Commercial print, number 26472 at bottom left.
Caption: "'Judas' Williams." Portrait of a man in a short-sleeved shirt and holding a straw hat, possibly a boxer. Signature of Mayland (photographer) at bottom right.
St James's Street - CT will be in Cambridge by Thursday afternoon and since space will be a premium at Trinity, his room will be vacant from Monday morning.
The contents fall into the following main groups:
Correspondence of Lord and Lady Pethick-Lawrence, 1913-37 (1–8).
Papers of Lady Constance Lytton, 1911-21 (9-29).
Papers relating to the separation of the Pethick-Lawrences from the Women’s Social and Political Union, 1912 (30-5).
Correspondence of Lord and Lady Pethick-Lawrence, 1927-61 (36a-104).
Papers relating to prison conditions, etc., 1909-14 (105-24).
Papers deposited by Naomi Lutyens, 1913-52 (125-8).
The papers in first and fourth groups, which derive from the Pethick-Lawrences’ numbered correspondence files, relate to Charlotte Despard (1-8), Dame Christabel Pankhurst (36a-58), and Sylvia Pankhurst (59-104).
Short article for Cambridge Review, c.1951, galley proof.
Ashfield, Knotty Ash. - Encloses pamphlets by Henry Bright on shipboard cruelties and abolition of cruelty, which George Melly said Houghton would like to see.
Enclosures: Unpunished Cruelties on the High Seas: reprint of a letter to Samuel Whitbread Esq., M.P, in 1849, with additional notes and Preface addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Houghton, by a Liverpool Merchant [printed in 1873, Liverpool, by Gilbert G. Walmsley, 2 copies]; Free Blacks and Slaves. Would Immediate Action be a Blessing. A letter to the Editor of the Anti-Slavery Advocate by a Cambridge Man [printed in 1853 in London by Arthur Hall Virtue & Co and Liverpool by Deighton & Laughton].
Includes note by A. C. Swinburne on a 'brochure infâme' based on the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Pontefract. - Payments; R. P. Milnes' recovery.
Stourton Lodge, Leeds. - Would like to become a Magistrate; Radicals' opposition to appointment for Charnock at Leeds.
The Castle, Exeter. - Asks whether Milnes can supply an autograph of Keats for his collection [written in 3rd person].
Kent House. - Encloses note from G. E. Anson on behalf of HRH Prince Albert: 30 Jun. 1840, Buckingham Palace. - Has presented Milnes' book to Prince Albert, will Morley convey thanks to Milnes.
Including toast to the Army and Navy.
CA/9/2: Including letter from Augustus Stafford O'Brien to Charles Justin MacCarthy, [11 Nov. 1835 or later]
CA/9/4: Including letter (cancelled note) from Robert Oxley to Richard Monckton Milnes, [1837?]
CA/9/2: Including letter from Augustus Stafford O'Brien to Charles Justin MacCarthy, [10/11] Dec. 1837
Venice, addressed to Milnes at 26 Pall Mall, London.
Includes typed transcripts of two letters, both from 1832.
Includes legal opinion, 29 Dec. 1865, by James Brownlow Hoskins, relating to a question of funds in trust for Marianne Colmore Bennett, estranged wife of William Anthony Burlton Bennett; this was originally enclosed with a letter from William Frind Charles Burlton Bennett to Lord Houghton.
Includes engraved portrait of Houghton taken 'from a Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, London'.