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Bill due to William Whewell, and sent 'With Mr Whewell's compliments'.

Acknowledges donation of £100, wishes to establish a fund for a memorial to J H Monk

From 1759, re visit to Oxford, 'I have proposed to Vansittart climbing over the wall, but he refused me'.

(An engraved form, filled up by hand, including an engraving of the Museum by E. H. New, 1910.)

Some identified on verso.

Trinity College Cambridge. - War 'a boredom', can learn a lot about human beings through it; fair in Cambridge.

Highgate. - Encloses a correction slip [no longer present] for p 214 of his book of translations from Italian.

Letter, 15 Oct. 1883, from J. W. L. Glaisher to the mother of a young man who may wish to become a student at Trinity, explaining what needs to be done to seek admission, the unlikelihood of his getting a college room in his first year, and the difficulty of estimating an undergraduate's expenditure. Enclosing a printed sheet with information on the entrance examinations to be held in Jan. 1884; a certificate at the bottom is to be to be filled in and returned to the College Tutor. There is also a printed folded sheet with information relating to non-collegiate students at Cambridge.

The prospective student is most likely William Hastings Bagshaw, son of William Edward Bradshaw of Pitt Place, Epsom, given the provenance of the documents; he was admitted as a student at Cambridge in October 1884, but at Pembroke rather than Trinity. His mother was Maria Roberts Bagshawe.

38 Clarges St. - Sets down enquiry which Milnes agreed to place before Mignet or Guizot; found reference in the second edition of the Handbook of Spain, which does not favour Mignet; will write separately if appropriate. Appends enquiry about obtaining access to Gonzalez' abstract of letters written by companions of Charles V to Secretary Vasquez, said to be in Mignet's possession, for a life of Don Juan of Austria.

Steps to be taken to increase the endowment of St Catherine's in Gloucester

Smallpox at Milton, invites James Henry Monk to stay, agricultural labourers starving

(Partly printed in Goulburn, i. 1–2, 82–90.)

(Undated. Date supplied by Dawson Turner.)

Anne Hathaway's purported reply to Shakespeare's letter is also transcribed.

Pictures at

Includes 3pp typescript entitled 'A Note on the Plane Wave in an Isotropic Dielectric' by S. Ray, 2 April 1921.

Leigham - Will be pleased if the parents to whom Blakesley has recommended him send their children to his school as he now has only 5 pupils, has become curate of Egg Buckland, unsuccessful attempt to gain a valuable hereditary living in Gloucestershire, has visited North Wales