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(With an envelope postmarked at Wimbledon, 21 Dec. 1933)

Manuscript and typescript drafts.

'The Biochemistry Department at the Lister Institute, Chelsea (1940-1975)' by W.M. Watkins, Biochemist 15 (Dec/Jan 1993/94). Including reminiscences by Synge's reminiscences. Photocopy of article, with brief correspondence re Synge's contribution.

Letter from Mary Ellen Parker, 20 Dec 1836; with additional note from her mother Mary Parker to James Parker, 24 Dec 1836.

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Asks him to lunch, if he has returned from Spain. Advises him to go to Holyhead (i.e. Penrhôs) if he wants to avoid the Coronation.

(Dated Wednesday. This is a reply to B1/10.)

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Transcript

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
Wednesday

My dear Mr Montagu

I wonder whether you have come back from Spain yet, or whether your cold proved too much for you. If you are back do come to lunch one day before you go off again, any-day† this week except Friday, Saturday would be best for me.

I am glad you liked the Rest Cure {1}.

I advise you to go to Holyhead next week if you do leave London to avoid the Coronation {2}, it was quite divine at Whitsuntide {3}, I have never been so happy.

Yrs
Venetia Stanley

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Black-edged paper.

{1} A novel by W. B. Maxwell, first published in 1910.

{2} The coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Mary on 22 June.

{3} Whit Sunday fell this year on 4 June.

† Sic.

With carbon copy of letter from R. A. Butler to Fredi and Edmund Cawtrell, 17 Apr. 1953

1 Portsmouth St., Lin[coln's] Inn Fields W.C. - Was a competitor in the Burns Centenary competition; can Houghton assist hihm to better employment in the Newspaper Press Fund; currently clerk and collector to Mr. Crooks.

6 Alfred Place, Blackfriars. - Knows the Howitts, W. S. Landor, Macready and Freiligrath; has no means to support his invalid wife, though has been helped by Disraeli and Peel; gave up tutorship in classics last year to edit a 'new London Weekly Newspaper' which made him ill with over-work and failed; is ineligible for Literary Fund aid as he has not yet published anything independently; poems contributed to Howitt's Journal have been published in America but are delayed here owing to depression of the times; will resume teaching but needs funds; encloses letters [return requested]. Mr Howitt has been ruined by a literary speculation.

Huish, Devon. - Part of beginning of letter missing. Encouraged by Houghton's support of David Gray; has been writing since the age of 10; is now 49 and has published three volumes; some details missing; had hoped to promote a final publication by success in the Calderon competition; what were the shortcomings of his entry? Disappointed that no prizes were awarded; time allowed was too short, especially for a clergyman during Lent.

Isle Brewers, Somerset. - Told Milnes on arrival from Bokhara five years ago that he had advised the Umeer to put to death Umeer Abd Ool Samud Khan; execution confirmed by letters from Captain Mackenzie at Peshawar and a Bokhara Jew now arrived in London; enclosed letter [no longer present] shows the man is in great distress; can Milnes assist? Postscript: 'Th[us?] Government and the family of Colonel Stoddart & Captain Conolly have received full satisfaction'.

25 York Terrace, Regent's Park. - Addresses Milnes with the same regard as when 'I used to scold you, for appearing with an ugly Dressing Gown & a Chamber Towel, in your hand washing your face - in the Drawing room at 2 o'clock in day'; seeks civil service clerkship for her second son George; regrets returning from the continent as London people are cold and stiff.