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.)
(Two messages. Pasted to the back is a memorandum by Wright describing manuscripts in the British Museum.)
On embossed notepaper, Carlton Club. - Encloses card [no longer present]; seeks vote for Ferdinand Ahrens.
Replies from Sir Arthur Fadden (Australia), 23 Dec. 1955; J.T, Watts (New Zealand), 24 Dec. 1955; Shri Chintaman Deshmukh (India), 10 Dec. 1956; Chaudhry Mohammed Ali (Pakistan), 25 Jan. 1956; E.H. Louw (South Africa), 6 Jan. 1956.
On headed notepaper for Rollin & Feuardent, 61 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.