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Appraised by William Parker Churton and John Churton.

Brook St. - Written at 10.30 [am?].'dear Annabel is safe in bed - with a magnificent Boy - it was born this morning at a little before ten o'clock'. More details of the labour, attended by Dr Rigby, 'it is the shortest time Annabel has had'.

On headed notepaper for Elderslie, Renfrew. - Congratulations on the birth of Milnes' son.

Winchester. - Has been to Winton House; the 'sick boy's name is Stratford, a Kent family. He is one of thirteen. None of his friends have been to see him yet'. Mr [Charles Alexander] Johns has taught four of the boy's older brothers. The boy is likely to be removed in a week for change. Not yet know when Greville returns.

Robert's friend Longman is the son of William Longman, of 36 Hyde Park Square and Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead; two of his brothers have also been with Mr Johns and 'distinguished themselves at Harrow and Oxford' [Robert's son is likely to be Hubert Harry Longman, later made 1st Baronet, of Lavershot Hall]. Robert knows the Warburtons, but they are not in the same class, and do not live at Mr John's house but have been granted a special exception to go up daily to their lessons (their cousins are residents at WIlton House).

Is sorry to hear of 'Miss Florence's accident', and hopes she recovers quickly. The hotel is comfortable.

Reporting death of Sir James Boswell, 2nd Baronet, grandson of James Boswell. Cutting from unidentified paper.

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?

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.

Copy in unidentified hand. Letters dated 14 Jan. 1726, 11 Feb. 1726, and 26 May 1727. On court affairs, including Jacobite concerns.

On embossed notepaper, 30 Prince's Gate, W. - Volume of Ballads now ready, but Whittingham has not sent Houghton the leaves of ownership to sign; perhaps he could call there.

The Pickeridge, Slough. - Delepierre has put the first part if his Hackness Ghost Story to type but has left out 'the part of/on Hamlet' [?] for reasons of space; encloses Delepierre's reply to Perry's questioning of this [no longer present], which entrusts decision to Houghton. George Fortescue's discovery of further Van den Bempde papers at Dropmore, perhaps undisturbed since 1725, which include State correspondence of the time of James I; theories about history of the papers.

Arlington Court, Barnstaple. - Called away from London by illness of stepson; hopes to visit Paris in April; anxious to see George Coleman's [Rodiad?]; shared stories of 'birch practice' with him in latter years; an acquaintance of Coleman's ascribed his own madness to childhood flogging. Longs to see Milnes's 'maître and maîtress' [an erotic porcelain group]; describes a china clock incorporating a flogging scene offered for sale at Brighton a few years ago; summoned courage to buy it after two days but found it had been sold to Lord Petre. In 1828 the Marquis d'Aligre showed him a Sèvres figure of Madame Dubarry supervising a birching, with other identifiable possessions, which was not in his possession when he died; recounts court anecdote alleged to have inspired the model; 'my friend the General', a cousin of the Marquis, did not know what had become of the group but thought it might have passed to Louis Philippe. Will get the work Milnes recommends. Exchanges erotic French books with 'a young [female] friend in Bryanston Square'; his 'clerical friend' is limited to English works but she has not yet read Fanny Hill.

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].

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.

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.

Corrected draft: unidentified hand.

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'.