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Shortened version of HOUG/DF/1/63. Refers to Houghton's specimens of Cromwell, Robespierre and General Grant. With news agency label addressed to 2nd Lord Houghton.

Cutting from unidentified newspaper. Refers to Houghton's specimens of Cromwell, Robespierre and General Grant. With news agency label addressed to 2nd Lord Houghton.

A threatening letter addressed to a republican, who is described as a partisan of Robespierre.

(The message concludes, ‘Nous sommes Les amis de lordre social et de la Royauté’. Certified as a true copy by Lévêque.)

Hollygrove Lodge, Worstead, Norwich [on embossed notepaper for The Norfolk Club]. - Houghton acknowledged the copy of Morgan's Alexander Pope letter by stating that he no longer collected autographs; Morgan was not offering the original but merely seeking Houghton's opinion as to date and recipient; perhaps he would now return it.

Widmore Cottage, Bromley, Kent. - Sorry to hear of fire damage to Houghton's manuscripts but hopes he might notice something in looking through them. Nathaniel Parker Forth was detained in France after the rupture of the Peace of Amiens and died there in 1809; payments to him by the French Royal Family. Henfrey's grandmother, Forth's daughter, used to recount his exploits, including a tale of his having saved Marie Antoinette from the mob.

Includes obituaries for John Dexter, Bertie Hope-Davies, James Mossman, and John Wood. Includes an issue of The Listener 14 Oct. 1976 with an article by Shaffer, " Peter Shaffer on faith, farce and masks."

Includes profiles about both Peter and Anthony Shaffer, and Shaffer's article, "My three years in this grim and disgusting family business..." in the Evening Standard dated 14 Jan. 1972. There is also an entire issue of The Daily Mail for 9 June 1981, the Times 2 section of The Times for 18 May 2001, an entire issue of Theatregoer Magazine from 2001, and a letter from Derrick F. Mead of Peat Marwick dated 27 Feb. 1985 forwarding an article from The Sunday Telegraph magazine.

Smith attended the 6th Universal Postal Union Conference in Rome in May 1906. Preparatory notes for trip; sketches and notes made there by Babington Smith; postcards and other ephemera. Three of the photographic postcards depict the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in April 1906.

Includes poems, a speech to the Dante Society [1909]; sketches; diagrams of an engineering project; and exercises in classical languages. Also notes on Humphrey Babington (1615-1692)'s provision regarding rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Michael James Babington Smith's descent from the Babington family [c 1920], as well as notes on the Stirling family of Kippendavie.

Envelope labelled in Shaffer's hand; previously held items 1-2, 4, 7-14.

Typescript pages revised by Shaffer in an envelope labelled "Shriving Act I (carbon)." Originally stored with item 3 in an envelope labelled in Shaffer's hand, “Battle of Shrivings. MSS.”

Typescript pages heavily revised by Shaffer in a folder labelled "Shrivings. Act I (Revised)." Pages are unnumbered, and some sheets have been folded in half.

Congratulates him on his engagement to Eveleen Tennant. Mentions that she has returned home from her travels and has much work to do, "proofs, People's Concerts & so on" in addition to the busy Christmas holiday.

A13/3 has been listed under this head because it was sent to Dawson Turner with a letter from Lady Hooker.

(The directions of the franked letters are signed ‘H free Gurney’, not ‘W. H. Gurney’, as stated in the Index (O.14.51), p. 161 et seq.)