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West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking. - Will not be able to come to lunch due to work on the house; hopes she had a good weekend at Littlehampton. Has sent off the index [to his biography of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson] and just has the revised proofs to correct. Mrs Hardy has suggested that he edit her husband's letters to Mrs [Florence] Henniker; would have liked the job but feels he has done 'enough memorialising for the present' and will only do it if the pay is good. Terence Millin is the surgeon who uses diathermy; if Bessie sees her friend she could ask about him. Ackerley heard about him from his GP, Wadd of Richmond; Forster is sceptical; thanks Bessie for sympathy and support. Hopes to go to some of the Busch concerts.

Note, 'A. H. Houghton from R. O. A. Milnes', at front. Christmas card attached to flyleaf.
pp. 107-108: 'Florence's Squibs': copies of comic verses by Hon. Florence Ellen Hungerford Milnes.

Verses in several hands. Authors are not given, but are as follows:

Milnes: The Complaint of Glenquoich [On headed notepaper for Invergarry, N.B.],

Landor: Foesulian Idyl [sic: actually Fæsulan Idyl]; To Tacaea; The Maid's Lament; 'When Helen first saw wrinkles in her face' [Wrinkles]; 'Say ye, that years roll on & ne'er return?' [To the Comtesse de Molande, about to marry the Duc de Luxembourg]; Friends; On Southey's Death; You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed; An aged man, who loved to doze away; There are who say...; Why, why repine?; Children playing in a Church yard; 'A! what awaits the sceptered race..' [Rose Aylmer]; For a Gravestone in Spain; Ye who have toiled; Cleone to Aspasia; The Death of Artemidora; The Death of Paris and Œnone; Corinna to Tanagra; Iphigeneia and Agamemnon; Enallos and Cymodameia [largely on headed notepaper for Wynnstay, Rhuabon].

Unknown: Fryston - 'August 1859' added to the title in Richard Monckton Milnes' hand. First lines 'Long sunny days once spent; - t'was a year of the sunniest summer/ Days, leaving each as it passed, a trail all golden behind it...'. The identity of some figures referred to in the poem is noted beside it: Sir Charles MacCarthy '...ob. Aug. 1864]; Edward Waterton 'mistaken for his father the great Naturalist'; 'Capt. Richard Burton'.

Describes a visit to William Wilberforce and family at Highwood Hill. Perhaps by Hon. Florence Milnes?

Breakfasts: 1855-1856; also christening luncheon for Hon. Florence Milnes, 28 Dec. 1855
Dinners: 1855-1856, including 'Mesmeric Soirée', 24 Jun. 1855.

Fragment of letter describes illness [of one of Annabella Milnes' daughters?].

Letters from 1855-c. 1858 either in the hand of or with the assistance of adults: Caroline Monckton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Caroline Milnes and Amelia Jane Milnes. Richard Monckton Milnes (letter c 1856) adds a note to Annabella himself. Letter from Amelia Jane Milnes also contains portion said to be written by 'Florey' (Florence Milnes).
Letters from the late 1850s (perhaps 1859?)-1862 have guidelines drawn in pencil for Amicia by an adult.
Letter of 18 Aug. [1869?] perhaps incomplete; includes note from Lord Houghton to Lady Houghton.

Letter of 14 Aug. 1867 to both Lord and Lady Houghton, letter of 9 Sept. [1867] to her father only.

Not including their correspondence.