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13 Old Square, Linc : Inn - Thanks him for the little Renan book ['Quatre témoignages sur Anatole France], and discusses Greek indifference to picturesqueness; is awaiting further disclosures about the Zinoviev dispatch, thinks [Ramsay MacDonald] is dishonest if it is genuine, and also an incompetent Foreign Secretary if it is not.

Questionnaires on content and style of Adams's IB geometry lectures completed by students 1974.

Written from Downing Street.

Writes to express her sympathy, 'as an old Newnham student', with Nora on the death of Henry Sidgwick, and to let her know how she and others feel 'this great loss'. Claims that most of what has been the best in their lives has come from their having been at Newnham. Says that they owe so much to Henry, and that 'the memory of his personal character will always give a standard and makes human nature appear as so much higher and nobler [a] thing'.

With carbon copy of reply from R. A. Butler,

Letters from 1899 include correspondence on the birth and death of Mary Babington Smith.
Letters from 1909 include condolences on the death of Lady Constance Mary Bruce, Countess of Elgin.
Letters from 1917 include condolences on the death of Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, and correspondence relating to the death of Hon. Alexander Bruce.

Printed letter announcing the Elizabethan Stage Society production of Doctor Faustus in July 1896 with a related printed notice and printed play notes for the Westminster School play Trinummus on 11 December 1879.

Castle Howard. - [Milnes?] declares he has given up being of use in the world; Howard wishes more of those who still profess the aim had his generosity and kindness.

Fryston. - Regrets it is too late to receive Hering here, as he is leaving tomorrow; hopes to meet again in London.