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Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope. - The new Governor Sir George Grey mentioned that Milnes had offered to do Knight a favour; has been seeking home leave on urgent private business for 18 months; scarcity of officers now relieved but the current General Officer [James Jackson] is 'the most implacable old gentleman that ever held command'; he will only allow home those who sell out; refused Knight's claim though it was supported by Grey and others; would Milnes urge it with Lord Hardinge. Jackson's nephew has enjoyed long periods of leave; believes he may have influenced his uncle adversely owing to jealousy of Knight's Indian service.

Thirlestane, Selkirk, N[orth] B[ritain]. - His son Mark seeks the office of Remembrancer for the City of London, which Mr Robartes [sic: Charles Henry Robarts] is to vacate after quarrelling with the authorities. 'Mr Robartes was so ingenuous as to desire to reform some of the Corporation. I am confident that Mark would not have been so simple. Solicits Houghton's influence in 'the Land of the Turtle' and asks him to advise Mark. Postscript: will remain at his current address until the Land Bill comes before the Lords.

Re portraits of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew of Steane, and members of his family: his daughters Armine and Elizabeth, his brother Nathaniel, 3rd Baron Crew and Bishop of Durham, and Nathaniel's second wife Dorothy Forster.

Reference to 'This Perugia business' being 'a bloody affair' [either the seizure of the city by Austria in May 1849, or the uprising in June 1859?]

With black mourning border [perhaps occasioned by the death of Milnes' mother on 1 May 1847?]. Address printed is 26, Pall Mall, but this has been crossed through and 'Membre du Parlament Brittanique' [sic] added in ink.

With additional note from A. Borghi.

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'.

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.

Castle House, Pomfret. Mr Skipwith of the Leeds Post Office seeking civil service post; local testimonials; petition against Sir James Graham's Bill; opposition to Milnes; family and farming news.

43 Queen Anne Street. - Hopes Milnes will address the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind; existing institutions for the blind will not admit them above the age of 21; receipt of selling price for goods would benefit blind workmen; hopes to found institutions for teaching trades to the blind; decreased isolation will lead to greater self-respect.

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?].

Has a copy of CJM's review of Blomfield's Prometheus but not the 'British Critic'

At the back of the volume are verses and a Latin inscription for a portrait of Charles John Ellicott.

Printed Gaisford Prize: Greek Theocritean Verse by John Arthur Godley, 1869; Gaisford Prize, Greek Prose 1907, Herodotus at the Zoo by John Davidson Beazley; Prolusiones Academicae, or Exercises which having obtained prizes in the University of Cambridge will be recited in the Senate-House on 11 June 1932, and Sirenarum Carmen Ulixi Cantatum, a Poem which obtained the Montagu Butler Prize 1952 by Anthony Theodore Combridge; _A Latin Epigram which obtained Sir William Browne's Medal 1952 by Anthony John Leslie Lloyd; Samson and Delilah, a Poem which obtained Sir William Browne's Medal for Latin Verse 1952 by Michael Christopher Stokes; and Translation into Greek Verse which obtained The Porson Prize 1952 by William Geoffrey Arnott.

birth of a child to Captain Sarmon: Gayton