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Add. MS c/52/36 · Item · [19 May 1831]
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Brasted - RJ has received a very positive letter from Lord Lansdowne concerning RJ's book ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and the Sources of Taxation', 1832]: 'he had read it with the attention it so eminently deserves'. Having thus read the book he concluded that they [Ricardians] had fallen 'into error by reasoning too much from narrow grounds and that he values proportionably better views - sound inductions etc.'. Lansdowne wants RJ to call on him when in London. 'I am pleased - it is a good and leading opinion gained and apparently strongly gained and apparently strongly pronounced and you whose reputation is more than half committed to the book will not I am sure be above being pleased too'.

Add. MS c/67/112 · Item · 28 Dec. 1855
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He admits that Columbus' egg is a myth. Discusses the relationship of obtuseness or acuteness of sides to obtuse and acute angles in a spherical triangle and proposes a theorem; has found nothing in the literature of the affections of oblique triangles. Accompanied by a drawing of a [spherical triangle?] with the note, "Yours came in after I had written the above. You are right, as here appears."

Add. MS c/1/87 · Item · 23 Sept. 1856
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Glenlair – Reacts to news of Robert Henry Pomeroy’s death in the Indian rebellion and reflects at length on memory and grief; a little girl in one of his men’s houses has died; is at home for a month with his aunt Mrs [Isabella] Wedderburn.

Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1832-1903) Barrister Clerk to Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Add. MS c/1/91 · Item · 9 Sept. 1856
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Glenlair. Has been at Aberdeen, is now on holiday with friends, invites Litchfield, mentions friends Robert Henry Pomeroy and Wilfred Lucas Heeley, discusses different ways of summing up the personalities of friends.

Litchfield, Richard Buckley (1832-1903) Barrister Clerk to Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Letters from William Wyon
Add. MS c/91/109-112 · Item · 1849-1850
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Letters relating to the Wrangham medal, making reference to the design (5 Feb. 1849) and production of the medals (21 Jan., 6 Feb. and 8 Oct. 1850).

Add. MS c/51/107 · Item · [1 June 1831]
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WW rejoices 'especially in Lord Lansdowne's mode of approbation' over RJ's book ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation: Part 1. - Rent', 1831]. He has received his proof sheets from the British Critic ['Review of An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and Sources of Taxation by the Revd Richard Jones', The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, 10, 1831]: 'I think I will not send you them. I do not like them at all but shrink from the task of altering them so as to make them good'. William Buckland and his wife are coming to stay next week.