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104: Includes letter from Isabel Burton to Houghton, 2 Apr. [1880]
109: Dictated letter from Swinburne to Houghton, [27 Apr. 1880?], with autograph signature.

7 Old Jewry, London, sent to Milnes at the Hall, Bawtry. - The case containing Milnes' picture from R. R. Noel in Dresden has been delivered to Lord Crewe's residence on Hill Street, as instructed, and they therefore now enclose Milnes' account.

Item received from Messrs Schaar & Clauss, Hamburg.

7 Old Jewry, London, sent to Milnes at the Hall, Bawtry. - They have received Milnes' letter of 30 Nov., and have delivered his three packages to Lord Crewe's residence in Hill Street at his instructions. They therefore send accounts for expenses relating to these packages. They also enclose a letter just received from Schaar & Clauss of Hamburg, along with a bill of lading for an oil painting from Robert Ralph Noel of Dresden 'which is arrived by this afternoon's steamer'. They will be grateful for instructions for what to do with this.

Including letters of introduction, immediate bills and subsequent bills for carriage of goods.

Bawtry Station. - Acknowledging the receipt of Milnes' cheque for freight of goods from Crewe.

Colombo, 'Ratnapoora, last address'. - Thanks for Milnes' reply and the books, which must still be on their way up river; will draw up reminiscences when he has read Milnes' Keats; asks whether it was 'poor Jane Reynolds' who reported his death; contrast with unexpected deaths of others. Knows little of the MacCarthys. Will send books, which, 'as the biographer of Keats... [Milnes] ought to have'. Poem quoted by Milnes is one Keats copied in a letter from Oxford from a scare volume of poetry by Katherine Philips; Milnes might rebind it in honour of Keats and the writer. Bailey bought it at Thrale auction in 1816; also has a copy of the first edition of Endymion, which he reviewed in the Oxford Herald; has arranged for this review to be sent to Milnes; his other publications. Sir J. E. Tennant will vouch for the unpromising literary environment of Ceylon. Requests Moxon's edition of Keats.

'I extracted a sentence from one of Keats's letters to myself which sounds very melancholy... but which shows the just confidence he had in himself: "At one time or other I will do you a pleasure, and the poets a little justice; but it ought to be in a poem of greater moment than Endymion, I will do it some day". That day never came; but the fragment of Hyperion shows what he could have done, had his life been spared'.

On embossed notepaper of East India United Service Club. - Has 'found the original copy [of the omitted appendix 4, two pages of which appear in this book in print form, the rest in manuscript by an unknown hand], also a slip from Longman's'. Milnes can now judge if he thinks it interesting, as Burton does. Will return from Germany in about a month and get Milnes' opinion on reprinting it.

Four etchings, two of them signed at lower left M. Oliver Rae: "Trinity College - Cambridge (Through the Screens)" (plate mark 17.6 x 120 cm) and "Neville's Court, Trinity, Cambridge" (plate mark 27.6 x 190 cm). Two more are captioned at lower left, "by M. Oliver Rae" and are of "Trinity Avenue, Cambridge" (plate mark 17.5 x 11.9 cm) and "Trinity Great Court, Cambridge" (plate mark 27.7 x 18.2 cm). The image of Nevile's Court depicts the renovated southeast corner, built in 1926-1927.

3 Bolton St. - Thanks Lord Houghton for his note about the book [The American]; agrees that 'the Bellegardes are rather "belated". They would have been more probable under the old régime; but I suppose a novelist has always to force matters a little. But even to modified Bellegardes an American savoring much of the soil would never have been acceptable. The French don't at all like the Americans (according to my observation) - none, that is, save M. [Charles Frederick] Worth; & he, I believe, is English!. But the French, after all, don't like any one but the French!...'

Hopes that Houghton has completely recovered. Will leave town in a few days, but will visit Houghton before he does so. 'Yours faithfully & gratefully, H. James jr.'

The correspondence in this section is presented as follows:

J/1-J/341: Alphabetical by correspondent, 1927-1994.
J/342-J/412: Shorter scientific correspondence, 1936-1993. Presented in chronological order; indexed.
J/413-J/422: Requests for off-prints, 1940-1990. Presented in alphabetical order; not indexed.
J/423-J/443: References and recommendations, 1948-1985 and undated. Further subdivided as follows:
J/423-J/424: Grants and funding, 1948-1976
J/425-J/430: Higher degrees, 1950-1980
J/431-J/435: Royal Society, 1951-1985
J/436-J/437, Honours and awards, 1951-1983
J/438-J/442: Appointments and promotions, 1954-171
J/443: Requests for advice
Note that some recommendations etc appear in the files of correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent, J/1-J/341.

J/431: 1951, 1954-1956
J/432: 1964, 1970-1972
J/433: 1965-1969
J/434: 1967, 1970, 1973, 1978
J/435: 1980-1985

J/425: 1950–1952, 1954
J/426: 1955-1956
J/427: 1957, 1959–1961
J/428: 1963–1964, 1967, 1970
J/429: 1972–1974, 1976
J/430: 1977, 1980

Correspondence.

Synge was one of the examiners of the D.Phil. thesis submitted by Lahiri to the University of Calcutta, India. He subsequently sought Synge's advice on his postdoctoral career.

Jayasinghe came from Ceylon [Sri Lanka] to work with Synge at the Rowett Research Institute on protein digestion in the ruminant. He registered with University of Aberdeen as a research student for a Ph.D.

Correspondence, 1955-1958; includes thesis reports.

Correspondence, 1970, 1980.

J/6: Thesis report, 1961
J/7: Correspondence re research, 1976, 1993

A/1-A/77: biographical and personal material (1892-1996), arranged as follows: A/1-A/4, memoirs and obituaries; A/5-A/16, biographical and historical accounts and information; A/17, bibliographies; A/18-A/77, diaries.

A/78-A/116: material (1919-1945) relating to Synge's childhood and schooldays. A/78-A/82 is general material (1922-1926), A/83-A/100 relate to his time at Old Hill Preparatory School, and date from 1919-1945, and A/101-A/116 relate to Synge's time at Winchester College, and date from 1927-1933. A/117-A/153: material (1931-136) relating to Synge's time as an undergraduate, including manuscript and typescript notes on lectures and practical work, bound volumes of duplicated typescript work sheets for practical work (A/139-A/143), examination papers, correspondence etc. A/154-A/211: career, honours, and awards (1936-1992)

A/212-A/354: material relating to Synge's family. In some of the earlier material the family surname is spelled 'Sing' or 'Singe', reflecting its pronunciation. The current spelling seems to have been adopted consistently only after the First World War. Material arranged as follows: A/212-311, Laurence Millington Synge and Katherine Charlotte Synge, née Swan, Synge's parents; A/312-329, Ann Synge (née Stephen), his wife; A/330-335, Jane, Elizabeth, Patrick and Alexander, four of his seven children; A/336-343 Anne Dorothea (Anthea) and Katharine, Synge's sisters; A/344-347 Mary Synge, his paternal grandmother, and Emma Swan, his maternal grandmother; A/348-352; other relatives; A/353-354: miscellaneous family material. A/355-369: personal correspondence of Richard L. M. and Ann Synge (1920s-1991). Many correspondents are identified by first name only, and may include more distant relatives. A/370-377: requests for autographs, (1952-1992).

A/378-428: material related to Richard Synge's personal interests, arranged as follows: A/378-418, Politics. Synge was on the political Left. He was a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s. His later political activity concentrated on the peace movement and organisations concerned with human rights; A/419-426, Travel, though the bulk of the material relating to Synge's visits is to be found in section G; A/427, Cairngorm Club; A/428, Volunteers for lonising Radiation (VIR).

A/429-435: material relating to finance and business (1933-1991), including correspondence, accounts and expenses. A/436-432: miscellaneous material. A/443-470: photographs (1918-1991)

'Ancient Mineralogists' on spine. MS 'title page' on f. 1: 'Mineralogy of the Ancients. | The extant treatises of | Theophrastus, Orpheus, Plutarch or Parthenius, Epiphanius, Psellus, Marbodus, Mohammad ben Mansur. | Translated with Introduction and Notes | By C. W. King, M.A. | Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.'

A preface follows, which is dated 1 Feb. 1864. 'These translations formed part of the materials collected to serve in the composition of an extensive and detailed treatise upon the Natural History of Precious Stones and Metals... in course of preparation for the press' [published in 1865].

The first volume is dated by King on the first page after the front free endpaper 'Trin. Coll. Feb. 11. 1871', although the first edition of this work in fact appeared in 1864. The next page is dated 23 Nov. 1887, the year in which the second edition appeared. A mock-up of the title and facing page of the second edition follows, with an illustration, seal impression and Latin quotation [from Lucretius] follow, then two versions of the preface to the new edition, one of 37 ff. and the next of 26 ff. [unnumbered], then the contents pages of the new edition, 6 ff. The following manuscript of the first edition is written predominantly on blue paper: 46 ff. introduction and 2 ff. with a contents page and epigraphs, then the main text (foliated 1-407 in red throughout, though there are several other numbering schemes at various points).

The second volume has a contents page and epigraphs, 2 ff., then two sections, each foliated through in red, of 260 and 300 ff. The third volume has two sections, each foliated through in red, of 219 and 208 ff, blank, then 20ff foliated in pencil headed 'Woodcuts in the Text', and another section of 97 ff. headed 'Descriptions of the Plates'.

Indexed

J/342: 1936
J/343: 1937
J/344: 1938
J/345: 1939
J/346: 1940
J/347: 1941
J/348: 1942
J/349: 1943
J/350: 1944
J/351: 1945
J/352: Jan-Jun 1946
J/353: Jul-Dec 1946
J/354: Jan-Apr 1947
J/355: May-Dec 1947
J/356: 1948
J/357: Jan-Jun 1949
J/358: Jul-Dec 1949
J/359: Jan-Jun 1950
J/360: Jul-Sept 1950
J/361: Oct-Dec 1950
J/362: Jan-Jun 1951
J/363: Jul-Dec 1951
J/364: Jan-Jun 1952
J/365: Jul-Dec 1952
J/366: Jan-May 1953
J/367: Jun-Dec 1953
J/368: Jan-May 1954
J/369: Jun-Dec 1954
J/370: Jan-Jun 1955
J/371: Jul-Dec 1955
J/372: Jan-Jun 1956
J/373: Jul-Dec 1956
J/374: Jan-May 1957
J/375: Jun-Dec 1957
J/376: Jan-Jun 1958
J/377: Jul-Dec 1958
J/378: 1959
J/379: Jan-Jul 1960
J/380: Aug-Dec 1960
J/381: Jan-Apr 1961
J/382: May-Dec 1961
J/383: 1962
J/384: Jan-May 1963
J/385: Jun-Dec 1963
J/386: 1964
J/387: Jan-Jun 1965
J/388: Jul-Dec 1965
J/389: 1966
J/390: 1967
J/391: 1968
J/392: 1969
J/393: 1970
J/394: 1971
J/395: 1972
J/396: 1973
J/397: 1974
J/398: 1975
J/399: 1976
J/400: 1977
J/401: 1978
J/402: 1979
J/403: 1980-1981
J/404: 1982-1984
J/405: 1985-1986
J/406: 1987-1988
J/407: 1989-1990
J/408: 1991
J/409: 1992-1993
J/410-412: Undated

Includes letters from Hubert Humphrey (6 March 1959), Gerald Durrell (13 July 1960), and Linus Pauling (10 December 1974).

Hamburg, addressed to Milnes at Bawtry Hall. - Received a case containing an oil-painting from R. R. Noel of Dresden, which has been shipped to Messrs McCracken.