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C P Burney promotes the interests of a friend and old pupil whom PE had met abroad. Approves of appointments made to the Oxford Board of Delegates.

Wm Sotheby congratulates PE on appointment to St Alban Hall.

C Goddard - has sent some notes to Collingwood (see row 49 - from the Press?). Cannot work for the moment as his son has an obstruction of the mesenteric glands. Ref to Lord G. (Grenville? - see 49).

Invitation from Taylor Combe to join the Royal Society of Literature, one of whose objects is the publication of inedited (sic) mss. Congratulations on appointment to St Alban

Account from executors of Hallswell.

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.

R Finch from Naples (about to go to Florence, and to go to Greece the following year) to PE in Milan (just left Florence, and about to return to England). Apologises for writing on Bath paper. PE has not acknowledged a 'collation' from Miss Thomson. Amati has acquired portraits of Louis XVI. Has met Baron Niebuhr, who criticises Amati and Francesco del Furio as collators, but does not think this criticism should be printed. Has heard nothing about Sir Humphry Davy's invention, and has not delivered PE's message to Bunsen - Mrs B is slatternly, and they are all very queer (v. Horsfall pp473ff).

Ditto, asking if PE has received a note from Lord Grenville re the cancellation of 2 pages (cf. row 49).