Seeking funds for excavation of the basilica of San Clemente, Rome.
Re Cyril Mowbray Wells
Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - '...you do not offer me congratulations on our successful resistance to the capture of the University by the Women.'
British Museum, London, W.C.1. - Concerning the diaries of A. E. Housman - information which 'will make it possible for you to answer Andrew Gow'.
Christ's College, Cambridge. - Regarding Gow's 'valuable sketch of A. E. Housman'.
Pontefract. - On the death of Robert Pemberton Milnes; to remember Stainforth in his will is 'an almost overwhelming act of kindness'.
Diary of visits to Scotland by Henry Babington Smith, 1881-1882, with sketches and notes; further diaries for the years 1882-1894.
Indian Diaries of Lady Elisabeth Mary Bruce in three volumes: 1894; 1895-1896; 1897-1898. Edited extracts from letters to Lady Louisa Elisabeth Bruce; typescript, with key to characters and some reproduced drawings. Further diaries kept by Lady Elisabeth in 1902 and 1903.
Post Office Telegram - 'The best of the best'.
On headed notepaper: Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Board Room, Manchester. - Agrees that ''it can make no difference to the L & Y Co that our superintendent is made steward we should be rather glad that it is so if Edward Binstead [?] wished to continue in the Cos service I do not see any objection to it'.
Moxon and Robson have appropriated land due to writer after death of John Harrison; will Milnes intercede with his father
Newspaper photograph of Choristers in the 1890s with schoolmaster identified as Mr James, dated 1 June 1927, and a copy photograph of P. W. Filby in choristers' clothes, c. 1923.
'1 leaf containing Atonement Piyyutim... Askhenazic hand' [description of MS from Add.MS a 40/25].
Black soft-cover notebook, includes diary entries 1939 for Frisch's journey to England, meetings in London, Cambridge and Birmingham, arrangements to come to Britain etc. July-August, drawings and calculations.
On the spine is stamped ‘Expedition contre l’Angleterre 1798. M.S.’
Asks if he would like to participate in Victor [Spinetti]'s memorial service.