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Embossed notepaper, Ashfield, Knotty Ash. - Thanks Houghton for copies of Miscellanies; Henry would have been pleased by his sympathetic words; Lady Galway's kindness at Cannes when Hugh was ill; he has returned much better, and she has found a possible tutor for him in the New Forest.

Letters to Lord Houghton from: Elizabeth P. Bright, 14 Dec. 1884; Mary E. Bright, 4 Jul. [1885?]; Samuel Whitbread, 29 Aug. 1884; George Melly [between May & Nov. 1884]. Also a letter from Edmond Scherer to Henry Arthur Bright, 11 Jan. 1881.

Ashfield. - Encloses notes at Houghton's request; glad he plans to write an article on Henry for the Philobiblon; Henry said he owed much of his happiness to his friendship with Houghton; has bequeathed him an unpublished poem of [Robert?] Bloomfield's, which was one of his most valued autographs; her sons are returning from the Mediterranean.

Enclosure: notes on career of Henry Bright, including his gardening and other writings; with brief reference to his late brother Hugh [1884?].

On embossed notepaper: Lanehead, Coniston, Lancashire. - Gives details of Henry Bright's career at Rugby School for Lord Houghton's memoir; Bright introduced Melly to the Gaskells in 1853; hopes Houghton will allow Melly a copy of the Memoir; 'there was no one whom Henry liked so much or who appreciated him so completely'.

Ashfield. - Gives details of her father Henry's school career; her mother has requested further information from his sisters; his Rugby and Cambridge friends; association with Dr Masters and the Gardeners' Chronicle; thinks hie did not know the Gaskells when young; many of Mrs Gaskell's letters here, including one seeking advice on how to address him. Allan left for Buenos Aires last week; Hughie is looking better.

Ashfield, Knotty Ash. - Encloses pamphlets by Henry Bright on shipboard cruelties and abolition of cruelty, which George Melly said Houghton would like to see.

Enclosures: Unpunished Cruelties on the High Seas: reprint of a letter to Samuel Whitbread Esq., M.P, in 1849, with additional notes and Preface addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Houghton, by a Liverpool Merchant [printed in 1873, Liverpool, by Gilbert G. Walmsley, 2 copies]; Free Blacks and Slaves. Would Immediate Action be a Blessing. A letter to the Editor of the Anti-Slavery Advocate by a Cambridge Man [printed in 1853 in London by Arthur Hall Virtue & Co and Liverpool by Deighton & Laughton].