Letters dated 15 May 1846 - 25 June 1851.
Letters dated 15, 27 Nov. 1847, 18 July 1848, 5 Mar. 1854.
Correspondence concerning the donation of a print of Mill to Trinity College by Henry Manning Ingram, with four letters from his friend and Trinity College Master Henry Montagu Butler dated Jan. 1908, with two other letters relating to Mill sent to Ingram, one of them from J. H. Cooper enclosing a letter from Mill to Charles Gordon. After H. M. Ingram's death, the correspondence continues, with 18 letters between his son Arthur D. Ingram (carbon typescripts) and Butler (originals). Much of the correspondence deals with the wording for the accompanying plaque and inscription on the back of the frame featuring biographical information for William Hodge Mill and Henry Manning Ingram, and is accompanied by six letters from Mill's grandsons Philip G. L. and Edmund Webb, and letters from James Gow and James Marshall. In addition, there are six letters sent to and from W. H. Mill: two to and from Thomas Robinson, two from C. A. Fowler, two more from Mill to [Samuel?] Wilberforce and Mill's mother.
Sin títuloRe Bloxham Church.
Notes, correspondence and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Includes letters from: Bartholomew Price; the Bishop of St David's [Basil Jones]; the Bishop of Llandaff [Alfred Ollivant], two Bishops of Winchester [Harold Browne and Samuel Wilberforce) and the Bishop of St Andrew's, Dunkeld and Dunblane [Charles Wordsworth]. Draft letters from Wright to R. A. [?] Massie and the editor of the Rock. Printed correspondence, members lists etc of the Old and New Testament Revision Companies. Notes on the Psalms, the Athanasian Creed, 'The Rephaim and other giant races of Scripture' [no 44] etc.
Also present: what purports to be a frontispiece to the Coverdale Bible of 1535, with an engraved portrait of Coverdale 'from a Drawing in the Possession of Dr Gifford' [from Erasmus Middleton's Biographia evangelica of 1816?] and a copy of 'Coverdale's Dedication' and 'Myles Coverdale unto the Christen Reader' [from Bagster's 1838 printing?]. A note in Philip Gaskell's hand judges the frontispiece to be 'slightly fishy: cd be a block printed on old paper'.
Sin títuloProposing memorial to Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Winchester.
Expresses regret that Sidgwick did not come to visit them [in Weymouth]. Invites him to come should he get the work done 'before term begins' or any other time. Announces that they go home that day. Refers to 'the increase of difficulties with regard to the Church of England.' Declares that his doubts about the possibility of holding his position 'gain ground daily'. Is thinking of asking the Bishop [of Oxford?] for leave of non-residence for a year, and taking a house [in Weymouth], where he could work quietly with his pupils 'and at literature', and 'consider the whole matter of conscience'. Reports that Chapman is pleased with his paper. Declares that he wants to write 'a decent article...on the chastity or unchastity of schoolboys, and the uses and abuses of the confessional'. Asks Sidgwick to read, and give his opinion on, a paper of his on the Bishop of S[ ] in the July issue of the Theological Review.
Letters from Prof. G. Pryme, the Bishop of Durham, the Dean of St Patrick's, Sir Thomas Fremantle, William Webb, Lord Charles Hervey, Dr Locock, the Bishop of Ely, Mr Fell, Lord Feilding, Mr Russell, the Bishop of Madras, Lord Ernest Bruce, Archdeacon Hodson, Sir John H. Lowther, Lord Mandeville, J. G. Shaw Lefevre, Rev. H. V. Elliott, Mr Buston, and Eliot Yorke.
Acknowledges Monk's congratulations [on appointment as Dean of Westminster]
Unidentified hand. Paper watermarked 1864.
Unidentified hand.
On the spine is stamped ‘Philobiblon Society’ and, at the foot, ‘1863 | 1876.’ The contents are minutes of meetings, etc. (as in Crewe MS 17).
In the list below, only the first page of each item is indicated. The addresses are in London unless indicated otherwise. The member associated with each address is identified only on its first occurrence.
p. v: Printed title: ‘Transactions of the Philobiblon Society 1854 [sic]’.
p. vii: Printed section title: ‘Meetings.’
p. 1: Minutes of a meeting on 28 Feb. 1863 at the Deanery, St Paul’s (residence of H. H. Milman).
p. 3: Minutes of a meeting on 28 Mar. 1863 at 1 Park Square, Regent’s Park (residence of R. S. Turner).
p. 5: Minutes of a meeting on 25 Apr. 1863 at 128 Park Street, Grosvenor Square (residence of William Stirling).
p. 7: Minutes of a meeting on 6 June 1863 at 16 Upper Brook Street (residence of Richard Monckton Milnes).
p. 15: Minutes of a meeting on 27 June 1863 at Orleans House, Twickenham (residence of the Duke of Aumale).
p. 20: Minutes of a meeting on 11 [July] 1863 at Dufferin Lodge, Highgate (residence of Lord Dufferin).
(Dated Saturday, 11 June, by mistake.)
p. 22: Minutes of a meeting on 20 Feb. 1864 at 66 Russell Square (residence of J. B. Heath).
p. 27: Minutes of a meeting on 12 Mar. 1864 at 50 Albemarle Street (residence of John Murray).
p. 29: Minutes of a meeting on 28 May 1864 at 24 Arlington Street (residence of Robert Curzon).
p. 33: Minutes of a meeting on 16 July 1864 at 16 Upper Brook Street.
p. 37: Note of a meeting on 24 July 1864 at 27 Belgrave Square (residence of Lord Taunton).
p. 38: Minutes of a meeting on 1 Apr. 1865 at 30 Prince’s Gate (residence of Henry Huth).
p. 40: Minutes of a meeting on 29 Apr. 1865 at 1 Park Square West, Regent’s Park.
p. 42: Minutes of a meeting on 27 May 1865 at Newstead, Wimbledon Park.
p. 44: Minutes of a meeting on 17 June 1865 at Orleans House, Twickenham.
p. 50: Minutes of a meeting on 1 July 1865 at Farnborough Hill, Hampshire (residence of Thomas Longman).
Bound in after p. 50: Letter from Sydney Smith to Mrs Longman, [c. 11 Nov. 1833].
Submits a humorous plan of a dinner of insects and bugs, which he thinks will be agreeable to ‘Kirby & Spence’ [the authors of An Introduction to Entomology, 4 vols., 1815–26, which was published by Longmans].
(Postmarked at Maddox Street and with the date 11 Nov. 1833. Directed to Mrs N. Longman, Garden Mount, Hampstead.)
p. 53: Minutes of a meeting on 24 Feb. 1866 at the Deanery of Westminster (residence of Arthur P. Stanley).
p. 56: Minutes of a meeting on 24 Mar. 1866 at 30 Prince’s Gate.
p. 58: Minutes of a meeting on 28 Apr. 1866 at 128 Park Street, Grosvenor Square.
p. 60: Minutes of a meeting on 2 June 1866 at 36 Eaton Place (residence of Sir Erskine Perry).
p. 62: Minutes of a meeting on 23 June 1866 at St Dunstan’s, Regent’s Park (residence of Henry H. Gibbs).
p. 66: Minutes of a meeting on 23 Feb. 1867 at the Deanery of Westminster.
p. 68: Minutes of a meeting on 18 Mar. 1867 at 14 Bruton Street (residence of Lord Delamere).
p. 70: Minutes of a meeting on 1 June 1867 at Newstead, Wimbledon Park.
p. 72: Minutes of a meeting on 29 June 1867 at Orleans House, Twickenham.
p. 76: Minutes of a meeting on 27 July 1867 at 1 Park Square.
p. 79: Minutes of a meeting on 16 May 1868 at 66 Russell Square.
p. 83: Minutes of a meeting on 13 June 1868 at 30 Curzon Street (residence of Lord Dartrey).
p. 85: Minutes of a meeting on 27 June 1868 at 21 Arlington Street (residence of Sylvain Van de Weyer).
p. 88: Minutes of a meeting on 11 July 1868 at St Dunstan’s, Regent’s Park.
p. 92: Minutes of a meeting on 27 Feb. 1869 at the Deanery of Westminster.
p. 96: Minutes of a meeting on 20 Mar. 1869 at 4 Audley Square (residence of Edward Cheney).
p. 111: Minutes of a meeting on 24 Apr. 1869 at 72 Eaton Place (residence of Sir John Simeon).
p. 115: Minutes of a meeting on 8 May 1869 at 16 Upper Brook Street.
p. 118: Minutes of a meeting on 12 June 1869 at Newstead, Wimbledon Park.
p. 127: Minutes of a meeting on 24 July 1869 at 1 Carlton Terrace (residence of George Tomline).
p. 129: Brief notes of meetings on 5 Mar. 1870 at [5] Onslow Gardens (residence of J. A. Froude); 30 May 1870 at [21] Arlington Street; 16 June 1870 at Arklow House (residence of Alexander Beresford Hope); 30 June 1870 at Orleans House; 9 July 1870 at Dorchester House (residence of R. S. Holford); 16 July 1870 at Strawberry Hill (residence of Chichester Fortescue); and 28 July 1870 at [16] Upper Brook Street.
The notes begin: ‘This Book having been mislaid, there is no record of the Proceedings of the Society during 1870 beyond the following official record.’ The start of this period coincides with the appointment of Sir John Simeon as honorary secretary.
p. 133: Minutes of a meeting on 4 Mar. 1871 at 67 Brook Street (residence of Kirkman Hodgson).
p. 135: Minutes of a meeting on 25 Mar. 1871 at 14 Grosvenor Square (residence of E. J. Stan-ley).
p. 138: Printed menu-card for a dinner on 29 Apr. 1871.
p. 139: Minutes of a meeting on 29 Apr. 1871 at 10 Upper Grosvenor Street, W. (residence of Sir William Stirling Maxwell).
p. 143: Minutes of a meeting on 25 May 1871 at 45 Berkeley Square (residence of the Earl of Powis).
p. 146: Minutes of a meeting on 1 July 1871 at Newstead, Wimbledon Park.
p. 148: Minutes of a meeting on 11 May 1872 at 6 Clifford Street (residence of Lord Houghton).
p. 152: Minutes of a meeting on 1 June 1872 at St Katherine’s Lodge, Regent’s Park (residence of C. Brinsley Marlay).
p. 157: Minutes of a meeting on 15 June 1872 at 55 Portland Place (residence of Walter Sneyd).
p. 164: Minutes of a meeting on 26 June 1872 [St Dunstan’s, Regent’s Park].
(The place of meeting is identified simply as ‘the house of Mr Gibbs’.)
p. 166: Minutes of a meeting on 3 July 1872 at 1 Park Square, Regent’s Park.
p. 168: Minutes of a meeting on 15 Mar. 1873 at 6 Clifford Street.
p. 171: Minutes of a meeting on 17 May 1873 at 10 Upper Grosvenor Street.
p. 174: Minutes of a meeting on 31 May 1873 at 30 Curzon Street.
p. 176: Minutes of a meeting on 28 June 1873 at [21] St James’s Square (residence of the Bishop of Winchester, Samuel Wilberforce).
p. 178: Minutes of a meeting on 12 July 1873 at Hatfield House, [Herts.].
p. 181: Minutes of a meeting on 30 July 1873 at 14 Grosvenor Square.
p. 183: Minutes of a meeting on 9 May 1874 at 10 Upper Grosvenor Street.
p. 187: Minutes of a meeting on 20 June 1874 at Newstead, Wimbledon Park.
p. 190: Minutes of a meeting on 18 May 1875 at 66 Russell Square.
p. 197: Minutes of a meeting on 29 May 1875 at St Dunstan’s, Regent’s Park.
p. 201: Minutes of a meeting on 12 June 1875 at St Katherine’s Lodge, Regent’s Park.
p. 205: Minutes of a meeting on 26 June 1875 at 1 Sussex Square, W. (residence of Lord Cole-ridge).
p. 207: Minutes of a meeting on 1 Apr. 1876 at 6 Clifford Street.
p. 209: Minutes of a meeting on 13 May 1876 at 27 Queen’s Gate, Kensington (residence of F. W. Cosens).
p. 211: Minutes of a meeting on 27 May 1876 at 55 Portland Place.
p. 215: Minutes of a meeting on 10 June 1876 at 61 Prince’s Gate.
p. 217: Minutes of a meeting on 24 June 1876 at Dorchester House.
Sin títuloItchenstoke - RCT apologises for his unceremonious leavetaking at Trinity Lodge last week, but he felt he should make room for late comers. He has been informed by the Bishop of Oxford, 'a few days since, of the purpose of Government to issue such a Commission [into the universities] as you have alluded to. Indeed he spoke of it, & apparently with knowledge, as already issued. He did not think that Ministers had any purpose of again attempting to compel the universities to admit Dissenters - but that the expressed purpose of the commission would be to enquire whether the universities could not be made, as regarded the members of the Church, more adequate to the needs of the present time. I am not aware whether the Bishop knew who the members of the commission were or would be. He only stated that no one concerned with the University Education would have any place on it - & that it would contain a good number of sufficiently unfriendly names'.