Newman refers to: Mrs Pollen and the little child [Stephen Hungerford Pollen]; the Vespers of St Philip, performance of Phormio, and adjourning to Rednal; his health; and Pollen's catalogue [published as The first proofs of the Universal catalogue of books on art in 1870, Pollen had been awarded a gold medal for the first part of his ‘Universal catalogue’ at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1867].