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Typescript pages heavily revised by Shaffer in a folder labelled "Shrivings. Act I (Revised)."

Included are letters from John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh; J. H. Poynting, Baron Kelvin of Largs; Sir Archibald Geikie; Sir William Crookes; Robert Cary Gilson; J. W L. Glaisher; Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb; Henry Luke Paget; and a manuscript poem entitled ’Sir Joseph Thomson and the lons’, dedicated to Thomson and signed 'H.D.E. [M.R.I.]’.

Includes an entire issue of the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times for 22 Nov. 1987.

A journal recording his work as Master of Trinity College, with notes on letters sent and received and in addition, drafts of 74 letters, listed separately according to the page number of the journal on which each letter begins. An index in the hand of Janet Douglas is tipped in at front.

Thanks her for her letter. Is unable to express her own happiness, and how much she wishes to be a good wife to Henry and a good daughter to her; looks forward to getting to know her.

(Folios 13–15, which are wanting, may have been discarded intentionally; see the note on f. 12.)

A folder which may originally have contained these notes is labelled in Skinner's hand 'Unedited Notes of Lectures by | Ludwig Wittgenstein | In Trinity College 1934 | The Notes were taken by Sydney George Francis Skinner and are | In his handwriting'. Some annotations in Wittgenstein's hand. Dates range from 'Wedn. Jan 17th' to 'Friday Feb. 23rd' [1934]; Gibson suggests that the section he transcribes under the title 'Visual Image in his Brain' dates from late 1933.

At Mr Whitehurst's, Chirk.—Describes his journey (from Nuneaton), visiting Whitchurch and his sister at Llangollen. Is going to Croisllwd (Croesllwyd?) for the signing of an agreement.

(This letter was written some time between the departure of Francis Henry Egerton to Paris in 1802 and the death of his cousin the 3rd Duke and 6th Earl of Bridgewater on 8 March 1803. Since it comprises only a single sheet and there is no valediction, it is possible that it is incomplete.)

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Transcript

At Mr Whitehurst’s. Chirk
Friday Morning—

My dear Jane

Humphrey myself & two Sisters came here yesterday morning & stay’d dinner &c & Hump[h]r[e]y & I stopped all night—I had a very pleasant Journey to Wales thro’ Lichfield Stafford Eccleshall Market Drayton where I slept & started the next morning at six oClock for Whitchurch where I breakfasted I went to see the Church which is one of the handsomest I ever saw & so is the Income about 4000 £ P[e]r Annum the Rector is the Hon: Mr Eggerton first cousin to the Earl of BridgeWater who is the patron, the Rector is now in france has four Curates at 75 £ each but one is just left to take possession of a College living & the Other three are going to petition the trustees to divide his Salary between them & not to elect a fourth, the three Curates thinking themselves quite competent to do the duty between them—prayers every day, the other duty but little more than Nuneaton if any—From thence I came to Hanmer Overton by Winstay to Rhuabon & Llangollen where I safely arrived both me {1} & my Mare well & hearty between three & four in the afternoon on Tuesday Evening—My Sister Sally came to the door & did not know me until I spoke to her—She had been a little unwel† a week or two before but is fast recovering—I am going this Morning to Croisllwd to see Hugo with Mr Whitehurst Hump[hre]y David Edwards to sign an agreement between him & his Brothers that he shall have a Lease of all his Eldest Brother’s Lands for one and twenty years or for the joint lives of both his Brothers for their lives at a very low rent—I purpose being at home by Saturday week as I first {2} intended & unless you hear again from me to the contrary which is not likely you will expect me then—

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Some abbreviations by superscript letters have been expanded, the letters supplied being printed in square brackets. In the MS the indefinite article ‘a’ is sometimes attached to the succeeding word.

{1} A mark resembling a letter ‘d’ has been written over this word in pencil.

{2} Spelling uncertain.

† Sic.

Invitation to lunch

Description of arrival at Tidworth House as a VAD

Including response to Richard Monckton Milnes’s Letter to Lord Lansdowne (pub. 1849) on the events of 1848

Published as Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review.

Letters to: Emma Blackburne, née Hesketh; his sister Amelia Jane Milnes; his wife Hon. Henrietta Maria Milnes; his mother Rachael Milnes; his brother Richard Rodes Milnes; his sister-in-law Hon. Frances Jane Monckton; his nephew and son-in-law George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway; his daughter Henrietta Eliza Monckton-Arundell; John [Thornton, his cousin?]; Mary [Anne Waddington, his sister?].