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Add. MS c/61/1 · Item · 13 May 1889
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Drayton Mansions, Drayton Gardens, S.W. - Forwards a [book? or the enclosed circular?] featuring his books 'The Crimea and Transcaucasia' and 'The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger' with quotations from the 'Saturday Review' and 'The Times' in the same hand on the front.

HOUG/D/B/6/5/1 · Item · 14 Oct. 1857
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Albury, Guildford. - Seeking information, as fellow council-member, on the Neophyte Society: has received tiresome letters from James Drake and wishes to sever his connection with the Society - who and what are they?

Encloses letter, 12 Oct. 1857, from James Drake, Secretary and Treasure of the Neophyte Writers' Society, to Tupper. Moor Park, Honley, Huddersfield. - Has no further interest in Tupper's reasons for resigning; councillors should be gentlemen; will treasure Tupper's note as 'the novel production of a great philosopher irate'; threatens to publish correspondene. With annotations by Tupper.

HOUG/D/B/6/8/1 · Item · 3 Oct. 1880
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Great Malvern [on embossed notepaper: University, St Andrews, N.B.]. - Inaugural meeting of Wordsworth Soiety at Grasmere last night; lists aims of the Society and some of its members; the Bishop of St. Andrews [Charles Wordsworth] is President. Invites Houghton to join Council, listing other probable members; duties will be light.

HOUG/D/D/8/1 · Item · 9 Mar. 1881
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

On printed notepaper, Legacion de España en Londres. - Acknowledges Milnes' acceptance of a place on English jury of the Calderon poetry competition; encloses translation of the rules; announcements also placed in newspapers. Enclosed: announcement and rules of poetry competition organised by the Royal Spanish Academy to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Translation of document dated Madrid, 1 Feb. 1881.

Autograph signature only.