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Reviews of schoolbooks, Andreas Mayor doing well at Clifton: [Woodstock Road, Oxford]

Chapman, S.

Includes copies of brief letters from C.C. Paterson and W.S. Tucker. 1937

Chaudhri, R. M. 1957-58

Discusses the Constitutional Convention and its functions. States that its most important aspect, from earliest times, has been that 'prominent men of each party' served it. Laments the fact that '[t]here has been a decided decline in the quality of the men sent to the last three conventions in New York'. Refers to the influence of men such as Platt and C[roker]. Refers to the referendum, and states that the legislature 'has become a caricature, and nearly all the states are trying to mitigate its evils by diminishing the number of its sessions. Informs Sidgwick that they have 'moved up to a house here for [our] last five weeks before sailing Sept. 3rd.'

Letters of John Babington to: his brother George Gisborne Babington, Nov. 1837; sister-in-law Sarah Babington, née Disney, Apr. 1833; father Thomas Babington, June 1822 and Apr. 1829; J. S. Elliott; brother-in-law James Parker, Nov. 1826; sister Mary, Jan. 1818-Nov. 1837; nephew Edward Joseph Rose, May 1880-Sept. 1881 (some copies; letter of 13 Apr. 1881 includes a partial transcript of a letter from Lydia Rose to her sister-in-law Charlotte Rose, 25 Feb. 1831).

Also letters from John Babington to his sister Lydia Rose, Feb. 1876-May 1879 (one including transcribed extract from the will of their sister Jean Babington); and niece Mary Ellen Rose, née Parker. Telegram from John Babington to Edward, Viscount Cardwell, Aug. 1852. Sermon preached by John Babington after the death of his brother in law Joseph Rose.

Letters of Joseph Babington to his brother Thomas Babington Dec. 1821-Dec. 1826, some with notes from his wife Catherine (née Whitter) to Thomas.

Miscellaneous notes.

Farchant, [Germany].—Sends Christmas and New Year greetings.

(The illustration is from a photograph of Farchant.)

Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Dated 20 March 1913 - Thanks him for the volume of Gifford Lectures, and plans to read them all in spite of his 'friendly warning'; thinks he will hear from Sheriff [David] MacKenzie on the subject of Frazer's enquiries.

Drafts of poems and printed poems by Shilleto, Robert Burn, Sir William Hamilton, Morris Moore, Richard Okes, as well as those signed with initals only: J. B., H., and W. S. [William Selwyn?]. Poems include Hamilton's "Sonnet on the Meeting of the British Association at Cambridge, 1833", W. S.'s "Experience of Magnetic Belt", four lines by H. starting "The Lytteltons give all the time up to cricket," Robert Burn's "Piscator," Morris Moore junor's formal address to Thompson, 30 July 1869. On the verso of one set of poems is a printed list of freshmen, 1882.

The collection also includes a letter (in French) dated 9 March 1869 from A. Bos, Italian translator of G. H. Lewes's Physiology of Common Life asking about a report from the Evening Standard that the students have been served donkey at Trinity.
The collection is accompanied by two letters from W. Wollaston Groome to Mr Dykes dated May 1919 relating to the provenance of the verses, and his personal memories of W. H. Thompson.

Outside at a cafe table with a man, perhaps her husband Aleksandr Kalitinsky.