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Has been a shipwright in Chatham Dockyard for 30 years; seeks 'leading man's place'.

On embossed notepaper, Wilton House, Salisbury. - Many people claim to have started the Volunteer Movement; cannot single out Captain Hans Busk for a special honour; declines invitation.

Dundalk. - Will Milnes mention him to Lord Herbert for the Medjidie Order of Turkey; sent details last December; Lord Galway's lucky escape; Welfitt had a bad fall; Sir George Brown plans to assemble army on the Curragh; hopes it will be more suitable for dragoons than aquatic birds; no trouble recently, but there may be if the flag is not permitted to fly on Londonderry Cathedral on 12th July.

Wilton House, Salisbury. - Congratulates Milnes upon the birth of his son, 'the small convex baby'; hopes to see that Mrs Milnes is well by welcoming them here on Saturday.

Letters of 10 May and 27 May 1861 written by Lady Herbert of Lea on behalf of her husband. Letter 201 is about Florence Nightingale.

4 Market Alley, Gravesend. - Reduced to poverty; deserted from trading ship in 1816 and amassed £200 by 1827; returned home and started mother and sister in a confectionery business; own business as part owner of a ship and dealer in tallow, coal and bones subsequently failed; now forced to live among depraved drunkards; fears for moral welfare of his children; seeks funds to emigrate; would be an asset during passage; 'I might become a scololmaster...'. Cites Messrs Ogilby, Moore & Co. as referees in London. Postscript: pledged teetotaller via Father Mathew; has also written to Hon. Sidney Herbert.

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'.