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Trinity College. Encloses his Latin inscriptions for Prior and Sedley Taylor, noting his use of the nominative case as Sedley Taylor is not declinable and the debate over the declinability of Prior would "excite acrimonious controversy."

Down Farnborough, Kent. Discusses the difference between two genuses of barnacle, Chthamalus and Balanus and mentions specimens sent, and encloses a drawing of the two; has been going through Thompson's collection and finds it admirable. Comments on Thompson's book, does not like the separation of English and Latin text. Recommends a book by E. S. Dixon on poultry as it is very good and amusing. Is headed to Malvern to try a water cure.

A document dated 28 Aug. 1849 and sent on to Trinity dated 10 June 1850 lists five items donated to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College by Thomas Kidd, and encloses the original grant of the office of Master to Richard Bentley, with the letter from Thomas Thorpe to Kidd dated 8 Feb. 1830 by which he presented it to Thorpe. Some of the books donated carried annotations by Richard Porson.

Sends a list of engraved gems found in ancient tombs at different places in Cyprus and now in the Cesnola collection of the New York Museum of Art.

Offering his collected works to the College.

Relating to the gift of a portrait of Bishop Hacket to Trinity College Cambridge.

Offering a photograph of a Greek manuscript of the Athanasian Creed in St Mark's Library, Venice to the College, with explanation of its source; copy of a letter by Rawdon Brown on 'the remaining seven photographs'.

R. N. Office, 22 Silver Street, Cambridge. Thanks them for their kindness and hospitality and for making him an honorary member of the High Table.

Accompanying a medal in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

Regarding memorials to A. J. Butler and his work on the Gioliti Press.

Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum. Clarifies that the electrotype of which the library sent him a rubbing is not a coin of Offa, but a silver penny of Aethilheard, Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of Offa.

Two letters to the Master, both 12 Feb. 1861 in which he requests permission to consult the Capell collection of Shakespeariana at the library; envelope recording those who have seen the letters, with dates from 15-18 Feb.; two copies of a letter to the Master and Fellows dated 11 May 1861 asking them to reconsider their refusal of permission.

The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House W.1. Concerns the proposal that an exchange be effected: seals in the College's possession which should be placed in the British Museum in exchange for an 18th century quadrant previously in the College's possession bought by Sir Hercules Read.

Thrumpton Hall, Derby. He has read the article, and states that the separation of Lord and Lady Byron had nothing to do with Lord Lovelace's allegations. "As far as Lady Byron is concerned I do not think there is any reason why the poet should not have a bust in the Abbey."

Royal Observatory Greenwich SE. Does not have time to sit for a photograph.

Trinity College stories gathered by McTaggart from Henry Jackson and others, numbered and arranged by date from 1896 to 1924. Includes light verses related to College matters by James Clerk Maxwell (no. 398), F. M. Cornford (no. 434, 445), and J. K. Stephen (no. 442), and a cutting of a poem about William Whewell by [Tom Taylor?] (no. 401); printed obituaries of William Hepworth Thompson, a letter from James Mayo dated 20 Jan. 1905, and two letters from Henry Jackson dated 8-9 Oct. 1879.

Copy typescript with a reproduced image of a terracotta[?] horseman with a Phrygian cap laid in loose.