1 sheet (with two following) is headed 'List of MSS missing in May 1838. Copied from the brief in the case of Trin. Coll. v. Brit. Mus. [1845-1847]'
Signed by the President, Remsen B. Ogilby. Sent on the occasion of Trinity, Hartford's, first centenary (the college was founded in 1823, and moved to its first campus in 1824). With thanks for the kindness shown by Trinity, Cambridge, to the new college.
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.
Re memorial for Sir John Simeon.
From the [Morn?]ing Post.
Visiting card of Charles Adam, Membre de l'Institut, Recteur de l'Université de Nancy, with note thanking Sir James and Lady Frazer for the copy of 'Sur les traces de Pausanias'.
Declines invitation for 17th; seeks Colonial appointment next spring 'in a temperate climate and where representative institutions prevail'; would not accept Ceylon under any circumstances.
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.
Invitation to lunch
Including response to Richard Monckton Milnes’s Letter to Lord Lansdowne (pub. 1849) on the events of 1848
(A printed form filled up by hand. Signed as Secretary.)
(Three messages. The first, by John Brightwen, is wanting.)