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Typed list of papers gives 'Newton's Principia' as the tenth item in the box; this was probably an MS draft or proof of Rouse Ball's 1893 paper, but an attached note lists it as not present on 20 Aug. 1964.

Title from caption. Photograph of men in an eight on the river. A later hand has identified the men in the boat: C. W. Ehrlich (cox), Thomas L. C. Gregory, Bertram F. Crosfield, W. B. Savory, Edward M. Winterbotham, Clement Dru Drury, Lord O'Hagan, Paul P. Calligas, Thomas L. Bennett.

Hopes for improvement in Joseph's schoolwork, Robert B and John E B Mayor at Cambridge, mud to be cleaned out of moat: Acton Vicarage

Disappointed that Bristol lacks a memorial to J H Monk, G E Street has done wonderful work in revovating the cathedral

The Secretary of State for Education has supported the Inner London Education Authority's decision to cease to maintain the St James the Less Primary School

Sure SS was wise to give up farming, Spain "very much like India in all sorts of ways", wishes to visit Australia

In German.

Relief halftone, Cambridge Portrait Gallery No. 12 in the Supplement to The Gownsman

Airlie Lodge. - Thanks for Monographs; hopes to talk over the happy days they recall.

9 Esplanade, Lowestoft - Sends detailed instructions to the use of a hanging desk to enable an invalid to read in bed, which he and Mrs Blakesley have devised for him.

(The directions of the franked letters are signed ‘H free Gurney’, not ‘W. H. Gurney’, as stated in the Index (O.14.51), p. 161 et seq.)

Biographical verse re the careers of Thomson and Lord Balfour.

Thornes House. - 'Here comes Punch, but alas! no Judy' - Mary [her sister in law?] has a bad sore throat, and there is a 'cry against my leaving the Greeks' [her children?]. She and Mary had 'resolved on rebellion had we been able to bring our combined forces into action, nobody will believe me that a long evening drive is good for my health', and she would have enjoyed Milnes's lecture. But she must 'submit' and wish him 'every sort of success' and sympathy for his efforts on behalf of 'your honourable Neighbours'.

Hull Literary & Philosophical Society, Royal Institution, Albion Street, Hull. - Writes as desired by the Council of the Society to ask Houghton if he might deliver the Opening Address of the Session in November; invites Houghton to be his guest on this visit. Signs himself as President and Sheriff of Hull.

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