 12 Mar. 1862 is extensive (4 folded sheets plus one part sheet, with envelope) and contains a detailed account of an 'elephant kraal' (capture of wild elephants using tame ones) in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Both copied by Sophia, Lady MacCarthy. Poem dated Rome, 29 Jul. 1834.

Colombo, 'Ratnapoora, last address'. - Thanks for Milnes' reply and the books, which must still be on their way up river; will draw up reminiscences when he has read Milnes' Keats; asks whether it was 'poor Jane Reynolds' who reported his death; contrast with unexpected deaths of others. Knows little of the MacCarthys. Will send books, which, 'as the biographer of Keats... [Milnes] ought to have'. Poem quoted by Milnes is one Keats copied in a letter from Oxford from a scare volume of poetry by Katherine Philips; Milnes might rebind it in honour of Keats and the writer. Bailey bought it at Thrale auction in 1816; also has a copy of the first edition of Endymion, which he reviewed in the Oxford Herald; has arranged for this review to be sent to Milnes; his other publications. Sir J. E. Tennant will vouch for the unpromising literary environment of Ceylon. Requests Moxon's edition of Keats.

'I extracted a sentence from one of Keats's letters to myself which sounds very melancholy... but which shows the just confidence he had in himself: "At one time or other I will do you a pleasure, and the poets a little justice; but it ought to be in a poem of greater moment than Endymion, I will do it some day". That day never came; but the fragment of Hyperion shows what he could have done, had his life been spared'.

75: Enclosing letter from George Benvenuto Buckley Mathew
92: Vacant reference.
93: Enclosing review of American Literature by Sophia MacCarthy.