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Read at a meeting of the Brynmelyn Literary Society on 21 Feb. 1898.

With carbon copy of reply from R. A. Butler, 1 Nov. 1951.

Forwarding a letter from Sommer & Gross to Paul Giovanni dated 2 June 1970.

'Flyleaf of volume containing first few verses of Genesis I, unpointed Spanish hand' [description of MS from Add.MS a 40/25].

Letters from Margaret Anne Babington to her brother Matthew Babington, 1817-1818, one with a note from their sister Jean to Matthew.

Letters from Matthew Babington: to his brother George Gisborne Babington, 3 Oct. 1829, with additions by his wife Frances (née Sykes) and brother in law James Parker; to his father Thomas Babington, 1821-1833, one with a message to his mother Jean Babington (née Macaulay); to his brother in law James Parker, c 14 Aug. 1829; to his sister Mary, later Parker, with a message from his brother Thomas Gisborne Babington to Mary, c 14 Sept. 1811.

Letters from Matthew Drake Babington: to his aunt Jean Babington (with note from Thomas Babington to his wife Jean), 26 June 1804; to his uncle Thomas Babington, 1822-1826.

Letter from Sarah Babington, née Disney, to her sister in law Mary Parker, 8 Sept. 1837.

Letters from Sarah Anne Babington, née Pearson, to: her father in law Thomas Babington, Nov. 1824 and Oct. 1825; her sister in law Mary Babington, afterwards Parker, 1816-1829 (one with note from her husband George Gisborne Babington to his sister Mary).

(Two messages.)

Signed by Mayland at left. Pencil caption "Leatham" below photograph with "The boy" written at right of photograph.

Caption: "Montagu Corry."

Meeting to be held 'in Mr Harrison's Long Room' at eleven in the morning.

Printed notepaper, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C. - Will Houghton sign the Memorial to Lord Palmerston seeking a literary pension for William and Mary Howitt?

Embossed notepaper, Weston Park, Shifnal. - Delighted by speeches for the centenary of Sir Walter Scott; Houghton is mistaken in stating that there is now no Byron - writer recently heard the 'Bill' read in the old fourth form room at Harrow and a 'little blackheaded boy' responded to the title 'just as I was gazing at BYRON, which the poet had cut on the wall'; an actual descendant is Lord Wentworth, the eldest surviving son of Byron's only child.

Printed notepaper, 64 South Bridge, Edinburgh. - Bill for Poetic Prism [ed R. N. Greville], bought 6 Jan. 1849.

Castle House. - Unsatisfactory behaviour of Preston Seaton and Jefferson; unfair distribution of game and other election bribes; prejudice against Leatham; financial difficulties; friendliness of the Earl of Feversham etc. Adds postscript: discussion with Gully; Leatham injured by a fall during the frost; wife and family.

Colombo, 'Ratnapoora, last address'. - Thanks for Milnes' reply and the books, which must still be on their way up river; will draw up reminiscences when he has read Milnes' Keats; asks whether it was 'poor Jane Reynolds' who reported his death; contrast with unexpected deaths of others. Knows little of the MacCarthys. Will send books, which, 'as the biographer of Keats... [Milnes] ought to have'. Poem quoted by Milnes is one Keats copied in a letter from Oxford from a scare volume of poetry by Katherine Philips; Milnes might rebind it in honour of Keats and the writer. Bailey bought it at Thrale auction in 1816; also has a copy of the first edition of Endymion, which he reviewed in the Oxford Herald; has arranged for this review to be sent to Milnes; his other publications. Sir J. E. Tennant will vouch for the unpromising literary environment of Ceylon. Requests Moxon's edition of Keats.

'I extracted a sentence from one of Keats's letters to myself which sounds very melancholy... but which shows the just confidence he had in himself: "At one time or other I will do you a pleasure, and the poets a little justice; but it ought to be in a poem of greater moment than Endymion, I will do it some day". That day never came; but the fragment of Hyperion shows what he could have done, had his life been spared'.

23 Berkeley Square. - Sends music to Milnes' words, which will have to be adapted from 'young lady's' version of the poem; house-hunting. Postscript: can see Miss Lawley 'walking down the street with the elastic jaunty step of a Bride elect!'

With note from Caroline d'Andreis.