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Sending requested information on Irish clergy.

Chiefly Hansard reports of speeches by Richard Monckton Milnes.

Labelled 'Henry Hallam Inscription. | Includes a draft I think in Mr Gladstone's handwriting, also a note from Lord Palmerston.| 1863'

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.

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'.

Bank, Peckham. - Sorry to hear of Houghton's accident; sends copy of William Harnett Blanch's History of Camberwell and list of Testimonial Fund Committee Members; invites Houghton to preside at Complimentary Dinner at the Crystal Palace on 28 July.

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.

Including subscription form.

From unidentified periodical.

Review of memorial volume of verse published by Alphonse Lemerre, Paris.

Annotated, not in Milnes' hand, 'From the Spectator. May 17th 1862'.

Referring to the legend of the Pied Piper and the lost children of Hamelin.

Engineer-in-Chief's Office, General Post Office, E. C. - Will send a copy of his paper on Peacock's Rhododaphne, which he wrote in ignorance of the author's identity; suspended a biographical sketch of Peacock on learning that Houghton was also preparing one for a complete edition; asks if this is true; can offer scarce particulars from America if so.

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

Also includes menus from Philobiblon Society meetings; minutes; lists of members attending meetings.

Embossed notepaper, Hamilton House, Arlington Street, London. - Cannot give a Philobiblon Society breakfast this year as he is leaving for the continent on Saturday.

Partly copied by Annabella Hungerford Milnes.

Brunswick Hotel, Hanover Square, on paper embossed with stag crest and the motto Jay Bonne Cause. - Forwards papers on first English Bible and early English books printed on vellum for Philobiblon Society Miscellanies; requests return of MS whether used or note; perhaps Miscellanies should be sent to the British Museum and other privileged libraries.

Glasgow College. - Sends text of Hyperion copied from his copy of the 'former MS', in which some words were barely legible; line 35 of the manuscript certainly had hour where Keats meant horn; illegible word in line 253 could have been environed or enwormed; another word could have ben waste or wait; has only noted variants for the old part of the poem.

Pamphlet on events connected with the St. Bartholomex Massacre of Huguenots in 1572, published 1851, Lisieux.

21 Carlton Terrace, S. W. - Thanks for curious Marat book; date of second letter of Lord Lyttelton on p. 57 [of the Philobiblon Miscellanies] should be 1773 instead of 1783.

72 Eaton Place. - Thanks for copies of Mr Venables' sketch [of her late husband]; though 'not quite what I should have liked' in some parts, it is much better than Archbishop Manning's very narrow notice in the Month and should be more widely read; sale of his books a great wrench; glad some were bought simply in his memory.

Aldenham. - Thanks for note about the Scaligers; unable to write proposed notes as he cannot adequately express his feelings on the subject; will gladly amend proof article.

On printed notepaper, Chiswick Press, 21 Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London. - Quotes stock of Vols. 2-5 of Philobiblon Miscellanies.

Boodles. - Discusses Mrs Blackburne's anxiety about her son's eyesight; he himself has 'little faith in doctors in those cases'; if a change of air would help, she is welcome to send him to spend a month at Bawtry - or Serlby, where Milnes is often. Thinks that if there is anyone who has 'an unalloy'd Felicity', it is Annabel. From the mopy creature, as I saw her first at Madeley, she has sprung into a youth & freshness, beyond belief - younger by at least some dozen years- & in the highest spirits & enjoyments'. She and Richard are 'now making a round of visits in counties new to her - Norfolk & Suffolk', where two of Robert Milnes' sisters 'married early in life'; then they will go on to 'some of Richard's fashionable acquaintances'. Robert will then urge her to join him at Bawtry before the London season begins; asks Mrs Blackburne if she and Fanny would come and spend time with them.

Is currently in town; not at Brook Street as he does not like it, but at his 'old dingy lodgings next St James' St' [his club]; goes back to Bawtry at the end of the week. Discussion of current political situation: does not think their opinions would differ much; reversals in political fortunes, with recollections of the beginning of his own public life. 'But we will have it out, if you come to Bawtry'.