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Is sending her book in return for Milnes' superior one. Her maids were shocked by 'The Brownie': 'They evidently took it as an obscure & vague calumny on the race of housemaids generally'. The Songs are proper ones and should be set to music. ''The Northern Knight in Italy is bad for young men - I mean to cut it out of the copy belonging to your Dedicatee [the Hon. Sidney Herbert]. Milnes' beautiful compression of ideas is in Rogers' style. Milnes and Fonblanque have cut her this Spring. No signature: adds illustration of a hanged man, 'Fate of those who attend yr parties & wear black crape masks'.

191: Letter to Annabella Hungerford Milnes [1862 or 1863?]
200-201: Possibly to Annabella Hungerford Milnes
207: Obituary of Caroline Sterling-Maxwell from The Athenaeum, 23 Jun. 1877.

Dover Street. - Thanks Milnes for £100 on account; requests £50 more of £87 balance outstanding. Mrs [Caroline?] Norton has not received the alleged sum 'Tis all Fudge, a mere Puff'.

Re action at Westminster County Court, 14 Jul., brought by Mary Sibley against Mrs Caroline Norton to recover 'the sum of 18l. 6s. 4 d. for educational instruction to the defendant's two grandchildren'.

Printed notepaper: University, St Andrews, N.B.]. - Thanks Houghton for agreeing to Wordsworth Society's request to join Council. Has discovered several unpublished poems by Wordsworth; believes there is one called 'The Eagle and the Dove' in A. F. Rio's *La Petite Chouannerie..', published in 1842, to which Houghton, Mrs Norton, and Landor also contributed; can Houghton point him towards a copy?

24 Bolton Street. - Delayed thanks for poems owing to recent illness; their beauty; hopes to meet; now her uncle C. Sheridan has ceased wandering and can renew his acquaintance with Milnes.

19 Grosvenor St. - Milnes' poems have done her more good than doctor's visits; envies her sisters who have his other volume also; requests a copy.