Item 3 - Letter from Henry Montagu Butler to Annabella Hungerford Milnes

1 folded sheet, with accompanying sheet.

With letter from J. R. M. Butler to [C.R.?] Dodwell, explaining that Lady Crewe has suggested this letter from his father [H. M. Butler] 'might be added to the other Houghton papers'. The date on this letter appears to be 14 May 1931 given that Dodwell did not become Librarian at Trinity until 1958 and the first deposit of Houghton papers was not received from Lady Crewe until 1959, this seems unlikely. Probably Butler intended to write May 1961.

Harrow. - Is sure Houghton will have been pleased to hear the Lower School' Shakespeare prize. Mr Holmes the examiner 'speaks of his work as fully deserving it, and singles out for special praise his comparison of the characters of Brutus and Cassius. Perhaps this will be quoted some day as his earliest work of literary criticism!'. Has 'really pleased' Butler that Robert Milnes has won the prize.

See also HOUG/8-9 for examination papers for the Lord Charles Russell Shakespeare prize at Harrow, and a newspaper cutting announcing that Robert O. A. Milnes has won this prize.