He requests a copy of 'The art of complaisance' to be sent to the Bodleian Library

She sends a printing of Dorothy Broster's poems; her last book was unfinished and unfit for publication

Two prints from Rainaldo will be sent with related manuscripts to Italy for the Donati volume

Congratulations on his appointment as a pastor in Amsterdam

Thanks for Caröe's work on periodicals for the Library; with letter of thanks, F.W. Ratcliffe to Sir Athelstan Caröe, 5 Aug. 1986

Thanks for the exhibition catalogue ['Two thousand years of calligraphy']; need to expand the library building; Oates' history

Thanks for American extracts; Filby's move to the Maryland Historical Society

Murchison's geological map, 1848, used Sedgwick's material; Sedgwick's paper on it, seven or eight years later, was suppressed by the Geological Society; why did the Council act so?; he will allude to the controversy in the preface to his Catalogue of Palaeozoic fossils

He heard Koestler's broadcasts, which dissatisfied him; he probably will not be asked to broadcast; he would not be able to recapture the spirit of 1932; he recommends two of his books

He asks for verification of the correct use of accents in Stephens' 'Hobbes'

The use and derivation of the word 'pie'

Suggested verse epitaph for William Enfield (d. 3 Nov. 1797)

Issuing an absit; warning about conduct; with gating notice

He is working on a Novalis review; his edition and translation of Füssli's 'Remarks on Rousseau' was not properly distributed by publishers

Thanks for her book

He sends his poem, 'Flowers of pain'; influences on his writing

Mr Darwin's foreign publishing arrangements