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Trinity College Cambridge - rooms in Whewell's Court rather empty, Cambridge looks glorious

Kirkton, Isla. Rannoch Moor, attempt to ascend Lochnagar, "no getting out of sport" in Scotland.

325 Portland Crescent, Leeds. - Sends a Memorial [no longer present] concerning his eldest son [Thomas William Nixon], a sizar at Magdalene College Cambridge; he works hard but needs support to complete his education; Yorkshire friends have mentioned Houghton's sympathy towards the less privileged.

2 Regent St., Rochdale. - Seeks recommendation to Alexander Redgrave for post of Certifying Surgeon under the Factory Act for the Rochdale district; present holder is no longer equal to the work; became familiar with machinery accidents as a medical officer at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Pontefract. - George Smith is an impostor: alleged relatives do not know him; Muscroft has had no letter. With enclosure: letter from George Smith. Discusses business misfortune and ill health; needs funds for journey to Pontefract; relatives and contacts there; seeks Government situation for his son (the bearer of the letter).

Pontefract. - Opposes further grant; Government's attempt to regulate Catholic clergy will not succeed; salaries for priests would have to follow; supports political rights of Catholics but not financial support by the English:

Cambridge. - Seeks Income Tax clerkship vacant by death of Charles Thrower; almost penniless; Milnes' promise to help his mother's family; will he speak to 'The head of The Government' on behalf of a brokenhearted man'.

Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. - Dedicated his poems Forest and Fireside Hours to Milnes; sent three copies last year and has another in white vellum to present; publication expenses not met by subscriptions; has retired to native district on health grounds; hopes to start a school; has testimonials; hopes Milnes will recommend him; the venture will allow him leisure 'for wooing the Muse - making such devotion the pleasure & not the business of Life, as you once commended me for doing'.

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?].

Tiverton. - Thanks him for 'his' letter with the good news about his mother. Will 'keep (or leave behind me) this letter, in the hope that you may be amused some day by reading it'. Was very glad to hear of his birth as she knew it would make his parents and grandfather very happy; hopes to see him next summer. Signed 'Anty Ett'.