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A draft of a translation of the poem, picking up from the last lines of the printed version of part of the poem, which has been bound in front of the draft.

The verse is prefaced by Matilda Warburton 'Lines sent by my dear Husband to his sisters when he thought himself dying at Dublin'. First lines: 'Gentle Even! thou art dying / As I, ere they return, may die...'

Pencil number '3' added to front.

Asks Whewell's opinion of his interpretation of new research into Bacon's submission and confession and speculates that the final book on Bacon will not be written in their time.

Two letters concerning Whewell's article on Herschel.

Two letters; the first requesting him to write a review of Mrs Somerville's [On the connexion of the physical sciences], the second his thanks for the 'spirited review'.

(Letter-head of the Houghton Library.)

Longmans, Green, & Co., 6 & 7 Clifford Street, London, W.1.—They cite a review of V. L. Griffith's Experiments in Education.

(Undated. Postmarked 29(?) Jan. 1905.)

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In your Court Records p. 93 (13 April 1603) you may care to refer to Arber II. 38. There was a London edition of the Lepanto published by Stafford and Hooke, 1603. A copy was in Bindley IV. 410—Heber IV. 1189—Britwell (private cat. of Eng. poetry II. 220, but not, apparently sold at Sotheby’s, see Checklist). See Arber III. 232.

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(Place of writing not indicated.)—Discusses watermarks in quartos in the Huntington Library.

'Please to give Bearer a copy of Darien for Mr Monckton Milnes'.

Presentation note.

Most of the items included in this category are letters, and most are connected with the publications into which they are inserted.

Presentation letter.

Palsgrave Head Court near Temple Bar -- Thanks him for the present; has cancelled the leaf of the Saxon Coins containing p. 218 and sends the new one to Ducarel after the Archbishop of Canterbury pointed out an error. The leaf is not with the letter and may be the one now bound in the volume.

Presentation letter, thanks him for his kindness in Cambridge. 'I wish I had that Library of yours about a mile under my Lee.'

Presentation letter.

Oxford. - Has 'sought vainly' among his brother Eliot's possessions for something he might send as a memorial of him to Milnes, 'but the very few personal matters he possessed perished with him in the Amazon'. Asks if Milnes will accept something accompanied by this letter; had 'two or three to be made for his friends, whom I knew he held to his heart most deeply; had I sent them in the order he would have wished, I know you should have had it before anybody else, but I was anxious to make sure of your being in town'.

Presentation letter.

(An engraved form, filled up by hand, including an engraving of the Museum by E. H. New, 1910.)

Villa Riquet, Arcachon France. - Supplies further details on the two Páli texts he has sent to Trinity Library.

35 Mecklenburgh Square, London W. C. - Has forwarded 'a copy of the Pāli Manuscript Subha Sutta', and asks that it might be added to the collection of Pāli MSS already at Trinity.

Bridge House, Matlock, Derbyshire. - Sent a 'small Páli MS and a printed Buddhist tract to Trinity Library yesterday, and with this letter sends his copy of Rask's Sinhalese gramma, 'a work of exceeding rarity, and which I do not think any English library possesses. Gives him great pleasure 'to confide this valuable volume to such able and enlightened keeping as that of the Master and fellows of Trinity College.'

68 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, London - Hopes that Wright will accept for the Library at Trinity 'a Pali manuscript in the Burmese Character... It is the Káraka Kappa of Kaccáyana's Páli Grammar'.