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Hodsock Priory. - Introducing two 'intimate friends of [her son] William's', just going to Trinity: [Francis] Garden and [Robert] Monteith; wishes Milnes to introduce them to 'literary society, steering them clear of the Infidels and Lunatics with which evil report says your learned University abounds'. Has been reading some of Milnes' poetry. Postscript: France is 'sustaining and beautifying'; Milnes will be 'more in love with it than ever'. Concerns about Milan as a winter base for Milnes' mother, because of the fogs and cold winds.

Hall Place, Harbledown, Canterbury. - Congratulations on engagement. Has bought a 'ponderous volume' for Milnes' library: 'a lost part of Cicero discovered and published by Cardinal Mai'.

Hingham, sent to Hearn at Hodsock Priory. - Asks Hearn to inform Mrs Chambers that he has a 'full Court Dress' which belonged to the late Lord Wodehouse, consisting of 'a light Blue Velvet Coat lined with Rich Satin in good Preservation a Satin Waistcoat Beautifully Embroider'd small Cloths of the same Material as the Coat another waistcoat Beautifully worked with Gold about the same Age' with 'Buckels for the Same'. Would let them have the clothes if they will give him a 'Little trifling Present'; would not like to sell them as he keeps them 'for the respect I had for such a good old Master he was to me'.