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Philip Bliss (from British Museum) has found an edition of the Homelies (?) unknown to PE. Is looking for a job in Oxford.

Jessie de Sismondi - past acquaintance - problem of Italian refugees in Switzerland - asks for introduction to PE's friend Henry Wynn, ambassador in Switzerland, to obtain passports - also asks if a learned Italian could earn a living in Oxford as a tutor

PE to stay with Bedford - Herries send a card of invitation. Phidias Chauntrey (presumably Chantry - v.369) to be present.

PE at Waddon in Surrey, so Bedford propose to visit him and his sister-in-law. Wynn's wife is pregnant.

Thomas Grenville (brother of Lord Grenville? - row 49) making enquiries for some friends, who for the moment do not wish to proceed. The friends must be nameless, and the enquiry a secret.

H.H. Cary - an old acquaintance? - introduces his son, who is very fond of Greek.

Returns PE's notes on Eq. (to be returned by PE for the press - therefore with observations by JHM?). Good to see PE engaged with the Germans. Blomfield archdeacon of Colchester. Sends remembrances and thanks to Gaisford - sorry to hear about his wife.

Philip Bliss on his disappointment at failing to get a job at a 'great house in Bloomsbury.' Thinks of the Registrarship, but fears it is too exalted a post for him (he became Registrar in 1824).

Knowing that PE has a 'tender regard for Westminster,' he questions the Latinity of the last 2 lines of the 1821 Prologue.

Museum Criticum No 7 on point of publication - more than enough material. Review of PE's Bacchae - may be sent to Giffoerd at the Quarterly, or may be given to Monk. Response to Burgess' charges of plagiarism against B. Writer of review of B's Agamemnon in the last Quarterly identified. Too busy to get to Althorp this winter. Doing less Classics and being more of a cleric. Asks for notes on the Knights, as they are proceeding with Museum Criticum No 8.