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Dieppe. - Hopes Richard and his sister are well, and that he is applying himself to his Latin and other studies with the same keenness he had when he started to learn French; hopes the box of perfumes Richard was taking back as presents was not seized by the customs in Brighton; has paid a small tailor's debt for Richard; sends some music.

Written in London.

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.

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.

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.

162 High Street, Camden Town, N.W. - His poetry has been supported by Houghton and Lord Palmerston; Palmerston granted him £150 from Royal Bounty Fund, faces destitution since Palmerston’s death; asks if Houghton will intercede with Earl Russell.

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.

Talk for 'Aus der Welt der Wissenschaft' BBC series, broadcast 1948.
Drafts and correspondence 1947-48.

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

MS copy by Joseph Wilkinson. Paper originally read 19 Mar. 1860.

S. S. Mongolia - Has been reading the proof [of 'Totemism and Exogamy'?] and makes suggestions for changes to the section on Indian totemism.

Written out in FitzGerald's hand: 'Mr Froude's Receipt of Carlyle's Papers [crossed through] Letters which are to be delivered to W. Aldis Wright for Trinity College Library and if thought worthy my own Book of Extracts for W. A. W.'s own Library'.

Published by Eton College and Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. Credited to 'the Author of The Roof-Climber's Guide To Trinity'.

Young has written 'My Copy' on the front cover, and his bookplate is pasted to the inside front cover, along with a typed quotation from a letter from John Ruskin to Effie Gray. On the opposite page are pasted a typed quotation from Stephen Gosson, School of Abus and two newspaper cuttings, one from the Times, 29 Apr. 1942 re ‘Roof-Alpinism’ as part of fire-watching at Oxford, and another undated entitled ‘Royal Roof Climbers’ re a visit by the King and Queen to the roof of St George's Chapel, Windsor, during restorations. An MS quotation from Mrs Gamp [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit] is also written out on this page. MS quotations from Webster, Waugh and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle written out on the first back endpaper, facing the colophon.

Several MS corrections and annotations, in both pencil and ink, added throughout the printed text.

Trinity College, Cambridge. - Found letter and detective magazine on his return from a weekend in Hastings; Smythies has got unconditional exemption [from conscription?]; feeling run down.

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