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56 Bateman St, Cambridge. - Thanks Gow for sending the proofs of A. E. Housman: A Sketch

With signature.

SPHS Reports of Council; Objectives of SPHS: Catalogue of Lantern Slides; contents page, perhaps from a SPHS publication; cover letter from George A. Macmillan, Honorary Secretary.

Typescript transcript of Housman's lecture notes. Loose inside, note of thanks to Gow from 'B. G. B.' [Bertram Goulding Brown'].

(Four messages, including two from Lady Palgrave.)

Caernarvon - The day after WW left Cambridge he reached Jones [Richard Jones]. He spent the next week sightseeing: Portsmouth, Stonehenge and several cathedrals. On his travels he picked up four of his pupils and they all proceeded on to Snowdon where they were joined by the rest of his group: 'The Celts do not please me any better on a nearer view, they seem a very primitive and single headed but a very stupid race'. If the 'new tales of my Landlord' are published could JCH get Deighton [Cambridge book publishers] to send them hither. He would also like Monk's pamphlet [James H. Monk, A Vindication of the University of Cambridge, from the Reflections of Sir J. E. Smith, 1818] and the new number of the Edinburgh Review if it is out. WW received a letter from Monk offering him the Lectureship [Mathematics] which he thinks he will accept.

Read at a meeting of the Brynmelyn Literary Society on 26 Feb. 1894

Including requests for contributions and permission to publish, also Richard Monckton Milnes’s accounts with his own publishers and correspondence re. editing The Tribute, published by Lord Northampton in 1837.

Including references to portraits of Houghton; anecdotes and reminiscences by others; notes for biographies etc: some after Houghton's death.

Beefsteak Club, 24 King William Street, W. C. Amount received corrected from the printed sum of eight pounds eight shillings to thirteen pounds thirteen shillings. Signed by Archibald Stuart Wortley, Hon. Secretary.

'Servi sous le direction d'Alfred Duclos'.

'Mr Green's fresh paint makes him unapproachable, whereby all the rules of the Club* are nullified'; asterisk below with the footnotes: 'There are but two. I. The Club shall dine at Mr Green's. II. On giving Mr Green notice'. The Secretary [John Sterling?] 'is gone over to Rome (though only for the winter) - and the Club is thus left without Law or Govt'. A 'Rump Steak Committee has been app[ointe]d to look to the Republick'; all those that choose can dine at Mr Cattrip's, Covent Garden, next Thursday at 7 '-Steaks, Stout & Ale ad lib. for 5/6 a head: those who drink wine do so at their own responsibility'.

In Monckton Milnes' hand?

Milnes has been blackballed at the Travellers Club, but 'in good company - with Landseer. The Travellers will have neither poetry nor painting'. Milnes' friends did what they could 'but there was a strong cabal against you & nothing could save you'. Suspects that 'the enemy' came from the Foreign Office. Is very sorry. Signed 'JWC'.

51 Horton Road, Bradford. - Informs Houghton of the history of the Bradford Philosophical Society; its 'existence is still precarious'. Anxious for Houghton to deliver a lecture at the society; asks, by request of the Committee, if he might be willing 'to befriend a struggling institution'. by delivering an 'inaugural address' on 27 Sept. or 4 Oct., or giving a lecture at some more convenient time, perhaps in Mar. or Apr.

Victoria University, University College, Liverpool - Thanks him for the book ['Passages of the Bible']; wishes someone would publish a Poetry of the Bible with a preface indicating the date and authorship of the Bible; thinks 'Purple Patches' a good name for a book and a good idea.

"Reasons for not signing the Resolution ..., 'That the vacant Sizarships in each year be competed for (in the same manner as the Exhibitions) by persons not yet resident.'"