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Letters of John Babington to: his brother George Gisborne Babington, Nov. 1837; sister-in-law Sarah Babington, née Disney, Apr. 1833; father Thomas Babington, June 1822 and Apr. 1829; J. S. Elliott; brother-in-law James Parker, Nov. 1826; sister Mary, Jan. 1818-Nov. 1837; nephew Edward Joseph Rose, May 1880-Sept. 1881 (some copies; letter of 13 Apr. 1881 includes a partial transcript of a letter from Lydia Rose to her sister-in-law Charlotte Rose, 25 Feb. 1831).

Also letters from John Babington to his sister Lydia Rose, Feb. 1876-May 1879 (one including transcribed extract from the will of their sister Jean Babington); and niece Mary Ellen Rose, née Parker. Telegram from John Babington to Edward, Viscount Cardwell, Aug. 1852. Sermon preached by John Babington after the death of his brother in law Joseph Rose.

Letters of Joseph Babington to his brother Thomas Babington Dec. 1821-Dec. 1826, some with notes from his wife Catherine (née Whitter) to Thomas.

Re Cyril Mowbray Wells

Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - '...you do not offer me congratulations on our successful resistance to the capture of the University by the Women.'

British Museum, London, W.C.1. - Concerning the diaries of A. E. Housman - information which 'will make it possible for you to answer Andrew Gow'.

Christ's College, Cambridge. - Regarding Gow's 'valuable sketch of A. E. Housman'.

West House, Piddletrenthide, Dorchester - Offers the A. A. Vansittart Commonplace book (now Add. MS a.190/7).

27 Rutland St., Hampstead Road - Woolner 'rejoices' that Adam Sedgwick has consented to allowing him to do 'his head in sculpture'. The modelling will probably take a fortnight. Glad Clark likes his photographs and frame.

Originally enclosing notes by Emily Jourdain on Bartolini's bust of Byron.

'1 leaf containing Atonement Piyyutim... Askhenazic hand' [description of MS from Add.MS a 40/25].

Paris, 4bis, rue des Ecoles - Thanks her for the volumes of 'The Golden Bough'; the French translation of 'Psyche's Task' will be most welcome.

A clipping sent by H. W. Underwood, from 'The Graphic' of September 9, 1905 depicting a rain-making rite.

Brasted - RJ cannot get to London at the time WW mentions but will be at home. He wants John Malcolm to answer a few queries about Persia.

Aldeburgh - Has been to Rome with his wife, went to the Mithraic Temple at San Clemente, had many talks with Father Delaney; writes of the state of religion: thinks the church is stagnating; thinks politicians should take a course in the study of anthropology, adding the study of heredity; thinks Dean Inge in his 'Outspoken Essays' understands the times, and admires his 'Idea of Progress'; Bury's book of the same name claims that 'the number of civilizations which have reached a given stage and gone under, is beyond compute'; agrees that Germany should pay for her 'brigandage' but thinks money should be advanced to pay the miners to dig the coal that France needs; Frazer writes of [Oliver] Lodge and [Arthur Conan] Doyle, and Clodd quotes Sir Bryan Donkin that he classes Doyle among the 'mentally defective'; he is publishing a book 'Magic in Names'; wonders if Frazer is going to supplement 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' as Frazer has said that it hung on the issue of a book by a French scholar on the early history of Christianity; asks if Frazer has examined the evidence advanced by Prof. Elliot Smith on the origin of Pre-Columbian civilization, backed by [W. H. R.] Rivers in [A. H.] Keane's Man Past and Present' and quotes [A.C.] Haddon; finds as he gets older the more he values an open mind; the servant problem not helped by the promising house maid who hid her pregnancy and gave birth in the middle of the night.

Announces that at the quarterly meeting of the Council of the British Economic Association, he was asked on their behalf to express to Nora Sidgwick their sense of the great loss that they have suffered 'by the death of Professor Sidgwick, who was from the outset a member of [the] Council, a contributor to the Economic Journal, and generally one of [their] most valued supporters'; Sidgwick also presided over their last Annual Meeting and Dinner in March 1900. Reports that an obituary notice is being prepared for the December number of the Economic Journal, or which a copy shall be sent to her. Adds that the Council wish him to express their sympathy to her in her bereavement.

Discusses the Constitutional Convention and its functions. States that its most important aspect, from earliest times, has been that 'prominent men of each party' served it. Laments the fact that '[t]here has been a decided decline in the quality of the men sent to the last three conventions in New York'. Refers to the influence of men such as Platt and C[roker]. Refers to the referendum, and states that the legislature 'has become a caricature, and nearly all the states are trying to mitigate its evils by diminishing the number of its sessions. Informs Sidgwick that they have 'moved up to a house here for [our] last five weeks before sailing Sept. 3rd.'

Letter from Reay dated 10 Apr. 1917

Barskimming, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Dated 20 March 1913 - Thanks him for the volume of Gifford Lectures, and plans to read them all in spite of his 'friendly warning'; thinks he will hear from Sheriff [David] MacKenzie on the subject of Frazer's enquiries.

(There are two cuttings, one containing a notice of the publication of Preston’s The Picture of Yarmouth in 1819, the other an account of his installation as Mayor of Yarmouth on 2 Oct. 1828.)