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Pontefract. - Seeking more suitable employment for Henry Smith, a Pontefract draper's assistant; Smith is a keen antiquary and has produced lithographs of Roman pavements at Aldborough; copies will be sent to Milnes.

[Date given as 10/2 1850, so possibly 2 Oct. 1850].

Benefits of literacy

Visit of Isabella [Grote], encourages Alice to settle into her new surroundings.

Engaged to be married: Bremen.

George’s debts: Bath

Account of a holiday in Italy: Rome,

Settled in Neuchâtel; its recent history.

Purchase of Deansbiggin, legacies due to John Bickersteth when he comes of age, Rees' Cyclopedia, "new and very ignorant servants": Kirkby Lonsdale

Religion at a low ebb in Cape Town, there are few servants that are not slaves, the governor's proposals that all children should receive education from the age of 6 to 12 received much opposition, a local chaplain has requested that a mission be set up, visit to the Moravians at Groenenkloef: Cape Town.

Report of the death of Robert Mayor

Isabella Grote recovered, wishes to buy greyhounds: Futihpoor

Printing of sale particulars for John Mayor, Jane Mayor's faith: Haymarket

Description of Samuel Lambrick, Henry Bickersteth wants Robert and Lambrick to go to Ceylon, meeting with a converted Russian general, preached in London: Church Missionary House

Daily list of books read, kept from 16 Oct. 1817 - 16 Dec. 1817. With a note in the first entry explaining that he has "found it extremely convenient to keep a waste book of my reading &c. Artificers who work in gold have a vessel to receive all the filings that fall from their work - but I am not a gold worker - This is rather a bag to receive all old rags, scraps & remnants."

RIM will not be attending the BAAS meeting at Cambridge for various reasons, but mainly because of Adam Sedgwick's dislike of him: 'If I did not feel that he had irresolvably made up his mind to be alienated from me, I would still make every effort in my power to win back his friendship. For a long time and even during our gelogical disputes about nomenclature, he declared that they never could or should interupt our friendship and I am at a loss to know why in the last years he has become so morose and unforgiving' [see Adam Sedgwick to Everina Affleck, 25 September 1862].