Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (Stonyhurst, Whalley, Lancashire) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to his study of scholastic logic; his reading; the weather; the scenery and life in Lancashire; and his pleasure at receiving news of a literary nature.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (Stonyhurst College, Blackburn) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to a statement he made about [Emmanuel] Swedenborg; his work teaching classics at the London University; his reading and writing; his plans for a book on Greek lyric art; Aeschylus' 'Suppliants'; and Pindar.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (Manor Farm, Shanklin, Isle of Wight) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, in which he proves 'syllogistically' that Baillie is a 'fool'. Discusses the 'Princess'; his social life; country and sea life; Millais' art; his sketching, reading and painting.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (Stonyhurst, Whalley, Lancashire) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to his study of the piano; Baillie's competence in law; a reception in honour of Dr. Herbert Vaughan, Bishop of Salford; a request to write something in Greek; his reading of 'Iphigenia among the Tauri'; Alexandrine poetry; the death of their friend [Miles] Fletcher; and his trip to the Isle of Man.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his meeting with Baillie's cousin, Mrs. Cunliffe; his impending trip to Wales; his visit to the Junior Water Colours and the British Institution; his adventures in Wales; and his reading and writing.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Oratory, Edgbaston, Birmingham) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to his students; a previous letter regarding 'The Lady with the Camellias'; writers and morality; a photograph of 'one of Ghiberti's bronze gate panels from the Florence duomo'; and books he has read.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, thanking him for his congratulations. Refers to other classmates' papers; his reading of 'Romola'; an article on the Sandwich Islands by his father; a performance by Mrs. Theodore Martin (Helena Faucit); realism in music; and several acquaintances.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (Blunt House, Croydon) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his reading and writing; the writing of poetry of 'inspiration'; Parnassianism; 'The Odyssey' and Homer.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (St. Joseph's, Bedford Leigh, near Manchester) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to his appointment to Liverpool; a visit from Paravicini and his wife; [Alfred William] Garrett; recent lectures by Bradlaugh and Annie Besant; the arrest of Irish agitators; the trade and people in Bedford Leigh; the artist [Mariano] Fortuny; and his reading.

Postcard from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, Stephen's Green) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie (22 Sackville Street, London), in which he refers to two books on Egypt and discusses several Greek/Egyptian words.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Oratory) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to books he has read and not read; [Alfred William] Garrett; Baillie and a fellowship; Ruskin's new book; Aristotle; his study of the violin; his health; his teaching; his mother's opinion of him taking religious orders; Mrs Cunliffe & other acquaintances. Requests help in securing a tutorship.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to D'Arcy Thompson, a Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland; a new work on Egypt by [Gaston] Maspero; and his own work on Egypt, 'Pindar and the theory of rhythm and the Dorian measure'.

Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to [John] Hannah and the Rectory of Brighton; a photograph that Baillie sent; a book on epigraphy; a decision made by Pope [Leo XIII]; rural and town living; poverty and populations; an incident at the Battle of Majuba Hill, South Africa; and Gladstone.

The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies.