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Comprising: settlement of fortune on marriage of Mary Ellen Parker and Edward Joseph Rose; appointment of trustees; release by Mary Ellen Rose of trust premises under marriage settlement.

18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.—Is unable to dine with him and meet Runciman. She enjoyed her stay at Vinters.

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18 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, W.
July 7th 1909

Dear Mr Montagu

Its most nice of you to ask me to dine to meet Mr Runciman. Alas! Alack! I am afraid I cant as I am already dining out that evening. Its very sad and I wish very much I could chuck the other. Thank you so much.

I liked Vinters very much too. I must write a Collins to Olive for it.

Yours sincerely
Venetia Stanley

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Black-edged paper.

Barr Cottage, Bishop's Hull, Taunton, Somersetshire. - Was granted £20 by the Royal Literary Fund four years ago; now approaching 77 and less able to support herself though still writing; lost £3000 fortune long ago through deaths of five brothers; brought up her orphaned nephew Joseph Hawkey who has just died in India; seeks Royal Literary Society support.

Grateful for Milnes' part in securing him a Literary Fund grant; would like vacant Assistant-Librarian's post at the British Museum; plans to move to London; cannot do literary work for a living.

Library, British Museum. - Requests loan of £12 as he has taken a house for his growing family; has lived hitherto on two thirds of his income.

With news agency label addressed to A. E. Scanes.

Newport, Rhode Island. - Success of The Scarlet Letter etc in England; Hawthorne has enhanced unpoetic life of New England with a romance of its past; Hawthorne's reclusive habits; encloses an autograph [no longer present]; is sending Hawthorne's last volume, and a pamphlet of his own, via Chapman in the Strand. Report of poor American display at the Great Exhibition will be a timely blow to national vanity, but it does demonstrate America's lack of an underclass 'to produce luxuries for others, while they starve themselves'; hopes the same can be said in 1951 or 2051. Would like to revisit London. Has read Mrs Browning's noble new poem [Casa Guidi Windows] and Companions of My Solitude [by Arthur Helps]. Postscript: letters should always be addressed to Cambridge, Mass.

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'.

16 Upper Brook Street [on embossed House of Commons notepaper]. - Would like to see proof again; Mr. Cheney's papers must be sent for revision immediately.

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?]