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Eliza has been too ill to write a reply to Elsie's letter. Update on the state of her health and description of the doctor's orders to stay in bed and take 'milk and invalid slops'. She felt well enough to give an address for 80 mothers. Percy, Charlotte, and Edith Shelley are coming to visit for a dinner event. She enclosed the book making a few additions at the end for Alice's benefit [Elsie's daughter]. Sends her love to Elsie, Alice and Rowland [Elsie's husband]. Signs name as 'Aunt Lizzie'.

Material assembled by I. M. James during the preparation of his Royal Society memoir of Adams, with letters from Tony Bahri (includes photograph of Adams on top of a sculpture in 1983), Geoffrey Best, Peter Bousfield, and A. B. Clegg.

On embossed paper for the Savile Club, 15 Savile Row, W. - Sends article from The Nineteenth Century on the child criminal [no longer present]; the writer is well-informed and seeks to re-establish a reformatory system that has been allowed to lapse; ignorant politicians are to blame; invites Houghton to contribute an article on the work at Redhill to Our Times; earnest support of the late Prince Consort did much to raise public interest.

W[est] R[iding] Prison, Wakefield. - Number of strokes not to exceed twelve when whipping juvenile offenders; thanks for Return. Extract from law pertaining to whipping of juvenile and other offenders appended; in different hand.

Extract from unidentified periodical; originally reported in the Gloucester Reporter.

Hanover Square, Leeds. - Invitation to preside at annual meeting of Leeds Ragged & Industrial School; proposed girls' school.

Red House Lodge. - Mr [Robert] Lowe's changes in the revised code [on education]; suggests amendments regarding certification of teachers for ragged schools; has informed Mr Lowe and Sir Stafford Northcote.

Red House Lodge. - Encloses papers [no longer present] outlining local objections to Hardwicke Resoliutions; has ben attacked by the Bristol Guardians on account of evidence given to the Poor Law Committee.

Darnall Hall, Sheffield. - Funding of juvenile reformatories; charity status is preferable to state support; sending pamphlets [not present].

Both relating to the Warwickshire and Birmingham Reformatory Institution; containing speech by Milnes.

At Mr Whitehurst's, Chirk.—Describes his journey (from Nuneaton), visiting Whitchurch and his sister at Llangollen. Is going to Croisllwd (Croesllwyd?) for the signing of an agreement.

(This letter was written some time between the departure of Francis Henry Egerton to Paris in 1802 and the death of his cousin the 3rd Duke and 6th Earl of Bridgewater on 8 March 1803. Since it comprises only a single sheet and there is no valediction, it is possible that it is incomplete.)

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At Mr Whitehurst’s. Chirk
Friday Morning—

My dear Jane

Humphrey myself & two Sisters came here yesterday morning & stay’d dinner &c & Hump[h]r[e]y & I stopped all night—I had a very pleasant Journey to Wales thro’ Lichfield Stafford Eccleshall Market Drayton where I slept & started the next morning at six oClock for Whitchurch where I breakfasted I went to see the Church which is one of the handsomest I ever saw & so is the Income about 4000 £ P[e]r Annum the Rector is the Hon: Mr Eggerton first cousin to the Earl of BridgeWater who is the patron, the Rector is now in france has four Curates at 75 £ each but one is just left to take possession of a College living & the Other three are going to petition the trustees to divide his Salary between them & not to elect a fourth, the three Curates thinking themselves quite competent to do the duty between them—prayers every day, the other duty but little more than Nuneaton if any—From thence I came to Hanmer Overton by Winstay to Rhuabon & Llangollen where I safely arrived both me {1} & my Mare well & hearty between three & four in the afternoon on Tuesday Evening—My Sister Sally came to the door & did not know me until I spoke to her—She had been a little unwel† a week or two before but is fast recovering—I am going this Morning to Croisllwd to see Hugo with Mr Whitehurst Hump[hre]y David Edwards to sign an agreement between him & his Brothers that he shall have a Lease of all his Eldest Brother’s Lands for one and twenty years or for the joint lives of both his Brothers for their lives at a very low rent—I purpose being at home by Saturday week as I first {2} intended & unless you hear again from me to the contrary which is not likely you will expect me then—

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Some abbreviations by superscript letters have been expanded, the letters supplied being printed in square brackets. In the MS the indefinite article ‘a’ is sometimes attached to the succeeding word.

{1} A mark resembling a letter ‘d’ has been written over this word in pencil.

{2} Spelling uncertain.

† Sic.

The essay is in Gosse’s own hand, and his name is written at the head and at the end. On the front of the slip-case is stamped, ‘ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDENS | MSS. | — | EDMUND GOSSE’.

Payment of bills, has bought the lease of [ ]

Disagreement with the Chapter

Visit of the King and address to Parliament

House of Lords

Preached twice at Westminster Abbey

Has sold Mr Butler's trees, pleased of news of Mr Butler's preferment, local players

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.

36 Cadogan Place, forwarded to Milnes at Dublin. - Sends results of enquiries: only other option is to house boys with respectable people and send them to a National School. Encloses letter [undated] from Robert Hanbury, who sends Boys' Refuge prospectus and says that the Governor can furnish further details; the printed prospectus is still present, containing plan, illustration, and list of subscribers.

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.

MS copies of the correspondence of Newton and Roger Cotes and others, gathered in preparation for Edleston's Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes, including Letters of Other Prominent Men (London, 1850). This group of copies does not include all of the letters printed, but does include some materials gathered for the notes to the life of Newton at the front of the volume. There are a letter from Dawson Turner dated 24 Mar. 1848 forwarding a transcription of a letter from Bentley (not present) and referring to other letters in his collection, and three printed figures, two of which were printed in the volume.