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Contents of an envelope labelled ‘To be bound as Vol VII. Science de l'homme’
Sraffa MS/C/11 · File · c. 1808-1814
Part of Manuscripts collected by Piero Sraffa

The papers in this folder have been loosely bound together. They belong to the "Mémoire sur la science de l'homme" by Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon. The headings which occur among the papers include the following:
"Préface"
"Utilité pour l'espèce humaine"
"Première partie"
"Série | Plus générale et plus complette des idées capitales de Vic=d'Ajw"
"Cause de la lenteur des progrès de l'Anatomie"
"Sciences physiques"
"Résumé de l'histoire du sauvage de l'Aveyron et des faits démontrés par les observations précédentes"
"Conclusion | de Cette première Livraison"
"Lettre aux Physiologistes"
Letter from Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood to Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, 2nd Lord Houghton
HOUG/A/A/1/11 · Item · 17 Jun. [1887?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Buckingham Palace Hotel. - Lady Galway asks her to send 'these precious letters' to Houghton; is 'glad to return to the son, a part of the debt I owe to the father'; knew the first Lord Houghton from 1869 until his death, and he was often a visitor at her house when in America; she gave him his 'first large reception' in New York and had the pleasure of being with him in Rome in 1885, when he wrote her the 'pretty Valentine' she now sends. Has 'never met so curious a combination of wit and tender heart'; thinks Houghton's 'own lines should be his epitaph: "A helping hand to the weak /A friendly hand to the friendless...'.

Has other letters of his at her country home and left them behind when she left hurriedly to reach London for the Jubilee and could not find them; asks if she may send them if she does.
Letter from Robert Smith Malkin to Richard Monckton Milnes
HOUG/E/M/13/11 · Item · 13 May 1843
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

5 New Ormond St., Queen Square. - Became a Surveyor of Stamps and Taxes at Somerset House through Milnes' influence but finds responsibility too great; Mr [John?] Thornton has written to Sir Thomas Fremantle to ask him to exchange appointment for a clerkship; Sir Thomas is waiting to see what Milnes thinks. Contains copy letter from Malkin to Sir Thomas Fremantle, 1 Mar. 1843: furnishes evidence of handwriting and education; has heard from his father that Milnes is to return to London in a few weeks; sure he will approve exchange of appointment; speech impediment derives from nervousness but would decrease when accustomed to business.
List of the contents of a parcel, by Alice Walker
MCKW/A/4/11 · Item · 1 May 1936
Part of Papers of R. B. McKerrow

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Contents

1. Text, pp. 1–12 (blue pencil numbering)

2. Your MS. of collation notes, pp. 2–5 (p. 1 you already have).

3a. Typescript, clean copy, of collation notes, pp. 3–10 (1–2 you have)

b. Marked copy (pp. 1–10) of same.

4. Queries concerning collation notes.

5. Puzzle page.

6. Some general queries.

7. Notes to Act I (I still have your MS. of these)

8. Queries re Notes.

9. Addendum to Richard III.

10. A suggestion in reply to one of your queries.

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Typed, except the entry marked ‘b’ and the ‘a’ of ‘3a’.
Letter from F. W. Lawrence to Edwin Lawrence
Letter from F. W. Lawrence to Edwin Lawrence
PETH/6/11 · Item · 5 Jan. 1898
Part of Pethick-Lawrence Papers

Calcutta.—Congratulates him on his baronetcy. Describes his stay at Muzaffarpur, and refers to his plans to observe the eclipse.

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Address c/o Thos Cook & Son
Bombay

Calcutta
Jany 5 98

My dear Uncle.

Hurrah! Just received your telegram & sent off mine. Bravo! Delightful news! I am ashamed to say I had not seen anything of it until I found your wire awaiting me here. I won’t try & put into words the sentiment all must feel, how well it is merited.

In your telegram as it reached me were the words “wire health” so in my reply I have said “excellent health”. I hope this doesn’t mean Harry has got one of his depressed fits on.

In point of fact I am particularly well & the climate at this time of year is delightful, just like an English September at its best, only the sun is rather hotter in the middle of the day.

Very many thanks for all your greetings for Xmas birthday and the New Year; I expect I shall get your special Xmas card in a few days; letters take some time because they go across to Madras first & then come nearly back again & up here, you will see from the heading of this letter that it will be better for them to be forwarded on direct from Bombay when they arrive.

I have written Dora a letter in answer to hers, {1} you will see from that that I have been spending 10 days with W. S. Adie at Mozuffapore which is about 200 miles from here, and to get there one has to cross the Ganges in a steamer. Mozuffapore is quite a large station (some 50 to a hundred Europeans) and I played lawn tennis, racquets & billiards & watched Adie playing polo nearly every day. Then on Xmas day we went to dine with the Collector (head magistrate) and on the Monday following we had a jolly little dance there. Altogether I got to know nearly all the people there & I shall probably go up again 23rd–28th inst when the special Mozuffapore week is on. The station is the centre of indigo planting, & I went over & spent 2 nights with an old Cambridge man who runs a factory. There is nothing going on now, as the indigo is not sown till March, but I saw over the factory, & looked at the fields—all as smooth as a billiard table—& learnt something about the curious sort of life the planter leads. The coolie who works in the fields gets something less than a penny a day.

Everyone here has a servant who looks after things; I have just got one at Cooks, and I have gone with him through all my clothes (I have left my big trunk behind with Campbell); he speaks English which is a blessing & I hope he will prove fairly honest. They are very serviceable when one is travelling, but if one lived very long in this country I am afraid they would make one lazy, as they take off one’s boots for one etc, they also wait at table wherever one is.

Tante asks from where I am going to see the eclipse; to tell the truth I don’t really know, possibly it will be from Buxar where the Bengal Astronomers are going, possibly a little further South where I think Christie & Dr Common are.

I have presented my letters of introduction to the Viceroy & his secretary, & I am going to the Ball to-morrow night, & to an Evening Party next week, & I shall probably see most of Calcutta there.

One more hurrah for yourself, love to Tante (I thought I would wait to write to her till later) & renewed kisses to Dora,

Your affectionate Nephew
Fredk W Lawrence

I have endorsed & returned chq to Sharpe

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{1} This has not survived.