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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].

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'.

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.

162: Contains reference to John Ruskin.