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Part I, on The Merchant of Venice, and Part II, on As You Like It and Henry IV, Parts I and II. Examiner Evelyn Abbott, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Thornes House. - Thinks 'the enclosed testimony to the success of our kind attentions to the poor invalid [no longer present] cannot but be acceptable to you, it is so to me for your sake'. Hopes the 'Invalid at Fryston' is recovering quickly, her own 'little Pets are improving'.

Catton. - Congratulations on engagement.

Including unnamed volumes and individual compositions.

Barbados. - Has started a West India magazine with Major [RIchard?] Hort and requests contributions; encloses a copy [no longer present]. His own writings on Texas, where he has spent the last five months.

Putney. - Has referred Milnes’s questions to Mrs Booth. David Booth’s Analytical Dictionary is the unassisted work of a lifetime. Her father’s high opinion of Booth.

Stapleton Park, Pontefract.

One note (from the 1820s?) on small scrap of paper only.

Pontefract. Includes ref. to Christopher Wilson of Ledston (see HOUG/BP/3/11-16).

On headed notepaper, Frodingham Ironstone Mines, near Brigg, Lincolnshire.

5 Park Terrace, Cambridge. Dated Dec. 18/01 - In the late Syriac calendars the festivals are simply taken over from Greek and Roman calendars; has found a Syriac festival of St. Matthew 'pro lacte mulierum', asks if he has encountered a milk goddess of the Juno Lucina order.

296-385 all relate to the Scottish poet David Gray.

Anthems by Aldrich, Batten, Blow, Croft, Hall, Hawkins, Humfrey, Norris, Purcell, Tudway, Turner, and Wise: Service music by Blow, Farrant, Gibbons, Loosemore, Purcell, Quarles, Tallis, and Tucker. The manuscript includes very ornamented versions of Tallis' Dorian service and Gibbons' Short service, transposed up a tone.

With anthems at the front, and services from the back. The paper is uniform, with 12 six-line staves to a page. The original indexes are now pasted on inside of the front and back covers.

Anthems
p. 1: ——, [Fragment in e]
p. 2: Mr Henry Purcell, 'Thy world is a lantern' (opening only)
p. 7: [Purcell, 'Be merciful unto me'] (end only, also p. 79)
p. 10: Mr Humphres, 'Lord teach us to number our dayes'
pp. 14, 15, 18: [Humfrey], 'O Lord my God'
pp. 16, 17: [Tudway], 'Let us now praise worthy men'
p. 19: Mr Wise, 'The Lord is my shepherd'
p. 20: [Hawkins], 'Lord remember David'
p. 22: [Wise], 'The ways of Sion do mourn' (incomplete, also p. 95)
p. 23: ——, [line of a piece in c]
p. 24: Mr Tudway, 'Sing we merrily unto God'
p. 26: Mr Norris, 'Blessed are those that are undefiled'
p. 29: [Aldrich], 'The Lord is king'
p. 33: [Croft], 'The Lord is king' (incomplete)
p. 41: [Purcell, 'O give thanks'] (beginning is missing)
p. 44: Dr Blow, 'My God my God'
p. 46: Dr Blow, 'O Sing unto God'
p. 50: [Blow], 'We will rejoice in thy salvation'
p. 54: Mr H. Purcell, 'Blessed is the man'
p. 57: Mr Purcell, 'They that go down to the sea'
p. 60: Dr Blow, 'Bring unto the Lord'
p. 64: Dr Blow, 'I waited patiently'
p. 69: Dr Blow, 'O Lord I have sinned'
p. 72: Mr Hall, 'By the waters of Babylon'
p. 76: Mr Humphrys, 'O Lord my God'
p. 79: Mr Purcell, 'Be mercifull unto me O God' (also p. 7)
p. 83: Mr Purcell, 'I was glad'
p. 87: Mr Purcell, 'Behold I bring you glad tydings'
p. 91: Mr Humphrys, 'Like as the hart'
p. 95: Mr Wise, 'The ways of Sion do mourn' (also p. 22)
p. 99: Mr Norris, 'In Jury is God known'
p. 103: Mr Wise, 'I will sing a new song'
p. 107: Mr Purcell, 'My song shall be always'
p. 115: Dr Blow, 'And I heard a great voice'
p. 120: Mr Batten, 'Hear my prayer O God'
p. 122: Mr H. Purcell, ['Thou knowest Lord']
p. 125: Mr Purcell, 'Blessed be the Lord my strength'
p. 128: Dr Blow, 'The Lord is king'
p. 133: Dr Turner, 'Lord who shall dwell'

Services
p. 1: [various jottings]
p. 2: ——, 'Magnificat in F' (incomplete)
p. 3: Mr Farrant, 'Magnificat', 'Nunc dimittis' in g
p. 6: [Tucker, 'I will magnify thee']
p. 10: Dr Blow, 'Cantate Domino', 'Deus misereatur' in e (transposed to D)
p. 16: Mr Henry Loesemore, Responses after the Commandments, Creed
p. 18: Mr Purcell, 'Magnificat', 'Nunc dimittis' in g (transposed to C)
p. 24: ——, [Fragment in C]
p. 27: Dr Blow, [Anthem fragment in A]
p. 30: C. Quarles, 'Magnificat', 'Nunc dimittis'
p. 34: Mr Tallis, 'Te Deum' [Dorian service, transposed up a tone]
p. 39: Mr Tallis, 'Magnificat', 'Nunc dimittis'
p. 44: Mr Gibbons, 'Te Deum'
p. 50: [Gibbons], 'Magnificat', 'Nunc dimittis'

Trinity College, Cambridge.—Sends birthday greetings and congratulates him on his appointment as magistrate. The heads of houses have decided against letting students go down for the election, so he will not be able to run down to Exeter for the day.

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Coll: SS: Trin. Cantab.
Nov. 17/68

My dearest Father

This is to wish you loads upon loads of happy returns of the day, and that every one may find you more prosperous and happy than the last. I am very vexed about some photographs I got in Dresden and meant to have sent you now: the photographer sent two short to Fraülein† Kretschmer’s, and there have been subsequent confusions so that they have not come yet. I must bring them to you at Christmas.

I have to congratulate you also on your new magisterial duties: and hope you won’t be too hard on me if I am ever brought up before you. The little holiday I was expecting has not come off; but I have had to scold several men for their bad taste in cutting my lecture to see the British Public nominate its elegant representatives. {1} It would have been very jolly to run down for a day—but I suppose the Heads of Houses thought the men would get into much greater rows at home if they were sent there. I hope your affairs will have passed off quietly, and that you have not got into any more danger from the independent electors. Very best love to dear Mama & the little ones from

Your most affectionate son
W. K. Clifford

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Letter-head of the Cambridge Union Society.

{1} A general election was held this year between 17 November and 7 December. Nominations of candidates in the various constituencies were held on 16 November.

Numbering of items begins at 77 and goes up to 139. Other numbering is crossed out. Items listed by source:
'Discovered at "Fox Hill Hole" near Orwell, Cambs., in 1872. Presented by William White, sub-Librarian';
'Articles from a Saxon cemetery at Harlton, Cambs.; presented by Prof. Hughes, June 1875';
'Presented by Prof. Hughes... discovered at Haslingfield'; various dates from Feb 1876-Dec 1878. Items found at Six Mile Bottom presented in Mar. 1879
'Presented by Lees Knowles Esq., Trin. Coll... found near Barton', Jun. 1878
'Presented by H. J. Washbrough Esq., 7 Gloster Row, Clifton... found in the Townfield, Maydon, near Bristol'.
Also items from Barrington, Colchester, Stourbridge Common, Sandy, Newnham Croft and Blagdon, Somerset with no indication of donor.

Palatino e Foro Romano - Thanks for the English translation of Sir John's [?] speech, and for the memorable day in Cambridge on Wednesday, June 11; thinks the Frazers should take a break from work and find different surroundings, hopes they may visit Rome next winter.

Paris - Congratulates Frazer on behalf of La Commission de l'Enseignement et des Beaux-Arts de la Chambre des Députés on receiving the title of docteur honoris causa from the Université de Paris.

Prades. - The arrangement she has made for her husband's library seems a good one; he, like she, is sure that Robert Trevelyan would approve. He thinks often of Robert and of their friend Donald Tovey. Is sorry to hear of Joachim's rheumatic pains and hope they have ceased; soon he will receive an invitation for the [Prades] Festival and it would give Casales joy to work with him as in other years.

Trinity College, Cambridge - A letter of condolence on the death of Butler’s sister Mrs Louisa Jane Butler Galton

Lahore. - Sent a post card last week before catching the train to Peshawar 'in a hurry' since the doctor had said he had German measles and could not travel, before changing his mind at the last moment; only had 'a slight feverishness one evening and a light rash that soon went'. He has otherwise been very well, as has [Goldsworthy Lowes] Dickinson. Glad to hear that all is well with his parents at Wallington; Bessie has written 'cheerfully', the Bottomleys [Gordon and Emily] had not yet arrived. Has been having a very interesting time here and at Peshawar; the Kaiber [sic: Khyber] Pass was worth the journey to see; they watched a 'caravan of several thousand Afghans with hundreds of camels and donkeys and buffaloes' for hours; they were 'fine looking men, though very dirty'. Has found India an 'ugly country' so far, except for Bombay harbour, particularly the Punjab; the hills are 'often impressive, but not beautiful, as in Italy'. The people however are 'always interesting' and there is much to see. Dined last night with 'some Mohammedans, a famous lawyer, and a famous poet called Ikdal [perhaps Muhammad Iqbal?], and several others' who were 'very pleasant and cultivated'; the poet was 'quite a wit'. The lawyer 'held forth on the wickedness of the Hindoos, and one might think it was an Orangeman abusing the Catholics', though Robert expects the Hindus are as intolerant as the Muslims, and the lawyer was 'no doubt carried away somewhat by his eloquence' and probably not as 'bigotted' as he seemed; the poet and some of the others seemed more moderate than the lawyer, who was 'quite the [Edward] Carson type, though a nice man.'

They are going tonight to Delhi, and will stay there and at Agra a fortnight, before touring in Rajputana; they hope to be at Benares before Christmas. Has been staying with his 'old Harrow friend [Alexander] Stow, who has been 'very hospitable', but expects they will now be in hotels for some time. Glad Julian is 'so well', and that the ceremony at Stratford [marking Sir George Trevelyan's appointment as High Steward of the borough?] was so successful; will write to his father by this mail if possible. Hears the British government has been defeated, and hopes they will not 'have to go out'. Very glad to get his "Manchester Guardians" every week. The Muslims here are 'much upset about Turkey', but he does not think it will cause much ill-feeling against the British.

Friends War Victims Relief Committee, A.P.O., S.5., B.E.F., France. - Thanks Julian for the Christmas card, notebook and poem, also 'trust[s] a few months will see [him] home'. Sends a coloured photograph of a Watteau painting as a Christmas card. Hopes Julian is having a good holiday with his mother and the Moores; wishes he could be there, and that Julian could 'fly over in an aeroplane' and see him 'folding up parcels of books', which he is very clumsy at, and his way of 'making an index of the library'. Will write to Elizabeth tomorrow, is sending a program for her of a concert he went to. Wonders whether Julian is 'eating Sumph for breakfast, or Sue perhaps [pigs?]', and how the rabbits are doing. Hears that Mr Moore is reading Captain Cook's voyages to Julian, Dan and Riette. It is wet, the river Seine is very full and muddy, and 'rushes along like the yellow Tiber in "Horatius" [by Macaulay]'

8, Grosvenor Crescent. - Sorry to hear of the mishap; hopes Elizabeth's violin turns up soon; thinks she would have waited at Naples for it but Rome must be charming. Robert's book ["Cecilia Gonzaga"] has come out, 'charmingly printed & bound', and they are all reading it. Thinks it is beautiful, though 'too restrained & measured at the end for the tragic action'. Hopes it will sell; it is well advertised. Wonders whether Elizabeth and Robert will move this year; knows a young couple who she thinks would take the Mill House if they give it up. Many people going to Rome at the moment; hears all the hotels are full. Asks if they will see Gilbert Murray in Florence. Mrs Bertie Russell [Alys] is moving to the country; he is on a walking holiday with George in Devon.