Item 1 - Letter from William Vernon Harcourt to Richard Monckton Milnes

1 folded sheet.

Trinity College. - Harcourt has previously consulted Milnes about the Apostles dinner in London; agrees that something should be done; Milnes suggested 'either that the resident Apostles should elect a Chairman, or that Macaulay the last chairman should be requested to send out the cards'. If Milnes should accept the office, he is elected, if not, asks him to ensure the cards 'go forth somehow, or tell me how I can move in the matter'.

Thompson 'has been very ill, but is now fast recovering'; [Henry Fitzmaurice?] Hallam has recently been here for a day, and 'Brookfield is staying on school business with his handsome wife'. Hopes himself to be in London at the beginning of June.

'How are the mighty fallen! Yorkshire in the person of [George] Hudson has kept up its character for honesty'.