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Notes on Shakespeare by W. Aldis Wright, Sir Philip Perring, Albert Matthews, George Parker, H. P. Stokes, Eduard Thiessen and G. O. Wray. Printed reply by Edward H. Pickersgill to a paper by James Spedding, interleaved with Spedding's MS comments.

Letters (some of those without stated address perhaps originally sent to W. G. Clark) including correspondence from P. A. Daniel, W. G. Fletcher, F. J. Furnivall, R. Markham Hill, C. M. Ingleby; also some draft letters from W. Aldis Wright to various correspondents.

Two letters.

Oxford - Spedding knocked down by a cab, Arthur Blakesley's attempt to gain a studentship at Christ Church Oxford

Hales says that he will sign the document and thanks Sidgwick for writing about it, 'for the occasion really calls for something of the sort, [ ] sorry as he is that it should be so'. Says that four or five years ago he was so annoyed with Farm[ ]'s proceedings, [ ] to certain opponents, that he retired from the Committee of the N.S.Sr. - 'If I had not done so then, I should certainly have done it now'. States that anyone who says a word about [ ] now stands an excellent chance of being insulted by [ ]. Refers to the document being signed - 'or will sign the formal copy whenever he likes'. Thanks Sidgwick for leading the protest against insolence. Mentions sad note about Spedding [James Spedding's final illness?]. Sends regards to Mrs Sidgwick.

Shanklin - visiting Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Spring Rice tending towards the high church, Spedding lamenting that he did not go to the Bar

Plymouth - Failure of Tennant and Spedding, his family's new house, organ within, misgivings as to the capacity and honesty of the cabinet, Chancery and Parliamentary reform bills, poor heroic Poles, capture of Warsaw, still has not been given a curacy, application for the Mastership of King's College School, impressed by Tennyson's poetry.

80 Westbourne Terrace - missing volumes sent by post could be at the Athenaeum, thinks Bacon was unaware of the existence of Shakespeare

80 Westbourne Terrace - satisfied with political prospects, hopes Gladstone will exercise enough authority that his party will follow him, Irish protestants and tithes

80 Westbourne Terrace - enquires about Meson, Stratton an invalid but bears it stoically, has moved into a house with other members of his family

sent Blakesley's answer to Longman, spending Christmas in Wales, Bacon "a young man with spirit beyond his powers, gathering together fragments of Bacon

Colonial Office - unable to [?go on holiday], cannot live outside London

Deckham Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne - death of Blakesley's mother.

Colonial Office - negotiations for feeding the Sterling Club at the Piazza have fallen through but has arranged for them to dine at Will's Coffee House

Colonial Office - resolutions passed the previous night [at the Sterling Club], Club dinners

Colonial Office - Apostles' dinner, ill, excesses of youth

Colonial Office - Doyle elected, last words of Sydney Smith

Garden's Ciceronian views, Subscription NO Bondage, John Heath, Wordsworth on copyright, Tom Moore's "postscript"

Trinity College - Peacock will recommend Blakesley for a curacy, Hollingworth recovered, Blakesley should not have accused him of being a matchmaker, information he gave to Miss Muckle

14 Queen's Square - death of Edward [Spedding]

14 Queen's Square - will be in Cambridge and would like rooms for a week

14 Queen's Street, Westminster - has been idle all summer, has read much of Don Quixote, the Coronation, review of Tennyson by Hallam

missed seeing Miss Foote

Trinity College - Hopkins unable to take anyone after Easter, heard Irving preach, ministers of the gospel ought to live on donations alone, reply to Macaulay in the Westminster [Gazette]

Newcastle upon Tyne - does not know what month it is, does not approve of keeping time, reform, the Law as a profession, keeps chickens