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(Typed, except the date, the signature, and a few corrections, etc.)

a) Activities 10 April 1940 (first meeting) to 29 September 1941.
b) 18 September 1941-8 June 1942 (also mentions purchase of uranium, 9 December [1939?]).

40 Mecklenburgh Sqr. W.C. Thanks him for his kind words about his edition of Sophocles for the Loeb Classical Library, find his hendecametric experiment a tour de force.

Edinburgh - Thanks WW for his last letter. He is sorry that there is a view in the south prevailing, which suggests both he and David Brewster have been at 'dagger's drawing' over their late contest [for Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University, see JDF to WW, 31 Mar. 1833 ] - the opposite was the case. JDF still thinks that an abridgement to WW's book on mechanics [The First Principles of Mechanics: With Historical and Practical Illustrations, 1832] 'with some leading propositions for the 3 first sections of Newton (taken from your 'Introduction') and concluded with a comprehensive mathematical theory of Hydrostatics' would be really useful [see JDF to WW, 31 Mar. 1833].

Typescript and photocopied sheets, heavily edited in Shaffer's hand, with one page edited in an unidentified hand. Titled "First draft screenplay, April 23, 1982" on title.

4 Deptford Bridge, Deptford, Kent. - Must visit the sea owing to recurrence of complaint; has found a situation at £15 a year; vital support by Milnes and Lady Galway's Trustees; encloses letter from Mr Wyndham who gave £5 as a result of Milnes' testimonial.

Enclosure: letter, postmarked 24 May 1841, from Wadham Wyndham, MP to Charles Sager, written in 3rd person. Arthurs Club, St James St. - Now residing in London; can offer some financial relief. Pencilled shorthand on seal flap and back of envelope.

Paris (4bis, rue des Ecoles) - Would like to have the second volume of 'The Idea of Immortality', which he has seen announced, and 'The Scapegoat' as well.

Ashfield. - Her father read his paper 'A Historical Sketch of Warrington Academy' to the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire on 11 Nov. 1858; he based it upon rescued memoranda of the Rev. J. Seddon; can send a copy, or Houghton might care to visit; her father's own copy is embellished with interesting letters and notes about Warrington. Cannot send 'Use of Books to Working Men' as their only perfect copy is bound with other items; it was a lecture to the Tuckerman Institute of Liverpool on 14 Feb. 1855. Encloses two hymns [no longer present], a sonnet on Longfellow and one on Mr Green; her father did not wish them to be republished. No news of Allan yet.

Enclosure: Copy of Henry Bright's verse 'To Longfellow in England, 1868', "as it appeared in Mr Hall Caine's Sonnets of Three Centuries" [copy made 1884?].

Concerning Milnes' Observations on the History of Thomas Earl of Lancaster.