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With additional note from Mary Parker to her sister-in-law Sarah Anne Babington, née Pearson.

At top: David Mamet - Is glad he found 'Oleanna' moving and thanks him for his endorsement of the play.

Forwarding a letter from Sommer & Gross to Paul Giovanni dated 2 June 1970.

Is sorry to hear from Robert [Leonard] of the heart attack, wishes he were with him.

Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, 2 Rue Andre-Pascal, Paris XVIe - Was on holiday without him, and regrets it; gives advice on holidays in Cannes, St Tropez, Le Lavandou, Cavalaire, St Maxime and Raphael, or Oktoberfest in Munich.

C. Comp., 161 Inf. (Octu) RMC, Sandhurst, Surrey - Thanks for the weekend; describes Sandhurst; saw Mrs Ebden in their old neighbourhood.

RL, Robert Lantz, 111 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019 - A summary of a long telephone conversation between PS, Alan Schwartz and himself about Alex Cohen's offer for the motion picture rights for 'Black Comedy' and 'White Lies'; reports that he has also spoken to Mel Frank and Lee Sabinson of Paramount.

Duplicated typescript

Letters from Margaret Anne Babington to her brother Matthew Babington, 1817-1818, one with a note from their sister Jean to Matthew.

Letters from Matthew Babington: to his brother George Gisborne Babington, 3 Oct. 1829, with additions by his wife Frances (née Sykes) and brother in law James Parker; to his father Thomas Babington, 1821-1833, one with a message to his mother Jean Babington (née Macaulay); to his brother in law James Parker, c 14 Aug. 1829; to his sister Mary, later Parker, with a message from his brother Thomas Gisborne Babington to Mary, c 14 Sept. 1811.

Letters from Matthew Drake Babington: to his aunt Jean Babington (with note from Thomas Babington to his wife Jean), 26 June 1804; to his uncle Thomas Babington, 1822-1826.

Letter from Sarah Babington, née Disney, to her sister in law Mary Parker, 8 Sept. 1837.

Letters from Sarah Anne Babington, née Pearson, to: her father in law Thomas Babington, Nov. 1824 and Oct. 1825; her sister in law Mary Babington, afterwards Parker, 1816-1829 (one with note from her husband George Gisborne Babington to his sister Mary).

25A Cockspur Street. - Re Cyril Mowbray Wells

100 Holywell Street. - 'Thank you... for Housman'

Admy. - Any papers WW sent to Capt. O. Stanley via the Admiralty would have been forwarded - 'but we keep no account of what merely passes through our hands - Your paper on the tides of the Pacific would be highly interesting to him'.

WW and George Airy are coming to the end of their experiment to measure the density of the earth. They will be back in about a week. If JCH thinks it is urgent for WW to return sooner he may be able to manage it. 'The earth is rather perverse but I believe the center to be molten lead'.

Clipped page, the bottom of a conveyance document.

'Flyleaf of volume containing first few verses of Genesis I, unpointed Spanish hand' [description of MS from Add.MS a 40/25].

Highgarth, Gloucester - The letter he has is from Dr [Henry] Roth, who writes that he has found a tribe of aboriginal people who believe in parthenogenesis, and has a theory of the origin of taboo as the will of the strongest; was interested to read the new GB, suspects all martyrologies, including St Dasius; [Alfred] Haddon will make an excellent President for the Anthropological Institute, hopes he will not disdain the Folklore Society later on. A postscript discusses two items from GB, relating to the seclusion of the kings of Corea and concerning the Welsh verses in Vol. II, p. 178.

Paris (4bis, rue des Ecoles) - Thanks him for the third volume of 'The Belief in Immortality'.