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Montepulciano (Prov. di Siena). - Has had news from Elsa Dallolio of I Tatti, who paid her first visit there on B.B. [Berenson]'s seventieth birthday: Mary [Berenson] dined and seemed well; his own opinion is that she is getting better but also grows intolerant of everything going 'against either her hopes or her prejudices'. Elizabeth is amazed at her fluctuations in health. However there is something 'big' in her so that those with her must 'feel the benefit of her greatness' even when sharing her life has inconveniences. B.B. was very healthy, but a month of life at I Tatti at the height of the season in Florence has tired him. Mary is due to go to Vienna soon, then B.B. and Nicky [Mariano] leave for Venice; he is tempted to join them there but put off by the heat. The music at Florence has been mixed: began with hearing [Adolf] Busch's rehearsals of the Brandenburg concerto and was very taken buy the performance, though he regretted the choice of the 'modern' piano over the clavichord despite Serkin's beautiful performance). The Weingartner performance of [Beethoven's] ninth symphony was uneven. Was sorry not to hear "Norma"; found Serafin's conducting of some other Italian vocal pieces lacking delicacy; Bruno Walter gave a good performance of [Mozart's] "Seraglio", an uneven one of Mozart's "Requiem", and a difficult Mozart concerto at Palazzo Vecchio. Saw Gluck's "Alceste" on an immense scale in the Boboli gardens. [John] Walker is here again and settled in Rome: B.B. is worried that he will be distracted by 'too many girls and women'. Hopes he will see Trevelyan at the Consuma in August, where he will go to allow Nicky to take her holiday in Sorrento. Hopes Bessie Trevelyan is doing well after her operation.

Bristol. - Did not reply to Milnes' letter from Paris as passage of Bill rendered an interview with Palmerston unnecessary; certificate for Kingswood; girls' reformatories needed; Lady Noel Byron has bought an Elizabethan house [Red Lodge] for the purpose; hopes proposed school will be self-supporting but in the meantime would be glad of funds.

Pamphlets by Whewell: Considerations on the "General principles in regard to Colleges proposed for consideration" by the Cambridge University Commissioners dated 1 Jan. 1858, and Suggestions respectfully offered to the Cambridge University Commissioners dated 18 July 1858, with a printed letter from Whewell to the Fellows dated 23 June 1858.

Has written out his thoughts for Sraffa as promised; has to lecture tomorrow but physically very low; wishes to see Sraffa before he goes down.

In Hertz's own hand. 'III' written in blue crayon on front original flyleaf. Hertz's address given in the margin of the first page of the paper: 'Prof. Dr. Hertz, Wadstr. 33, Karlsruhe'. Several annotations and corrections throughout the text of the paper, including to the title. First subtitle crossed out, another below in brackets: 'Aus den Sitzungsberichten der Berliner Akadamie vom 2 Feb. 1888, mit einigen Zusätzen' [as appeared in the paper's second publication in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol. 34].

In general, the sketches seem to have been done first in pencil and then gone over in sepia and/or black ink line and wash. In one sketch, 'Girton Lecturer Diffusing Sweetness And Light', depicting Duff with a number of Girton College students, the wash is watercolour paint rather than ink. Many of the sketches are initialled 'E. M.' for Eveleen Myers; the date is often added, 1887 in all cases. Duff and Babington Smith are almost always identified, usually with initials, occasionally by name.

Most of the sketches are given titles, as follows: Untitled (landscape with castles); 'Between two Hemispheres'; 'Two ways of greeting the sun'; 'Rough? or Smooth?'; untitled [Duff and Babington Smith conversing); 'Breakfast 12.30 P. M.'; 'Arcades ambo. Mr H. B. Smith & Mr Duff. 3. A.M.'; 'The midnight oil'; 'two heads are better than one'; 'A Bear-Fight Extraordinary' (including A. H. Clough the younger); 'The Young Idea'; 'Back From Cyprus!'; 'Hero Bombarding A Hat'; 'The Early Bird And The Late Worm | Breakfast. 11 A.M.' ('Worm' and 'Bird' are transposed in a correction above the original title); 'Highland chieftains: Clan Duff & Clan Smith'; 'The Macduff, On The Rampage'; 'Greek Messenger Describing Death of Jocasta' [Babington Smith acted in the 1887 Cambridge Greek Play production of *Oedipus Tyrannus'; 'Girton Lecturer Diffusing Sweetness And Light'; 'Intelligent Sympathy'; 'Practical Consolation'; 'New brooms sweep clean - reforms of H. B. S. in the Education Office'; 'After The Battle - An Enemy's Counsel' [scene from a game of whist or bridge]; 'Savoy Theatre: a 'Bond' of affection'; 'Thus We Two Parted. In Silence And Pain; / We Were Half-Broken Hearted - But Soon Met Again!!'; 'A Donkey-Race For the Tripos'.

The Girton students depicted with J. D. Duff are Gertrude Mary Butler, Edith Mary Bough, Edith Lydia Johns, Mary Hay Wood, Jane Lily Edwards, Sylvia Grant [later Farmer], Beatrice Geraldine Hudson [later Colby], Jane Ewing Wilson [later Hannay], and Augusta Klein [later Kirby].

With note, 5 May 1969, from Mary Duff explaining some details of the Girton picture.

This collection contains, firstly, the surviving contents of the Pethick-Lawrences’ correspondence files, including letters from, and copies of letters to, a wide range of politicians and public figures. It also contains papers relating to the Lawrence family and the early life of F. W. Lawrence; articles and scripts of talks by Lord Pethick-Lawrence; correspondence between the Pethick-Lawrences themselves; papers of Lady Constance Lytton; papers relating to the separation of the Pethick-Lawrences from the Women’s Social and Political Union; and papers relating to prison conditions. The collection includes particularly notable material on the subjects of Indian independence, the suffrage movement, and other aspects of social reform.

Bristol. - Seeking information for her work on reformatory schools; sources already consulted; her own work locally; Mr Fletcher's report to the Education Council; inability of ragged schools to provide the moral teaching necessary for true reformation without proper state support; recommends provision of schools 'on the Aberdeen and Glasgow plan' and juvenile reformatories to keep children out of prisons.

Includes: Correspondence with Anne Nill (Mrs. Voynich's companion) with an account of her death.
Correspondence with Winifred Gaye, 1961-69 (`who thought not legally adopted by me has always been considered by me as a daughter' according to Mrs. Voynich's Will).
Correspondence re Mrs. Voynich's estate and portrait.