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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.

Miscellaneous bank and personal accounts, insurance etc,

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.'"

Programme for 900th Meeting of the Magpie and Stump Debating Society, Smoking Concert, 15 Nov. 1909. Officers listed on first page: President, C. C. Barclay; Vice-President, H. St. J. B. Philby; Treasurer, D. H. MacGregor; Segretary, C. G. Darwin; Committee, E. S. Montagu M. P., H. A. Hollond, C. Bethell, G. B. Tatham, R. Haslehurst, F. H. H. Clark, A. C. Larmour, G. S. Shaw.

Rules of the Magpie and Stump Debating Society: 10th edition, 1907

Addressed to 'Doctissimus Viator'. Plans for meeting to be held on the 9th [re railway?]

Grosvenor Square. - Is sorry not to have ben at home when his correspondent called; would have been better able in person to explain why he cannot 'meet Mr [R. P.] Milnes' wishes in reference to an exchange of Lives, on the renewal of the Bawtry Leases'. Explains that a Bill introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury is currently before Parliament which will prevent this, and since he is himself one of the Church Commissioners and gave his sanction to the Bill a few months ago, would 'not have felt at liberty from that time to treat for the exchange of a Life in the Bawtry, or any other of the Life Leases under the See'.

Endorsed in another hand, perhaps the recipient's: 'to be sent to Mr. Milnes. arrived quite well'.

Fishlake Vicarage, Doncaster. - Sends a receipt for the half-year's rent which he received at the bank on Saturday; asks Dickinson to sent it to Milnes. Receipt written out on second f., dated Fishlake, 5 Feb. 1859: 'Received of R. Monckton Milnes Esquire the sum of Fifty Five pounds being half a year;s reserved rent due to me as Vicar of Fishlake on the 2nd Feb-y 1859 under the provisions of a Lease from the Dean and Chapter of Durham'.

Note of quarterly rent due 1858-1859 written out in a different hand on second sheet.

26 Pall Mall. - Has received Milnes' 'present of Poplin, which is exactly suited to my tastes'; sends her thanks, and hopes that 'next year you will have frequent opportunities of judging if it be becoming'. On receiving Milnes' letter this morning she forwarded his parcels and books to Lord Galway. Asks if Milnes can send her the key of his bookcase, as there are 'two Ladies occupying the apartments who are a leetle particular, & consider the books in their present arrangement or rather disorder (for some have evidently been thrown in in a hurry) are unsightly'. Sends her regards to Milnes' parents, and her 'compl[imen]ts of the season' to him.

Barton upon Humber.