Congratulations on engagement.
Includes material re meetings with industrialists, first draft by David Clarke, with criticisms of text, attacks on Charter by Sir Waldron Smithers, M.P., text of speech by David Eccles 'Forward from the Industrial Charter'
Drumcondra Castle, Ireland.
Sewn cover with "L.D." on spine on a copy of Lorna Doone owned by Arthur Munby, with his note at back, "The heling of this copy, and the lettering thereof, were done by my Hannah. 1900."
Prime Minister’s House, New Delhi.—Agrees to the use of an excerpt from his letter (see 5/91a-b) at a meeting in memory of Lady Pethick-Lawrence.
Headed notepaper with monogram and coronet. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton
(Two messages. In each case the salutation is ‘My dearests all’.)
Includes letter from Hon. Henrietta Milnes to Henrietta Eliza Monckton Arundell, [1828?]
Winterton. - Good fishing and shooting here; returns to Riddlesworth next Wednesday. Milnes would benefit from 'a little Motion' [possibly after his accident of May 1840?] and should visit with his wife now or in the new year'; 'You may laugh at my Garden, [jinx?] my Pigs & do whatever you like'.
Re memorial to Robert Burns
Hotel Pension Beauregard, Pegli Nr. Geneva Ital. Dated 2 October 1904 - His Index is with Macmillan and he asks Frazer to add his notes on the segmentation of the undivided commune in Chapter V [of his book 'Native Tribes of South East Australia']; describes travelling in Italy near Mt Blanc, is going to Venice, Ravenna, Florence, Rome and Naples where they will embark for home.
Undertakes to write on 'the other matter...as soon as the visit is over', and states that they both entirely agree with Benson's view of 'the present situation.' Is glad to hear that Hugh is quite recovered. Adds that the Conservatives 'have just decided, by 50 to 16, to select Jebb for vacant seat' [in Parliament for Cambridge University]. Incomplete.
(Extracts from 5/91a, prepared for a meeting in memory of Lady Pethick-Lawrence (cf. 5/92).)
Prime Minister’s House, New Delhi.—Expresses sympathy on the death of Lady Pethick-Lawrence, and refers to her involvement with the India League.
Royal Observatory Greenwich - 'Richarda Airy has determined on taking our daughter [Elizabeth Airy who is ill] to Madeira. This, I need not say, is a grave measure; the mere expense is to me not a slight thing; but the most serious part is the separation for so long a time of the head of such a family'. GA proposes to come to Cambridge at some time and among other things talk to WW about the Sydney Professorships: 'These good people in Australia suddenly sent a commission to Herschel, Malden, H. Denisen, and myself, to ship them off 3 professors'.