(Undated. Postmarked 29(?) Jan. 1905.)
Park Nook, Prince’s Park, Liverpool.—Comments on Greg’s list of books printed by Thomas Berthelet.
(Marked by Greg, ‘See Duff’s letter’, i.e. MSPB 24.)
Presentation letter.
Letter referring to the report of the various arguments against the new educational code, which will affect training colleges 'to a very great degree'.
Is going to Oakham with Lord Northampton to give a lecture on the history and architecture of that place; sends his book, remarks that he wants to learn more from the Pipe rolls of Henry III and his three successors; admires Schlegel: 'The day I first opened the pages of Schlegel a new world of ideas burst on my mind'.
Presents the pamphlet in case Whewell becomes interested in the law of Rating in his controversy with the parishes.
Birchin Lane - Sends the printed letter as showing 'how little reason there is for some of the objections raised by Keble & others against his bill'.
St Johns Coll Oxford - Thanks him for the papers on Plato; discusses Plato's concept of 'hypothesis', universal postulates, refers to the theories of Mill and Spencer.
Bayswater, 33 Porchester Terrace - Encloses his review, is sorry to see the great philosophers of one hundred years ago so undervalued and unappreciated.
A draft of a translation of the poem, picking up from the last lines of the printed version of part of the poem, which has been bound in front of the draft.
Presentation letter.
Forwards the verses and addresses in the pamphlet and mentions English stanzas identified in manuscript on the page as by William Johnson (later Cory), and also praises the second English address by [Herbert John] Reynolds KS (King's Scholar). Is happy to find that he will soon be able to make mathematics "an integral part of our system, King's College has smoothed my way".
Sin título3 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.'
Villa Riquet, Arcachon France. - Supplies further details on the two Páli texts he has sent to Trinity Library.
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.
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.
A card and two letters: in a card dated April 1900 Lyttelton announces she is sending him the copy of Joubert which she originally gave her mother on her 78th birthday; the two letters dated April 1902 concern arrangements to meet.
Cannes -- Admires Mrs Litchfield, who has given her a copy of A Century of Darwin Letters; has been ill, which has delayed her departure; refers to tensions between France and Germany.
Upper Terrace Lodge, Hampstead, N.W. Would like to attend the feast of stories in Mr Ralston's programme but finds the weather makes such plans uncertain; thinks he would enjoy reading Sydney Dobell's Life and Letters edited by Miss Jolly, who is now in the Pyrenees with Mrs Dobell.
75, Eaton Rise, Ealing, W. Is sending the book Side-Walk Studies to him, mentions two works in the printers’ hands, her parents have returned from Essex, and thanks him for the enjoyable visit.
Buffalo, N.Y. Was unable to publish the “Year Book of Poetry” to which Munby subscribed. Thanks him for the Vistigia Retrorsum poems, which he is about to present as part of his library to his public library, and asks for a photograph to send the library as well. Sends the collection, In My Lady’s Name.
South Teddington, Hampton Wick. Informs him he has ordered a copy of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’s book for Butler, and quotes an article on Christina Rossetti in “Church Bells” dated Jan. 4th.
Records a day with Whitley Stokes and Gabriel Rossetti, in which Christina’s poems were read to them by Gabriel.
3 St. Edmund’s Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W. Apologises for sending her book without inscribing it to him; enjoyed Faithful Servants, and mentions a friend's work about a Sudanese servant of hers; expresses sympathy for his loss.
Edmondsham House, Bournemouth. Has received a letter from Munby in which he questions whether Mrs Shelley was in fact married, and argues her point that the Shelleys were married, saying the point is important because she is "a believer in marriage." Mentions that she was under no obligation to the family but found Mary Shelley a fascinating figure.