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Haworth Parsonage. - Thanks for comments on Branwell Brontë's manuscripts. Nicholls and Mr [Patrick] Brontë have declined to publish them as their subject matter would give pain to certain persons; glad Milnes endorses decision. Fragments from a different letter adhering.

Copied by Robert Pemberton Milnes?

25 Oxford Street, Plymouth. - George Keats has taken legal steps to prevent publication of his brother's poems; can they be considered anybody's property fourteen years after the author's death? Believes he has copies of all Keats' poems. Has written nothing for several weeks owing to a bruised back and abstinence from snuff: 'The act of writing without snuff in my nose, gives me the sensation of not having had a wink of sleep for a week'; doctors warned him to give it up when he suffered a fit in the street and injured his back. Is living with his half-sister and niece and prefers this place to Italy; [his son] Carlino is working at mathematics for a civil engineer's profession. Landor writes from London; asks why he has returned; reports from Florence state that 'Mrs Landor was abusing me with all her might - this is vastly shocking, but one comfort is that I must be even with her'.

The Cottage, Lyme Regis, Dorset. - Has a few of Houghton's letters to Abraham Hayward but concludes he does not wish to be associated with the Memoir; will return letters if desired.

Published by J. Templeman and J. R. Smith, London, 1840. Marked 'Proof, with Leigh Hunt's corrections, of my annotations'.

Visiting card with printed address '148 Charles Street'; 'Boston, U. S. A.' added by hand. Envelope postmarked May/June 1873.

Concerning libel action.

On embossed notepaper for Heath Old Hall, Wakefield. - Sends account of the 'Ruskin controversy' [criticism of Wakefield labour conditions in Ruskin's Fors Clavigera] from a local newspaper, as Houghton had expressed interest in the matter; hopes he will take her side.

Enclosed: 'Fors Clavigera and Mr E. Green', press cutting from The Wakefield Express, 4 Mar. 1876.

Includes drafts and notes.

Synge served on the Committee from 1956.

Correspondence re membership of Committee 1955,1956; miscellaneous correspondence and papers re meetings 1956-1958; 1965; correspondence re talk by Synge to the Association 17 March 1960.

Prints of micrographs, annotated: date, number, magnification, and a few identified as 'Rous Ascites' [sic]

Union Society. - Milnes is fined a guinea 'for having taken a newspaper from the Reading Room, before one copy of it had been bound up in a Volume'.

Becca [Hall, near Aberford].

Stamped with title in black lettering: 'In Memoriam', then a capital 'H' with coronet in gold, 'August IIth 1885 | I | Private Letters'.

Includes letter labelled as Lord Houghton's last, to his daughter-in-law Sybil Marcia Milnes.

Records Milnes' parents, his birth in the parish of St. George's, Westminster on 19 Jun. 1809 and his baptism at Fryston on 8 Aug. 1809 by the Rev. Samuel Lucas. 22 Aug. 1809 is presumably the date of entry of this information into the register at Wakefield, it is signed by Thomas Johnstone, Minister.

(The review is headed, ‘Mr Housman’s Farewell. A Last Book of Poems. The Epithalamium’.)

17 North Road, Highgate, N.—Discusses family finances.

(Black-edged paper.)

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17 North Road | Highgate N.
19 June 1905.

My dear Clemence,

I enclose:—

A letter from Basil,
Kate’s letter to you,
Two letters from A. Parker to Laurence.

I will fall in with either Kate’s scheme or Basil’s, if the rest of you can agree on either. For my own part I should prefer to do as A. Parker suggests, and let things continue on as at present till Aunt Kate’s death or at anyrate till the £150 in hand is exhausted. When either of those events arrives, it is to be hoped and expected that we shall all be either dead or richer than now. But I will not oppose any solution which finds favour with the rest of you; and I can quite well pay either £93.15.0 or £125; only, as I have just spent £70 on my new book (a sum which the sale of the whole edition will not bring in), and may want to spend another similar sum before two years are out, and am contributing by instalments of £20 a special subscription of £100 to the College, and have indulged in the luxury of an assistant, who costs £50, and have been rather extravagant in the matter of foreign travel,—it would reduce my balance at the bankers below the comfortable margin which would enable me to flee to the continent at any moment with a year’s income in my pockets, or lend a hundred or two at a moment’s notice to a friend who might want it. I don’t know whether the way Basil proposes to dispose of your money has your sanction.

Your affectionate brother
A. E. Housman.

Contents of a folder so inscribed, n.d.

Extensive paginated ms. draft of a series of lectures on algebraic functions while at Cambridge in the 1930s.