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Houghton. - Charlotte reports Charley improved. Beau Brummell's note interested the family, but few remembered him; Milnes' description of a dandy as an 'unprincipled exquisite' confirms her feelings that Brummell's career does not merit a biography. Mr Thackeray's lectures on the 'Four Georges' bring royalty into disrepute for private gain; the Kings were not faultless but the nation advanced considerably under their rule and a patriot should recognise the fact; quotes Montalembert on respect for the throne; to lose such respect would be disastrous for the country,

Removed from Beazley's Etruscan Vase-painting (1947). With compliment slip

18: Letter of 25 Mar. 1866, written on letter from Hon. Lancelot Douglas Carnegie to his mother Lady Susan Carnegie.
51: Letter of 26 June [1873], containing sketches of the Ogilvy Arms Hotel and Clova Inn.

43 photographs, including images of statuary, coins, and men posing next to walls and physical remains. These images do not appear to have been used in the editions of the 'Fasti'. Accompanied by an envelope addressed to J. G. Frazer at Inch-ma-Home, Adams Road, Cambridge with postmark 'Jul 01'. The first image depicts a bust in profile accompanied by caption, 'Fotografie di oggetti asportati nel 188. Dagli scavi del tempio di Diana Nemorensis offerte in omaggio ali [recte agli] autori di Golden Bough da Giacomo Boni'.

19: [Dec 1898], with enclosure: 'Ode to the Vicarage', by H. C. (another copy at SMIH/17).
22: 16 Jul 1899, piece removed at end of letter.

All written with the assistance of/by their mother Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith except for letters 11 (19 Nov 1910) and 21 (26 Jul 1911), which are in the hand of their father Henry Babington Smith. Flowers enclosed with letter 15 (27 May 1911).

11: printed Forces postcard, dated 21 July 1915.
23: 14 Nov. 1921, enclosing two extracts of letters from Margaret and Constance Babington Smith to Leo Bright.

Some undated letters.
19: Includes printed invitation to funeral of Allan McNaughton, 11 May 1847, with note in Cameron's hand that McNaughton [perhaps a neighbour?] leaves a wife and three young children.

Letters to Henry Montagu Butler, Master of Trinity from J. D. P. French, G. B. Tatham, Lord Stamfordham, and J. Prior with the first ideas and plans for the royal visit.

Many of Greville's letters include references to Swinburne and Tennyson.

The material consists of draft reports for meetings to discuss ruminant metabolism, with a little correspondence re arrangements.

H/9-H/11: Re meeting, 6 October 1949. H/9 includes drafts of Synge's report to the meeting.
H/12: Re meeting, 14 July 1950. Includes draft of Synge's report to the meeting.
H/13-14: Papers, 27 Jul 1951
H/15-H/17: Re meeting, 21 Apr 1953. H/15 includes manuscript draft of Synge's report to the meeting

Written before their marriage on 22 Aug. 1808.

Letters to Jackson dated 12 Dec. 1874 to 11 Dec. 1912.

Letters to the 'The Times' sharing stories about children raised by wolves. Accompanied by an envelope.