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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'.

Including bills & references to Richard Monckton Milnes’s personal collections of books and MSS (except erotica, for which see DF/2).

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'.

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

Including referrals to charity schools.

On embossed notepaper, Carlton Club. - Encloses card [no longer present]; seeks vote for Ferdinand Ahrens.

Broadlands. - Lord Palmerston acknowledges Houghton's application in favour of Dr [Charles?] Badham for Charterhouse headmastership; the Dean of Westminster [Richard Chenevix Trench] is to be the new Archbishop of Dublin.

94 Finborough Road, S.W. - Fryston fire; has obtained interview with Lord Salisbury's secretary; hopes for success when momentous European events are settled; seeks further letter to Committee of Council on Education.

Contains school exercises from 1905. Very few entries are dated, but they probably continue for about 2 years.