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London. Invites Wordsworth to visit with his acquaintance Richard Monckton Milnes (the bearer of this letter).

Tavistock House. - Houghton's reference to the Guild [of Literature and Art. in a speech to the Royal Literary Fund]; acknowledges shortcomings, but Act of Incorporation prevents appropriation of funds for first seven years; responsible management in the interim.

Embossed notepaper for St. Dunstans, Regents Park. - Coxe showed him letters of Francisque Michel referring to an MS of St. Brandan's [sic] voyage]; perhaps it will be suitable for the Philobiblon as the Roxburghe Club does not propose to print it. Encloses correspondence [no longer present]. Asks Houghton what he thinks of the Mystère de Saint Louis [published for the Roxburghe Club in 1871]; curious Anglo-French phrases.

Penshuret (on embossed notepaper, 77 Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, W.) - Recommends J. H. Woodward for Secretaryship of Newspaper Press scrubs: he was a Bristol clergyman but has been out of work since converting to Roman Catholicism fifteen years ago.

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.

The Knoll. - Sending papers [no longer present] on behalf of her aunt Harriet, who cannot intervene with Government on behalf of John Saunders owing to previous refusal of a pension; will Milnes forward the papers and destroy letter to her aunt. Harriet Martineau's feeble health.

Enclosed: letter from Katherine Saunders to Harriet Martineau, [Nov. 1858?]. St. Mary's Grove, Richmond. - Financial struggles of her husband, who has been deprived of work on the Railway Guide; could Martineau induce Bulwer Lytton or Milnes to approach Lord Derby? Her husband gave a successful lecture at Leeds but was too exhausted to appear at Manchester; his play has been his only consolation amid many disappointments. Encloses copy [no longer present] of letter sent to Derby through Bulwer Lytton. (2 ff.)

Copied by Robert Pemberton Milnes?

From unidentified British newspaper. Statement by Charles Dickens, 25 May 1858, on separation from his wife, as publicised in American journals.

From unidentified periodical.

Lisbon. - Her husband died on March 19th and has bequeathed a corrected copy of his Iberia Won to Milnes; shall it be posted, or kept until she is well enough to return to England?

On embossed notepaper for Heath Old Hall, Wakefield. - Sends account of the 'Ruskin controversy' [criticism of Wakefield labour conditions in Ruskin's Fors Clavigera] from a local newspaper, as Houghton had expressed interest in the matter; hopes he will take her side.

Enclosed: 'Fors Clavigera and Mr E. Green', press cutting from The Wakefield Express, 4 Mar. 1876.

Embossed notepaper, Hamilton House, Arlington Street, London. - Cannot give a Philobiblon Society breakfast this year as he is leaving for the continent on Saturday.

Copy in unidentified hand. Letters dated 14 Jan. 1726, 11 Feb. 1726, and 26 May 1727. On court affairs, including Jacobite concerns.

Brunswick Hotel, Hanover Square, on paper embossed with stag crest and the motto Jay Bonne Cause. - Forwards papers on first English Bible and early English books printed on vellum for Philobiblon Society Miscellanies; requests return of MS whether used or note; perhaps Miscellanies should be sent to the British Museum and other privileged libraries.

Glasgow College. - Sends text of Hyperion copied from his copy of the 'former MS', in which some words were barely legible; line 35 of the manuscript certainly had hour where Keats meant horn; illegible word in line 253 could have been environed or enwormed; another word could have ben waste or wait; has only noted variants for the old part of the poem.

On embossed notepaper, 30 Prince's Gate, W. - Volume of Ballads now ready, but Whittingham has not sent Houghton the leaves of ownership to sign; perhaps he could call there.

Aldenham. - Thanks for note about the Scaligers; unable to write proposed notes as he cannot adequately express his feelings on the subject; will gladly amend proof article.

Incomplete.

Arlington Court, Barnstaple. - Called away from London by illness of stepson; hopes to visit Paris in April; anxious to see George Coleman's [Rodiad?]; shared stories of 'birch practice' with him in latter years; an acquaintance of Coleman's ascribed his own madness to childhood flogging. Longs to see Milnes's 'maître and maîtress' [an erotic porcelain group]; describes a china clock incorporating a flogging scene offered for sale at Brighton a few years ago; summoned courage to buy it after two days but found it had been sold to Lord Petre. In 1828 the Marquis d'Aligre showed him a Sèvres figure of Madame Dubarry supervising a birching, with other identifiable possessions, which was not in his possession when he died; recounts court anecdote alleged to have inspired the model; 'my friend the General', a cousin of the Marquis, did not know what had become of the group but thought it might have passed to Louis Philippe. Will get the work Milnes recommends. Exchanges erotic French books with 'a young [female] friend in Bryanston Square'; his 'clerical friend' is limited to English works but she has not yet read Fanny Hill.

61 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth Road, London S.E. - Graham was formerly a railway engineer at Leeds; has suffered in the trade conflicts and seeking work. Postscript: Graham's dignified demeanour caused jealousy. Enclosure: printed address to James Graham from fellow workmen at the North Eastern Railway Locomotive Department, Leeds, 'on his leaving to partake of a better situation'.

Including response to Richard Monckton Milnes’s Letter to Lord Lansdowne (pub. 1849) on the events of 1848

Perhaps incomplete - beginning only?

Labelled 'Henry Hallam Inscription. | Includes a draft I think in Mr Gladstone's handwriting, also a note from Lord Palmerston.| 1863'

With additional note from A. Borghi.