Chelsea.
Officers' names at the top of the list: Robert Busbridge, captain; Richard Whitehead, lieutenant; Thomas Bolney, ensign; Henry Beesline and Henry Clayden, sergeants; William Francklin, drummer; Peter Heaward, Thomas Gray and George Norcott, corporals. Three columns of names of soldiers in alphabetical order.
Note at bottom: 'Portsmo. 9ber [November] 30th 1661. Mustered then in Capt. Rob[ert] Busbridge his Companey in his Ma[jes]ties Garrison of Portsmouth under the Command of his Royale Highnes the Duke of Yorke [later James II], the Capt[ain] Lieut[enant] & Ensigne Two Serg[ean]ts & theire Corporalls one Drum with one hundred Private Souldiers'.
Signed by Josiah Stubbin, Deputy Muster Master, Robert Busbridge, Richard Whitehead and Thomas Bolney.
Also showing Michael Bywater as Sir John Brute. 'Photo by Keith Rose' stamped on back. Typed strip, 'Take away your master, scour him clean with a little soap and sand, and put him to bed', glued to back.
Accompanied by a photocopy of a cutting.
Letter from Mary Ellen Parker, 10 Aug 1837; with additional note from her mother Mary Parker to James Parker, 11 Aug 1837.
Rose, Mary Ellen (1832-1921), née Parker, wife of Edward Joseph Rose18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Is glad he can come.
(Dated Monday. This is a reply to B1/13.)
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18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
Monday
My dear Mr Montagu
I am glad you can come, will you make Geoffrey or Dudley Ward {1} or someone get you a seat at Carnarvon, you will be able to do this easier than we can owing to your exalted position in the government. You have to wear uniform for the show.
Our positions with regards to the Coronation have been entirely reversed, I now absolutely sympathise with your desire to escape it and wish I had gone away, but then I wasnt in the Abbey.
Yours
Venetia Stanley
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Black-edged paper. Marked ‘July 1911’—the year in pencil, the month in green biro.
{1} Both men held senior offices in the Royal Household, Geoffrey Howard being Vice-Chamberlain and Dudley Ward Treasurer.
Hears it is a masterpiece.
Draft of the preface and notes, corrected proof of the playscript dated Dec. 1880, corrected proof of the notes dated Oct. 1881, and three corrected proofs of the preface dated Oct.-Nov. 1881.
Autograph seeker.
7 Kingston House North, Princes Gate, S.W.7.—Thanks him for his kind letter and for a copy of Dame Christabel Pankhurst’s book (Unshackled).
Beccles.—Turner’s information about the steam packet has determined Lady Gosford not to use it. Returns Sir Astley Cooper’s letter, along with a brief account of the preparation.
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Beccles June 10
My Dear Sir /
Lady Gosford begs that I would return you her very best thanks for your kind information respecting the Steam Packet, but the account you give of the Norwich one is quite conclusive with her Ladyship against her trusting herself & family to so frail a vessel. She says Lord Gosford will enquire at the Steam Packet office whether or not a vessel could be hired & sent round for the purpose, and that should he not succeed in procuring one, she will endeavour to make the journey by land. She is certainly better within the last week.
I have returned you Sir Astley’s {1} letter with a very short account of the preparation. I have said nothing about my mode of obtaining this beautiful specimen of successful surgery, because the means employed were not quite lawful ones, and, in your Town, might be considered not quite justifiable
With many thanks for your intended kindness to my son Believe me to remain
My Dear Sir,
Yours most Truly,
W Henchman Crowfoot
[Superscription:] Dawson Turner Esqre | Yarmouth [At the foot:] By favor of | Mr Willm Crowfoot
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The marks represented by full stops are short horizontal lines.
{1} Sir Astley Cooper.
Two photographs of student room, occupied by Philby his second and third years at Trinity, 1905-1907.
Hills & Saunders, photographers'Saturday morning', 11 Grey Coat Street, Westminster. - Is in depths of poverty; his book has been held back; he is owned £9 by a newspaper; needs £2 to take up offer to edit a paper in Somerset; could not meet Milnes or Freiligrath owing to seedy attire; bearer of letter is his landlord who demands two weeks' rent; can Milnes help?
44 Wilton Crescent. - Requests interview for a literary friend, Robert Reece; Tennyson and Turner are also his intimates; Reece lives a literary life, but his West Indian estates provide inadequate means. Haworth would have sent her own 'silly book' but hates the illustrations. Delighted by acting of Monte Christo.
36 Norfolk Road, Lower Road, Islington. - Will call on Mr [James?] Stansfeld; sustained in literary efforts by Houghton's encouraging words.
Kingston House, Kegworth. - Has added the boy's name to examination list for shipwrights at Portsmouth; Milnes' scheme 'too clever for Rome in its present state'; the Duke of Norfolk has hit the real point about Rome.