From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); includes 3 undated letters

To his wife Caroline (Carry); regarding the story of a resolution in the House of Commons (probably the Army Promotion and Retirement Warrant, finally voted on 06.08.77); among others, mentions of Mr. Gathorne Hardy, who had a relevant role in the parliamentary debate; mentions of Prussians' defeats

From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); mention of a "Galashiels meeting, which coincides with a great Temperance meeting" (3a/2; 26.12.1879); mention of the Tay Bridge accident (3a/5; 29.12); mentions of Mr. Pandeli Ralli

From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); 2 and 3 have been sent from Galahill, Galashiels; 4 regards the possibility of electioneering on 24th August and recalls the Whig's line of 'continuity'

From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); 6 reports a dinner "with the Smalleys, and […] his chief, the Editor of the New York Tribune and his wife […] Herbert Spencer was there"; 10 and 11 mention a house debate on the cadets; 12 mentions Sir D. Marjoribanks, and two speeches of GOT (at the presence of Mr. W. E. Forster), together with some "extracts from the Galashiels paper"; 22-42 have been sent during a trip to Paris, Turin, Rome, Castellammare, Syracuse and Malta, between 21.10 and 09.11.

From GOT to his wife Caroline, except 2, 11 and 15; 2 is addressed to Trebelyan (sic) and congratulates him on a contest in an agricultaral constituency (the name is unclear). It mentions Gladstone and is signed C. Louis Buxton, a liberal MP, colleague of GOT. 11 is a tiny newspaper cutting, titled "The Theft of Sir George Trevelyan's Watch", referring that two men arrested for the theft were liberated because there was no evidence against them. GOT noted "This is a good thing" on it. 15 is addressed to Caroline by her sister Anna M. Philips. Letters 4 to 18 (11 and 15 excepted) have been written in Glasgow, between 29.07 and early August (16-17 belong to one letter and are not dated). They might have been sent all at once around 05.08, as stated in 19. 4 mentions four long orations delivered on 28.07; 5-6 complain about a "mostly tremendous meeting " in St. Andrew's Hall, and mentions the Franchise demonstration of 1884. GOT's watch got stolen in this occasion, as he refers in 5.

From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); 1 refers to the Bill 201 and the works of the Law and Justice committee; 3-4 (01.08) reports some works on a bill, involving Mr. Henry James, and mention that "the conservatives seem quite sick and bored with the bill", that is supposed to last long; 5 (02.08) refers to the same bill, mentioning that the debate is going well and that he will soon be able to join Carry; 10 and 11 refers of meetings in Bingley and mentions Spencer, Harcourt and Luke (?) as travel companions and Lady Aberdeen's speech (11); in 11 GOT is most satisfied with the meeting at Bingley Hall

From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); 7 undated letters; 4 (11.05) regards the travel to Ireland, after the assassination of Lord F. Cavendish and mentions Lady Spencer; 7 mentions Lord Charles Bruce; most of the items written from Dublin

From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); mentions of Mrs. Watson in 2 and 5; 6 is a report of his son's feverish temperature; 7 is not dated

From GOT to his wife Caroline (Carry); 3 is a recipe titled "To Make Soup"; 5 contains a pasted newspaper cutting, referring to a polemic of July 30th; 6-9 are from Wallington, Northumberland and 10 from Aberdeen where GOT was for a "Conference".