Box 1

Letter: London, to William Henry Davenport Adams, 1828-

ALS. "You are quite welcome to print the two pieces you want, and I have to thank you for the kindness with which you speak of my writings; for my own part, instead of thinking them too few, I am beginning to be uneasy at their number."

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.

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."

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."

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."

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."

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.

Letter: Cobham, Surrey, to Sir Edmund Hay Currie

ALS. Declines his correspondent's invitation, stating that he must be absent from England for much of the next year.

Letter: Cobham, Surrey, to A.H. Dooley, d. 1903, Terre Haute, Ind.

ALS. Tells Dooley where to find a list of his published works. "There are a few sentences about Shelley and Wordsworth" in one of his Essays in Criticism, but he has not made either one of them the subject of an article. "The best edition of Wordsworth is, I suppose, the Centenary Edition."

Letter: London, to the editor of the Dublin University magazine; [18--]-11-15

ALS. Writes that he is enclosing a photographic portrait of himself requested by the editors: "It is the best that has been taken . . . for I take very badly." Another copy from Elliott & Fry will be sent "if it suits you." [Letter only, no photograph.]