Was not able to attend her lecture, wishes she "could make women feel their minds are worth cultivation".
Alford, Henry (1810–1871) Dean of Canterbury and biblical scholarRoyal Institution Special Afternoon Lecture.
On the mount is written, 'Presented to H. Babington Smith Esqr. C. S. I. | Private Secy. to H. E. the Viceroy and G. G. [i.e. Governor General] of India.'
Article by Thoms on the difficulty of establishing historical facts, quoting example of discrepancy in evidence concerning handwriting in the Tichborne case. Published in Notes and Queries, 4th series XII, Jul. 12, 1873.
Typescript and photomechanical copies of typescript pages of tables of information relating to King's Hall (a) long-tenured King's Hall fellowships, (b) evidence for survey of probable geographical origins of King's Scholars, (c) Cambridge civil law graduates (late thirteenth to mid-fifteenth century, (d) list of all known King's Hall commoners and semi-commoners, (e) list of King's Scholars who took the M.A. and/or degrees in the superior faculties between 1317 and 1450, (f) list of children and clerks of the chapel royal admitted to the King's Hall between 1382 and 1417, (g) evidence for numerical analysis of committees of King's Hall seneschals, (h) lists of King's Hall ex-fellow pensioners.
A note on the first page records that the material was placed here after it was decided to omit these intended appendices from the printed book.
Corrected draft: unidentified hand.
13 Madingley Road, Cambridge - congratulations on birth of Eily Darwin's daughter [Ursula].
Written from Copthorne School in Sussex, mostly about school sports and books. There are 19 letters to "Mamma" and one fragment of another, and one letter to Hugh.
sends sympathy on behalf of Spanish people and government, praises John Cornford 's intellectual and moral values
Entitled "List of Portraits of Trinity Men in the College Library" giving the size of the plate, the size of the paper, the painter's name and/or the engraver's name, with annotations by Lord Adrian recording additions to the list and presence of some of the works in the Combination Room.
6 Stanley Street, Brompton. - Her son [Charles Standish, formerly of Pontefract] is currently employed by Mr Page at the Westminster Bridge Works; can Milnes or Lady Galway obtain him a post as engineer with the P&O Steam Navigation Co.
On treatment of Renoir's La Loge.