Account from executors of Hallswell.
Heraldic note on coat of arms of Lord Grenville (see 37, 49, 135).
Goodenough asks leave to nominate PE as steward of the 'Westminster meeting' for 1824, and for recommendations for a text book for the 6th Form.
J Allen from Rome (Via Bambuino). About to take a villa in Frascati - news of friends - PE has only recently left.
J Black encloses a parcel of books from Prof Hermann in Leipzig, and offers to take parcels to Germany on his monthly expeditions.
R Finch in Rome to PE in Florence. Apologises for not having accomplished PE's 2 commissions. Niebuhr has been ill, and he hopes to persuade Amati on the morrow to collate the 4 mss of Sophocles. Hopes Jenkyns will not succeed Parsons as Master of Balliol (he did). Has heard of a good ms of Suidas in the Roman College. Miller has fallen and hurt his shoulder. The Holy Roman Emperor (??? - tear in letter) has placed restrictions on ruin-hunters. Talk of the dating of some Roman antiquities. Ashbridge and Miller disagree on the merits of Vasi's Itinerary (of Naples).
Invitation from J Rowe to join a few friends one evening.
Collingwood (of the Clarendon Press) with costings for printing the Bacchae. Pencilled quotation from Johannes Malala on back.
Short extract from The Romance of the Forest (Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe).
C Goddard - Press matters.