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For some time WT has been interested in establishing a fund for the repair of Barsseston church. In aid of the fund he gave a small wood cut of the church for sale, and afterwards made a careful drawing of the interior to be published in further aid of the fund. He has sold many at Oxford but has not had the opportunity to do so in Cambridge. They have nearly completed the exterior but have not enough funds for the interior - does WW think the Cambridge Camden Society would help out? In the course of the repairs it seems that the church is made out of materials stemming from another dating about 1184.

Thanks WW for his note and donation [see WT to WW, 30 Oct. 1840].

WW's reply was sufficiently to the point. WT's object was to obtain WW's influential name before they started. 'I have put my threat into execution and have seceded (as an honorary member) from the Cambridge Camden Society. I felt it anything but an honor to be even a nominal member of a Society whose flippancy and ignorance are unmatched: - the first being the consequence of the last'. WW has not, WT believes, paid much attention to Italian Gothic: 'I am at present rather interested as to the degree of knowledge the Italians had of Gothic architecture in the 13th century'.

What success has WW had at Cambridge respecting the subscription for Thomas Rickman's monument?

WT sends WW three possible designs for Thomas Rickman's monument. The committee are unanimous in selecting number two.

Details concerning the inscription for the proposed Thomas Rickman monument.

Engraved by W. S. Wilkinson, from a drawing by William Twopeny.