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

Dingle Cottage, Ledbury. - Today received 'the cleverly executed miniature which certainly does recall one expression of that most dear countenance [her late husband Eliot Warburton]'. Did not think 'so good a likeness could be produced'. Recognises the added interest the portrait has 'coming to me from the hands of his two best friends'; gratefully accepts the gift 'in memory of an affection which followed my husband through life' and as evidence of continued friendliness towards herself. Is going to stay with her brother-in-law George Warburton and his wife when they are settled in Kent, and will pass through London, but is unsure whether she will see Milnes there, but will certainly 'obey the summons whenever you tell me again "to come and see you in Yorkshire"'. Asks to be remembered to Milnes' wife; will not 'forget her Orphans but all my people will belong to the wrong Asylum'.

Pencil number '2' added on first page.

The Works are listed in order of first production, or date of writing if not produced, with all associated correspondence, writings, printed material gathered under the title. The correspondence in this series has been listed, if not fully catalogued, and is arranged in date order. Materials are still being catalogued, and will be added when this complete.

Junior U[nited] S[ervices] Club - London. - There is still 'reasonable ground of hope' [that his brother Eliot Warburton survived the sinking of of the Amazon in the Bay of Biscay on 4 Jan. 1852]; knows his brother 'was completely dressed on the deck, calm and collected', having heard from Mr [Frederick] Glennie, a passenger already rescued who knew him well. His brother's wife and their sister are here at 23 Savile Row, and 'full of hope, the suspence [sic], however, is little less dreadful than the last certainty'. Knows Milnes will sympathize with them in 'the time of bitter trial'.

Pencil number '2' added on first page.

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'.

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.

With Gow's bookplate on the inside front cover.

'Introduction' (f. 2); 'The House of Pelops in Homer' (ff. 3-20); 'First Chorus' (ff. 21-24); 'The second chorus' (ff. 25-28); 'The plot of the Agamemnon' (ff. 29-39); 'Third Chorus' (ff. 40-41); '800-965' (ff. 42-47); '1449-1576' (ff. 48-49); ff. 50-51 unused; 'Manuscripts' (ff. 52-530); rest of book blank.

Text mostly on recto only. References in margin.

Title on spine: 'Fitzgerald's Translations | Original Letters and Proof Sheets | Vol. II' [Vol. I is O.10a.42, a volume of letters from Fitzgerald to Quaritch'. 'Extremely interesting & valuable' written in pencil on the first leaf; note below, identifies the hand as Quaritch's. All following items tipped in onto trimmed paper stubs.

Letter from William Aldis Wright to Bernard Quaritch writing as FitzGerald's executor, 22 Jun 1883.

Nine letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch, 24 Mar. 1879-4 Jun. 1879; the last letter in the book, [Apr. 1979], has a strip of printed proof pasted to it, with corrections by FitzGerald in ink. Letter to FitzGerald, 17 Apr. 1879, incomplete and without signature but from Edward Byles Cowell [see preceding letter, and pencil note at bottom of FitzGerald's letter of 20 Apr.]

Printed proofs of title page, with annotations by FitzGerald, and sub-title page of Jami's Salámán and Absál; proof from the 'Notes' to Omar Khayyám, paginated 35-36, with MS sheet in FitzGerald's hand pasted to it; two versions of revised proofs of pp. 97-112 of Salámán and Absál, with corrections and comments by FitzGerald, including a sheet of paper pasted on at the verso of the second p. 112; printed leaves from the first edition of the Life of Jami, 4 ff., with numerous revisions by FitzGerald, including an MS slip pasted to the recto of the fourth sheet; printed copy of the first edition of Salámán and Absál [1856]., 23 ff., paginated 1-45, with extensive corrections by FitzGerald including slips pasted in at various places.

References to 'the Critic' in the correspondence and notes are to Michael Kerney, Quaritch's chief assistant, cataloguer, and literary adviser.

Most letters in the run Nos. 1-96 are letters from FitzGerald to Quaritch, 21. Apr. 1953-23 Feb. 1883. Letters from others have been described in dependent entries. Several letters annotated by Quaritch. Notes by Charlotte Quaritch Wrentmore at several places indicating that a letter from FitzGerald to Quaritch belonging to this point in the chronological sequence is to be found in the book bound up by her father, now O.10a.41.

A loose card with a typewritten record of provenance was found loose within the covers; this has been cut down from a printed ticket to provide admittance to Trinity College Library 'before 11 A. M.', with space for 'Name' 'Recommended by' 'during the... Quarter, 189...' to be filled in.

With note signed by Shaffer on cover, "2nd Version, typed up & finished Jan 27th 1961." Typescript draft, with emendations in Shaffer's hand. The draft contains multiple versions of scenes, and does not appear to be a final draft.

190: Includes the recollection of a visit from Houghton and Eliot Warburton 'when you both dressed up as Turks and sat cross legged on the sofa, to the astonishment and admiration of my children'.

Letter from Hofreiter dated 19 Apr. 1951 with a carbon copy of Davenport's reply 1 Aug. 1951. Hofreiter thanks Davenport for the reprints and points out an error in his "Note on a binary quartic form." Davenport replies that as it does not really affect his argument he won't be issuing a corrigendum.

Great Hundridge Manor, Great Missenden, Bucks. - 'Thank you... for the article on Gaselee'.

Original title: Academie Des Sciences, communication de: Sir Anthony Epstein. Conférence Humphry Davy The lecture is delivered in French, with a question answered in English.

Two clips from HTV News, each three and a half minutes long, with a clip from BBC News West which is four minutes, twenty seconds long covering the same announcement, and stating that clinical trials are due to start in the coming year. Epstein is referred to as the co-discoverer of the virus.