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(Addressed on the back to T. R. A. Briggs, Portland Villas. Annotated in an unidentified hand.)

"N" 1828 on cover. Includes sketches of geological features.

(London, Derby, Scarborough, Durham, Newcastle, Carlisle, Lakeland, Liverpool, Much Hadham).

Written to Milnes in Italy. Enclosing verse in imitation of Tennyson [no longer present].

Embossed notepaper, Reform Club, Pall Mall. - Encloses invitation to Conversazione of the London of the London and Scottsh Literary Institute, to be held at its rooms, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square. on 23 Jun. 1874. Asks whether Milnes wll consent to be one of the Institute's Vice-Presidents. Printed list of Directors also enclosed.

Barr Cottage, Bishop's Hull, Taunton, Somersetshire. - Was granted £20 by the Royal Literary Fund four years ago; now approaching 77 and less able to support herself though still writing; lost £3000 fortune long ago through deaths of five brothers; brought up her orphaned nephew Joseph Hawkey who has just died in India; seeks Royal Literary Society support.

Grateful for Milnes' part in securing him a Literary Fund grant; would like vacant Assistant-Librarian's post at the British Museum; plans to move to London; cannot do literary work for a living.

Library, British Museum. - Requests loan of £12 as he has taken a house for his growing family; has lived hitherto on two thirds of his income.

With news agency label addressed to A. E. Scanes.

Newport, Rhode Island. - Success of The Scarlet Letter etc in England; Hawthorne has enhanced unpoetic life of New England with a romance of its past; Hawthorne's reclusive habits; encloses an autograph [no longer present]; is sending Hawthorne's last volume, and a pamphlet of his own, via Chapman in the Strand. Report of poor American display at the Great Exhibition will be a timely blow to national vanity, but it does demonstrate America's lack of an underclass 'to produce luxuries for others, while they starve themselves'; hopes the same can be said in 1951 or 2051. Would like to revisit London. Has read Mrs Browning's noble new poem [Casa Guidi Windows] and Companions of My Solitude [by Arthur Helps]. Postscript: letters should always be addressed to Cambridge, Mass.

With additional note from A. Borghi.

Printed notepaper, The Critic and Good Literature, 20 Astor Place, New York. - The Critic of 30 August is to feature congratulations to Oliver Wendell Holmes, 'the Autocrat', on his 75th birthday. Requests contribution from Houghton. Postscript: Holmes is unaware of the planned compliment.

Interview, reprinted from San Francisco Chronicle, denouncing Miller's work as lacking in true feeling. Accompanied by envelope addressed to 'Lord Houghton, Chairman, Newsreaders Benevolent Association'.

Illustrated volume to ommemorate the centenary of Sir Walter Scott. Presentation inscription by Messrs Ballantyne on flyleaf.

5 The Grove, Boltons, S.W (on embossed notepaper for Boscombe Manor, Bournmouth, Hants, this address crossed out). - Jeaffreson's book The Real Shelley apparently slanders the poet: should her husband respond, and in what way? Professor Dowden was given private papers and could refute Jeaffreson's statements, but his biography is not yet published; reviewers are mostly against Jeaffreson.

Printed notepaper, City Library, Bristol. - Urges adoption of second proposal in Wordsworth Memorial Committee's Resolution; it would be a 'peculiar and condign tribute in the region which he has almost sanctified' to commemorate Wordsworth in a Lakeland mountain sculpture of the type suggested for Alexander by the ancient Greek sculptor-poet Dinocrates. Sir Francis Chantrey 'had a strong desire to become proprietor of a mountain' for this purpose'.

Is sending her book in return for Milnes' superior one. Her maids were shocked by 'The Brownie': 'They evidently took it as an obscure & vague calumny on the race of housemaids generally'. The Songs are proper ones and should be set to music. ''The Northern Knight in Italy is bad for young men - I mean to cut it out of the copy belonging to your Dedicatee [the Hon. Sidney Herbert]. Milnes' beautiful compression of ideas is in Rogers' style. Milnes and Fonblanque have cut her this Spring. No signature: adds illustration of a hanged man, 'Fate of those who attend yr parties & wear black crape masks'.

Includes papers dealing with the establishment of COMSCEE

Includes lists of: principal invited lectures, demonstrations, invited seminars and lectures, list of publication from the Epstein-Barr virus group, and list of publications co-authored by Sir Anthony Epstein, Yvonne Barr, Bert G. Achong, and others. Includes letter from Institute of Scientific Information, dealing with the impact of publications by frequency of citation and a summary of scientific findings in published work.

Includes broadcasts and interviews

Lecture given in Tokyo and Kyoto Universities in early 1983.

Portrait of seated woman wearing a mobcap/bonnet. The original sketch seems to have been done in pencil with a little shading from a red crayon. Some spotting.