Longmans, Green, & Co., 6 & 7 Clifford Street, London, W.1.—They cite a review of V. L. Griffith's Experiments in Education.
(Place of writing not indicated.)—Discusses watermarks in quartos in the Huntington Library.
Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 44 Museum Street, London, W.C.1.—Sends page-proofs and refers to the air-raids.
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In your Court Records p. 93 (13 April 1603) you may care to refer to Arber II. 38. There was a London edition of the Lepanto published by Stafford and Hooke, 1603. A copy was in Bindley IV. 410—Heber IV. 1189—Britwell (private cat. of Eng. poetry II. 220, but not, apparently sold at Sotheby’s, see Checklist). See Arber III. 232.
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(Letter-head of the Houghton Library.)
(An engraved form, filled up by hand, including an engraving of the Museum by E. H. New, 1910.)
8 The Broadway, Hammersmith, W.—Praises Greg’s notes on John Phillip (as reprinted from The Library).
Park Nook, Prince’s Park, Liverpool.—Asks about the types and borders used by Thomas Berthelet.
Park Nook, Prince’s Park, Liverpool.—Comments on Greg’s list of books printed by Thomas Berthelet.
(Undated. Postmarked 29(?) Jan. 1905.)
(Marked by Greg, ‘See Duff’s letter’, i.e. MSPB 24.)
British Museum, London.—Accepts the offer of a copy of his 'English Plays and Masques' (sic).
10 Lauriston Road, Wimbledon.—The Bibliographical Society thank him for his List of English Plays, and he has been elected a member of Council.
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.'
Bridge House, Matlock, Derbyshire. - Sent a 'small Páli MS and a printed Buddhist tract to Trinity Library yesterday, and with this letter sends his copy of Rask's Sinhalese gramma, 'a work of exceeding rarity, and which I do not think any English library possesses. Gives him great pleasure 'to confide this valuable volume to such able and enlightened keeping as that of the Master and fellows of Trinity College.'
Bridge House, Matlock, Derbyshire. -Is sending a Sinhalese manuscript to Trinity Library by this post: 'Saǹkhyátha Prakáça - A collection of Buddhist "classifications". A Sinhalese M.S. The technical terms being given partly in Sinhalese and partly in Páli'.
Bridge House, Matlock, Derbyshire. -Is sending another Páli manuscript to Trinity Library by this post: Bálávatára, the text is in the 'Sinhalese Character'.