Box 1

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Letters: Neff House, Sunbury, Pa., to Bloomsburg Carpet Mills

3 ALS. Each letter places an order for services and sundry items.

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Letter: Neff House, Sunbury, Pa., to W. E. Leneker, Killinger, Dauphin Co.

ALS. "Three Miles out from Middleburg Store + Farmer Sells about 5 Tuns of Susquehana Co. goods a year including what he uses himself. Won't change."

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Letter: Essex, to Seymour Adelman, 1906-1985, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALS. Thanks Adelman for his letter, and discusses his series of paintings of Keats and Keats's works.

Scope and Contents Letter: Essex, to Seymour Adelman, 1906-1985, Philadelphia, Pa.TLS. Ayrten thanks Adelman for his "kind and pleasant gift of your lecture on Leigh Hunt and of the facsimile letter from Cobbett to James Oldden from your collection. It will be a great pleasure to come and see you with Margo in Philadelphia, where I hope to be sometime in the second half of June. Meanwhile we have heard from Margo and shall see her in London in April." Also included is a newspaper cutout reviewing...

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Letter: London, to the Dean of Canterbury [Henry Alford], 1810-1871

ALS. Thanks the Dean for his translation of Homer, though he writes "I cannot say that the metre you have chosen quite commends itself to me, but I find myself reading your verses with pleasure." Mentions the pleasure the Dean's verses have given him over the years.

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Letter: Harrow, to Henry Allon, 1818-1892

ALS. Writes he cannot accept Allon's invitation because of the death of his son: "owing to his delicate health and the constant care he required . . . the separation from him seems to change our lives more than I can well say . . . I mean to make it a rule not to leave [my wife] alone at present more than I can possibly help."

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Letter: Cobham, Surrey, to James Bain

ALS. Requests that Bain bind and send the Essays to a Miss Knowles, and "the new number of the XIXth Century to my daughter, Mrs. Whitridge."

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Letter: London, to Richard Belt; [18--]-05-11

ALS. "Many thanks for your kind present which I shall take down with me into the country today to show to my wife and girls."

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Letter: Colchester, to William Cox Bennett, 1820-1895, Greenwich

ALS. Writes of Bennett's volume sent to him: "your project is an interesting one, and if well executed would prove of great value. I have not yet received the preliminary volume you mention."

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Letter: London, to the Rev. Moncure Daniel Conway, 1832-1907

ALS. Sends his correspondent information on how to obtain Lord Redesdale's (Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron, 1837-1916) papers. Suggests his friend write the Redesdale himself, stating that he is enquiring on behalf of an American gentleman translating Theocritus.