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United University Club, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall. - Recommends Charles Augustus Fennell for Professorship of Comparative Philology at University College. Professor Paley's support. Henry Sykes Thornton has written to Mr Fowler. Fennell was 9th Classic at Cambridge but did not take a mathematical degree owing to illness.

Birchin Lane. - Can Houghton assist Percy [Melville Thornton]?; War Office being filled with NCOs; enclosed letter [no longer present] is proof that Percy would never pass the necessary examination; 'He is one of the best [...?] in England & Reginald says th[a]t on th[a]t account it had been determined to send him into the Church.