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43 Queen Anne Street. - Hopes Milnes will address the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind; existing institutions for the blind will not admit them above the age of 21; receipt of selling price for goods would benefit blind workmen; hopes to found institutions for teaching trades to the blind; decreased isolation will lead to greater self-respect.

[Bishop's] Palace, Chichester. - Invites Houghton to become a Vice-Patron of the Association for the Welfare of the Blind; thanks for speech on 15 May; encloses price list [no longer present] for household goods made by the blind.

5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park, W. (on embossed notepaper for The [Bishop's] Palace, Chichester, this address crossed through]. - Invites Houghton to speak at a meeting of the Association for the Welfare of the Blind which the Duke of York is to chair; currently supporting nearly 180 blind men and women.