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HOUG/D/C/3/4/1 · Item · 28 Aug. [1846?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Clapton. - Thanks Milnes for his interest in [Ferdinand Freiligrath]; some City businesses would gladly employ him despite his poor standing with foreign governments, but there are no vacancies at present. Freiligrath will not yet accept a loan: he is not merely a poet but a real man of business. He has included one of Milnes's poems in a new book of translations. Postscript: a private donation might serve.

HOUG/D/C/3/9/1 · Item · 30 Nov. [1858?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

The Knoll. - Sending papers [no longer present] on behalf of her aunt Harriet, who cannot intervene with Government on behalf of John Saunders owing to previous refusal of a pension; will Milnes forward the papers and destroy letter to her aunt. Harriet Martineau's feeble health.

Enclosed: letter from Katherine Saunders to Harriet Martineau, [Nov. 1858?]. St. Mary's Grove, Richmond. - Financial struggles of her husband, who has been deprived of work on the Railway Guide; could Martineau induce Bulwer Lytton or Milnes to approach Lord Derby? Her husband gave a successful lecture at Leeds but was too exhausted to appear at Manchester; his play has been his only consolation amid many disappointments. Encloses copy [no longer present] of letter sent to Derby through Bulwer Lytton. (2 ff.)

HOUG/D/D/14/1 · Item · 23 Aug. [1874]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Barton End House, near Nailsworth. - was secretary to Sydney Dobell; his death; she and Dobell's widow wish his great virtues to be recognised; asks if Houghton can persuade Dean Stanley or Mr. Stopford Brooke to perform burial service at HIghgate Cemetery. Dobell wished to express sympathy at Houghton's bereavement but illness made letter-writing impossible; he was never separated from his own wife. Hopes Houghton will write obituary.

HOUG/B/Q/17/1 · Item · [1801 onwards]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Front of book used for 'Serious' quotations (labelled as such on f. 3), beginning with a poem on the death of her mother (d. Nov. 181), an extract from a letter from her mother to her and her sister Eliza, and letters from the Rev. William Hawkesley and her 'dear Aunt Mathew' on her mother's death. Loose sheet inserted between pp. 1-2.

Back of book used for 'Miscellaneous' quotations (labelled as such on f. 1), beginning with 'Mad[am]e de Maintenon's advice to a married woman'. Loose sheets inserted between pp. 38-29 and pp. 44-45.

Henrietta Maria's birth and married names written at both front and back of book.