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.'
Inscribed to Whewell by the author.
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].
Headed 'Stock Articles'. Relating to the maintenance of soughs: under-ground channels for draining water to allow access to lower levels of mineral veins, most commonly the lead mines of Derbyshire. Mentions the extraction of 'oar' [ore]. 'Morewood' [Moorwood, west of Stoney Middleton] is named. Addendum on f. 2. in another hand.
Volume with Henry Jevon Greene's name inside both covers. One cover titled "Laws of the Monarch Boat Club," with a list of members inside spanning Lent terms 1827-1828, followed by the laws, with amendments. Starting from the back cover are two letters from Rawlinson & Lyon dated 1828 bound in, two pages of minutes for Michaelmas term 1829, and membership lists from 1829 to 1834 with simple summaries of the year at the bottom of each. A nine page insert lists the Honorary Members of the Trinity Boat Club 1826-1834 and beyond though lacking dates after 1834; some of the entries carry somewhat telegraphic information about the member.
The following names are mentioned in this volume:
William John Aislabie, Thomas Anderson, George Atherley, John Valentine Austin, Hedworth David Barclay, William English FitzEdward Barnes, Thomas Irwin Barstow, Roger Bass, John Horatio Bastard, James Akroyd Beaumont, James Bedingfield, Charles Christopher Black, John Blandy, Robert Blane, Thomas Bleaymire, Charles Bligh, Thomas John Blofeld, Walter Stewart Broadwood, Langton Edward Brown, Reginald Bryan, Gervase Parker Bushe, George Butler, Demetrius Calliphronus, Hugh Francis ("Cannibal") Carleton, Thomas Shaen Carter, Francis Charles Alfred Clifford, Hiffernan Considine, Charles Quayle Constable, John Charles Conybeare, James Cookson, John Corser, Ralph Creyke, Samuel Crieghton, John Gilbert Crompton, William Assheton Cross, Alexander Cumine, Henry Thomas Curry, John Bayley Darvall, George Hibbert Deffell, George Denman, Francis Dickins, William Dobson, John William Donaldson, Thomas Entwisle, William Entwisle, Francis John Eyre, Thomas Oliver Feetham, George Ferguson, David Grant Forbes, Nathaniel Forte, Charles Fosbrooke, Frederick Peere Williams Freeman, William Charles Evans Freke, Edward Frere, John Frere, Lewes Garland, John Philip Gell, Stephen Fryer Gillum, Henry Fyshe Gisborne, Henry Roberts Goldfinch, John Reynolds Goodman, Frederick Goulburn, Charles Samuel Grey, Matthew Blagden Hale, Edward Hamersley, James Hamilton, Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, Peter Robert Hammond, Samuel Browne Harper, John Harris, Edward James Hawker, George Charles Hawker, Edward Hawkins, Benjamin Robert Heath, Arthur Bastard Eastabrooke Holdsworth, James Richard Holligan, Robert Charles Ilderton, William Lister Isaac, Gilbert Birt Price Jenner, John Henry Keane, William Cunliffe Lister, Henry Lloyd, Yarburgh Gamaliel Lloyd-Greame, Edward Michael Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford, John Gylby Lonsdale, William Henry Lyttelton, Douglas Macdonald, William Fuller Maitland, Henry Marcus Mangin, Horatio Mansfield, John Marriner, William Massey, Richard Pike Mate, William Meyrick, Frederick Moore, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, Charles Edmund Hayes Newington, John Newman, Robert Devereux Nicholls, Thomas Maling Nicholson, William Norris Nicholson, George Henry Nicholson, George Nugée, William Nurse, Standish Thomas O'Grady, William Lindsay Palmes, Patrick Parker, George Henry Parminter, William Wilberforce Pearson, Charles Penrose, Charles Spencer March Phillipps, Lionel Place, William Anne Pochin, John Curwood Pollock, William Grant Prendergast, Robert Prescott, Josiah John Prickett, William Henry Rudston Read, Walter Ricardo, Thomas Pierson Richardson, Thomas Robinson, John Rocke, Francis Rodd, James Thomas Rogers, William Govett Romaine, Conway Lucas Rose, John Sansum, Edward Sayers, George Scott, John Nicholetts Shapland, John Sheehan, Henry William Sherer, Henry Corbet Singleton, Miles Smith, Nathaniel Smith, Warington Wilkinson, Sir Smyth, William Hammond Solly, Thomas Spankie, Stephen Spranger, Thomas Charles William Spring Rice, Richard Stevenson, Alfred Baker Strettell, Henry Hill Strettell, Sir Charles William Strickland, 8th Baronet, Maurice Shelton Suckling, William James Tayler, Samuel Barnard Taylor, Leonard Thompson, Edward Crips Villiers, John Vivian Vivian, Sir Thomas Francis Wade, Edmund Waller, Benjamin Dann Walsh, William Amos Scarbrough Westoby, Edward Balme Wheatley, Thomas Edward Whitby, Thomas George Wilmer, Charles Henry Wilson, Henry Annesley Woodham, Skynner George Woodroffe, Frank Wormald, Charles Valentine Worsley, and Marmaduke Wyvill.
Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, S.W.1.—Asks Montagu to become his Assistant Private Secretary in the House of Commons.
Log Cottage, Hindhead.—Acknowledges the receipt of ‘Bully’s’ letter. Discusses arrangements for meeting next Saturday, and refers to the visit of some factory girls.
(The letter includes sketches by someone identified as ‘Multy’.)
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Log Cottage | Hindhead
8. Aug. 87.
Dear Bully,
Was it not an odd co-incidence? I had just finished that nice little letter to you when yours came yesterday. After deliberation, I decided that it should go, so that you might be the better able to gauge the revolution of feeling that took place in our ’earts on reading your scrummy (that’s Multy’s) invitation for next Saturday. I have not time to-day to enlarge upon the subject, but Multy has some good sketches which she is doing to enclose in this with a few joint appropriate remarks.
Likewise also is it an odd co-incidence that the day on which we are to have the honour of being presented to les nôtres, our two Mums & the Dad (that sounds rather naughty, & you so young too!) will be staying here & are hoping to see the author of the blouse. Don’t be alarmed they are good sort of folk and ripe for fun at any time.
Our factory girls were a great joke, they stayed from Saturday till Tuesday & thought iverry-think real ’ansim, strite they did. Was the blot that you made in describing your night in the boys’ camp done intentionally and were we to imagine it walking off the paper? Three more of Multys sketches represent what we imagine your feelings to have been on that occasion.
[There follow three pencil sketches of facial expressions, the first apparently asleep, captioned ‘In for the 9 hours’; the second apparently waking and yawning, captioned merely with a blot; and the third screwed up, captioned ‘—!’]
You will come then won’t you (to lunch if possible) next Saturday? though it be through hail, snow, ice thunder, lightning fire, water or sunshine & we will follow thee withersoever thou goest and eat and drink with thee.
Don’t get too legal or too mathematical or too economical, mais restez toujours l’incomparable Bully de nos amies
E. B.
[On a separate sheet are eight more sketches of facial expressions, captioned as follows:]
I July 26th No letter from Bully for a week!
II Aug: 2nd Still silence
III Aug: 7th A.M. Bully chucked!
IV Aug: 7th p.m. Letter!
V E. “My Mother will be here on the 14th!”
VI B. “My Mother will be here on the 14th too!”
VII Both. Phewwww! . . . .
VIII Never mind—BULLY’S COMING –!–
A list of 53 names arranged chronologically, beginning with three members already honorary members in 1826, and continuing from Oct. 1826 to Lent 1834. The list is titled at top, designed for display and has evidence of pins at the corners.
The following names appear:
William John Aislabie, Thomas Anderson, William English FitzEdward Barnes, Roger Bass, Charles Christopher Black, Robert Blane, Charles Bligh, Thomas John Blofeld, Langton Edward Brown, Gervase Parker Bushe, Hugh Francis ("Cannibal") Carleton, Thomas Shaen Carter, Charles Quayle Constable, John Corser, Samuel Crieghton, William Dobson, Thomas Entwisle, William Entwisle, Francis John Eyre, Charles Fosbrooke, John Frere, Lewes Garland, Stephen Fryer Gillum, John Reynolds Goodman, Henry Jevon Greene, Charles Samuel Grey, Matthew Blagden Hale, Edward Hamersley, Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, John Harris, Benjamin Robert Heath, Arthur Bastard Eastabrooke Holdsworth, William Lister Isaac, Gilbert Birt Price Jenner, William Cunliffe Lister, Douglas Macdonald, John Marriner, John Newman, Robert Devereux Nicholls, Standish Thomas O'Grady, John Curwood Pollock, William Grant Prendergast, William Henry Rudston Read, Francis Rodd, James Thomas Rogers, John Sansum, Henry Corbet Singleton, Miles Smith, William James Tayler, Thomas George Wilmer, Frank Wormald, Charles Valentine Worsley
Obituary from The Times, 10 June 1969; additional tribute by L. J. Mordell, ibid., 19 June 1969.