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Corfu, visit to the Kaiser's villa, Greek King and Queen are unpopular there, maltreatment of pack animals, wish to stay an extra week before heading to Greece

59, Strand, London. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton, both on his own behalf, and on that of the Partners of the House (Coutts Bank)

Sir Anthony acted as a College Advisor to students. Meetings, social functions, reports, personal notes, and letters

Glenie has been made Principal of Schools, Robert made Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Galle and Tingalle, girls school held at Mayor's house, Ward has care of the boy's school, has been performing cateract operations, native customs: Matura

Exhorts Mayor to stay in Ceylon: Watton Rectory

Separation from Christian friends a source of distraction, no real friends among the passengers on the voyage, Captain Pratt

Bank House, 95 High Street, Lewisham, S.E. Private - Calls Frazer's attention to the difference in English Civil Law concerning marriage between a stepmother and stepson and the same relationship if the woman had not married the father.

Wilnecote, Tamworth. - Seeks one of the late Lady Galway's pensions for his sister Harriet Grover; the family used to live at Bawtry and was known to the Galways; Harriet has run a girls' school for many years but must give it up; she and her near-blind sister will then have hardly any resources.

Situation in Southern Rhodesia, "Gibraltar trouble", wishes to go to India

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Contains notes, calculations and summaries of experimental results.

Thanks her for sending back the letters from Henry Sidgwick. Undertakes to see if he can find any more from him, but doesn't think there are many, if any. Hopes that his uncle Arthur Sidgwick will cut back on some of his other work, of which he believes he does 'far too much', in order to devote himself to the writing of the memoir. Declares that '[t]he great desideration is that the writer should want to [write] more than anything else in the world - and everything is quickly and well done when that is behind.' Advises Nora to ask Maggie if she can find any letters, and states that there are a good many papers at [ ]. Undertakes to look there when he goes back there in August.

Ashmead, Carpenter Road, Birmingham. With a list of examples.

Naples. - Is the son of Houghton's friend the late Thomas Holme of Venice; was educated at Malta and Basingstoke; Mr Pook of Naples funded schooling after his father's death and Uncle Valentine's failure; abandoned seafaring career in China after a beating; ran a coal business in Japan which failed; secured clerkships in Kong Kong but was obliged to return to Europe when attacked by 'the most dire of all Eastern maladies Dysenerty [sic]'; returned to Naples after treatment at St Thomas's Hospital in London; long convalescence; his brothers Edward and RIchard have paid all expenses; is employed by Rogers' Bank but receiving no pay; Captain Chamier of Paris informs him that great influence is needed to secure post of Queen's Foreign Service Messenger; seeks any Government post; will be 22 on the 12th this month; his skills.