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.
On the spine is stamped 'Rudd and Perreau: Original Documents'. For the contents see the separate descriptions.
This sub-series includes a school photograph from Sir Anthony's childhood, images of a gathering with friends, and other memorabilia.
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.
Records the purchase of 4 and a half yards and a quarter from Obadiah Wickes and Daniel Radford at 'the 3 Nunns & Hare in Cheapside' for 1 pound 17 shillings.
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?].
(Undated. Francis Noel Pethick died in 1904.)
(It is not clear which letters this envelope formerly contained.)
Pontefract
About an [insurance?] policy.
Thompson, William Hepworth (1810-1886), college headBroadlands. - 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.