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Description of Swinburne at a Literary Fund dinner by 'An English Author'.

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.

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.)

55 Nicholas Street, Hoxton, London. - Seeks employment; encloses verse; is nineteen and has little education but writes quickly and is vouched trustworthy. Enclosed: sonnet on Milton and longer verses, 'Reigate Hill' and 'Stanzas on Hearing Music'.

Including requests for contributions and permission to publish, also Richard Monckton Milnes’s accounts with his own publishers and correspondence re. editing The Tribute, published by Lord Northampton in 1837.

Gives J. H. Gaball's address as 9 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row: 'Say he has been recommendende by Mr Campbell or he may be shy'. No signature; written on scrap addressed to J. Campbell, 'Printer for [?] Arburthnot, 26 Brecknock Crescent, Camden Road.

44 Half Moon Street. - Accepts invitation on behalf of himself and his wife. Thanks Milnes for book; is a bad Classical scholar but his interest has been stimulated by Milnes' poems.

Castle Ashby. - Palm Leaves has determined the course of his wanderings; preparations for Eastern travel to avoid an English winter; seeks Milnes' advice; hopes to visit Corfu, Athens, Constantinople and Jerusalem.

By unidentified writer. From unidentified periodical, Vol. 118 No. 236 pp. 403-430.

Monograph also includes notice of Charles Buller, and is accompanied by engraved photographs of both Lady Baring and Buller. pp 225-255, with proof of p. 257 from another version of the Monograph.

Asks him to forward letter and tell E[liot] Warburton that her address is Castle Martin, Kilcullen, so that he can ensure delivery of a song by Monckton MIlnes.

49 Hanover St, South Belgravia, S. W. - Seeks private interview about unspecified matter.

Hatchett's Hotel, Dover St., W., London. - Encloses newspaper cutting [no longer present] on his son, who was educated at the University of Pisa; his scientific and linguistic abilities; he would be very valuable as a doctor in Egypt. Postscript: Fairman's Alexandria railway concession; knows the true secret of the Egyptian crisis.

Doncaster. - Houghton's kind notice of his circular; Mr Parker may have explained why Jackson seeks new employment; genealogical work excites little interest; seeks Record Office position or similar; knows Mr Frank but believes he does not value his collections enough to pay for them to be sorted.

1 Little Turnstile, Holborn. - Applying for position of nurse at Greenwich College; is widow of Frederick Lake, a sailor; has a son at sea and a daughter aged nine; seeks recommendation to Dr Wilson.

St Keverne nr Falmouth. - Is the grandson of Rev. Joseph Sager, whose widow received an allowance from the late Mrs [Rachael?] Milnes; has suffered many trials; describes his progress to the West Country; no income since closing school here last Christmas; Lady Galway left £500 to Joseph Sager's children in 1837, but without the burial certificate of his father Charles he cannot claim his portion; seeks Milnes' support.

Harrow. - His brother Frank has been passed over by the Bishop of Winchester; would Houghton consider him for vacant Bishopric of Chester?

Note by Margaret Cropper, née Denman, to her son [Edward] Denman Cropper on free endpaper: 'I have done my best my very dear dear Boy to preserve this very interesting collection of letters, wh[ich] your dearest Father had carefully kept for many years - they will both by right, & by your Father's wish belong to you, & you will I am sure remember his wish that you should not separate or destroy them. God bless you my dear Denman - you be as good & truly excellent a man as your dear Father, & may you be spared the heavy trials he has had! - May you while young profit from your great advantages, & in time make yourself worthy of the celebrated men with whom your father was connected ie his Brother in Law L[or]d Macaulay - & his Father in law, yr Grandfather Denman. Your loving Mother M. C.'

The inside front cover is headed [again in Margaret Cropper's hand?] 'Letters from Lord Macaulay. - For E. D. Cropper from his Father', followed by a page index numbered 1-30 but left blank. The inside back cover is headed 'For E. D. Cropper' and 'Contents beginning this end'; a page index numbered 1-31 follows, and this one has several entries, including early autograph hymns by T. B. Macaulay, odes, 'squibs' and so on. Several of the following pages are also labelled to indicate contents; however, none of these documents are now present, and many pages have obviously been removed.

'No. 29. Quiver with Arrows from Otaheite. Gift of Capt[ai]n Jam[e]s Cooke 1775'