On embossed paper for the Savile Club, 15 Savile Row, W. - Sends article from The Nineteenth Century on the child criminal [no longer present]; the writer is well-informed and seeks to re-establish a reformatory system that has been allowed to lapse; ignorant politicians are to blame; invites Houghton to contribute an article on the work at Redhill to Our Times; earnest support of the late Prince Consort did much to raise public interest.
Farm School, Redhill, Surrey. - Originally enclosing copy of a resolution passed by the Committee of the Philanthropic Society on 18 Aug. [now HOUG/AA/2/No. 114].
Resolution expressing the Committee's regret at the death of Lord Houghton. Originally enclosed with John Trevarthan's letter to the 2nd Lord Houghton of 21 Aug. 1885 [now HOUG/AA/2/No. 112].