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The sketch is captioned ‘Singular formation at the head of Pease Ghyll circa. 12. A.M.’

20 Marlborough Square, Chelsea.—Praises Milnes’s poem on the funeral of Miss Berry, and encloses some poems of his own.

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20 Marlbro Sq | Chelsea
1 Dec 1852

My dear Sir

It is not the first time I have had the pleasure of addressing you, having formerly sent to you a small Vol the feeble effort of my Muse, (“Spring Buds 1844”) and also some lines on the Coronation of Her present Majesty. I merely allude to these trifles by way of preface & recalling to your recollection my former correspondence. But the object of my present writing is to express to you my most cordial thanks for the gratification I yesterday derived from reading your simple but touching Poem on the funeral of Miss Berry. 27 Nov 1852. in the Times[.] I know not indeed when I have perused (in recent days) a Poem that has so pleased me Descriptive—simple, solemn—earnest, philosophic—Christian[—]every thing that could be desired[.] If people & poets would but only feel as you express yourself how much of real Poetry if we had but eyes to see & hearts to feel of there is in our every day path & how flowers & affection might be bid to bloom in many a spot now flat, stale, and unprofitable but, thank GOD, there are still left on the Earth some few (though but few I fear) who appreciate the gifts of heaven in Patience, Providence, and Grace; that you my dear Sir may long be spared to adorn our Literature and our Senate is the very sincere wish of

Yours very sincerely
Saml Shepherd F.S.A.

PS. I have taken the liberty of enclosing with this hurried but hearty scrawl—two or three Sonnets & Poems I have recently composed. One on the loss of our great Duke {2} & a small Poetical tribute to the Memory of the late talented Dr G. A. Mantell.

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{1} Brackets supplied. ‘“Spring Buds 1844”’ is interlined.

{2} The Duke of Wellington, who had died on 14 September.

(Engraved by Hendrik Cause.)

‘Multi multa sciunt et seipsos nesciunt: cum summa philosophia sit cognitio sui.’ Dated at Jena.

The sketch is captioned ‘The Same.’ Cf. f. 36v.

7 Fitzroy Square, (London).—She and her husband are grateful for Mr Milnes’s tribute to Miss Berry (i.e. his poem on her funeral).

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7. Fitzroy Square
Dec[embe]r 2. 1852.

Dear Mrs Milnes

Instead of trusting to the slender chance of finding you at home on occasion of a call I venture to write & tell you how grateful Sir Cha[rle]s & I feel, in company with many others, to Mr Milnes for his most beautiful tribute to the venerated Miss Berry.

He has spoken the language of all our hearts, & I feel convinced that each who knew Miss Berry must feel as if a sweet & sacred duty had been fulfilled for them—& fulfilled exactly as each could wish—& as none other could have done—Pray tell Mr. Milnes this—truly my heart seems lightened by his lines—

Hoping that yourself & your little daughter are well whose christening I was sorry not to be able to congratulate you on I beg to remain

Your’s truly
Eliz. Eastlake

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Praises his lines in The Times (on the funeral of Miss Berry).

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tuesday Morning

My dear Mr Milnes

I cannot resist telling you with how much pleasure I have just read some lines in the Times to the memory of our late lamented friends of Curzon Street. They are an act of justice to the objects of their praise, doing, in my humble judgement, honor† to the talents and feelings of their author. I cannot, of course, presume to decypher the hieroglyphics which follow the concluding stanza, but if you know any one, whose name bears the initials of R. M. M. I beg you will assure him of my warmest sympathy.

I hope we are to have the pleasure of seeing you at dinner today.

Sincerely your’s
Stratford de Re[dcliffe] {1}

R. M. Milnes Esqr. M.P. {2}

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{1} The rest of the name is hidden where the letter is pasted to the leaf of the volume.

{2} This direction is at the foot of the first page.

† Sic.

For the consideration of £105 A assigns to B the copyright of the second volume of his Grecian History, and the copyright of his additions to the first volume. The first volume was formerly purchased from A by Jacob Tonson, the father of B. Witnessed by Samuel Tonson and William Reeve.

The sketch is captioned ‘Going up Deep Ghyll | NB. You are requested to note the bread & butter in No 2’s pockets’.

Re collecting postal franks.

Text in Arabic. ‘Si nescis scalas ascendere, nunquam ambulabis in Tecto.’ Cf. f. 35r. Dated at Jena. Numbered 173.

16 Serjeants Inn, (London).—Milnes's verses (see the previous item) will appear tomorrow.

(Undated.)

For the consideration of £225 ‘and upwards’, A assigns to B the copyrights of The Accomplish’d Conveyancer, 3 vols., 8vo; The Modern Justice, 8vo; The Laws of Appeals and Murder, 8vo; Lex Constitutionis, or, The Gentleman’s Law, 8vo; The Statute Law Common-plac’d, 8vo; A General Table to the Statutes, 8vo; and The Compleat Parish-Officer, 12mo; as well as shares in The Compleat Court-Keeper, 8vo; The Court-Keeper’s Companion, 12mo; The Justice of Peace’s Vade-Mecum, 12mo; and The Clerk’s Remembrancer, 8vo; all by A. Witnessed by Thomas Brewer(?) and Anthony Brigham.

India Office.—Queries Houghton’s identification of a character in Cyril Thornton with General O’Hara.

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India Office.
Jan. 24. {1} 66

Dear Lord Houghton

I have been studying your “suggestive” article on the Miss Berrys, {2} if yours it is, and am much puzzled with one passage in it. You say the “bachelor” described in Cyril Thornton {3} is General O’Hara: but described as “of the age of sixty seven.” If so, the General must have been 67 at least—say about 70—when he died. But he died in 1802. Could he have been described by Horace Walpole in 1791, at sixty, as “with his face as ruddy and black and his teeth as white as ever!”? and could he have been between sixty and seventy when he made a fool of himself at Toulon against Napoleon? and when he made love to Miss Berry, which would have been making more of a fool of himself still? I cannot help thinking there is some mistake of date, but I have not Cyril Thornton at hand.

Very truly yours
H. Merivale

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{1} The second figure is indistinct.

{2} The reference is to Houghton’s unsigned review of Extracts in the Quarterly Review, Jan. 1866 (vol. cxix, pp. 154–81).

{3} Thomas Hamilton’s novel The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, first published in 1827.

The sketch is captioned ‘This is how Leeke &c. got up the Pillar Rock.’

(The illustration, which is headed ‘Frontispiece’ and subscribed ‘Vol. I’, depicts a crucifix, a cup, and a rod on a plinth draped in black cloth, with a censer on a cushion nearby. In the background is a burning tower surrounded by faggots.)