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JWL has Richard Jones's medical statistics. Should he send one of his papers on Annuities to Mr Romilly at Dulwich? He has been working hard on tides and has discussed over 9,000 observations made at the London Docks.

JWL will be happy to be of assistance to WW's friend Jones [Richard Jones] in making the calculations of which WW speaks: 'I wish very much to see tables such as that in your letter instead of those vague appearances which are given by writers on population. I have not been able to find any attempt to put into mathematical formulas the relations which exist between the elements of the population. I have endeavoured to explain some of them which depend more immediately upon the law of mortality as the proportion of the living at each age, the ratio of the deaths to the whole population etc'. JWL gives the calculation for the probability of a person living n years ['On the Calculation of Annuities, and on Some Questions in the Theory of Chances', Trans. of the Camb. Phil. Soc., 1830].

A list in Isaac Todhunter's hand, with a short list of the contents of tin boxes, tea chests, and wooden bins containing Whewell's papers and letters followed by a list of sermons and a much longer, calendared list of letters with names of correspondents, dates, summaries and an indication of which letters may be published. In addition, there are lists of letters on architecture, English hexameters, Of the Plurality of Worlds, tides, and letters connected with Richard Jones.

In reference to [Clarke's?] letter concerning Whewell and Richard Jones's view of Ricardo's theory of rent.

JH has asked someone [page torn] to review the book [Literary Remains, Consisting of Lectures and Tracts on Political Economy, of the late Rev Richard Jones, 1859] in the Edinburgh Review. He has also had a copy sent to Sir James Stephen - although JH has heard that Stephen has been involved in an accident while 'on one of his walks'. Further, Stephen wants nothing more to do with the Edinburgh, while of the book he writes: ''I have read a considerable part of it and the result is to convince me that he [Richard Jones] was a vigorous and original thinker, but an indifferent writer, one of those men whose real function or fate it is, to bring together the raw material for better Artists to work up into popular books. John Mill, has, I think, largely used him for this purpose''. JH concludes from this that Stephen would not be averse to a review and that it would be sufficiently favourable. He would also introduce some remarks about the Indian Civil Service. JH gives information concerning notices for the book.

Queen's College - CBC thanks WW for a copy of his Six Lectures on Political Economy. He follows the Ricardian view of rent and does not accept WW's or Richard Jones's criticism of it: 'I do not admit the force of the objection that in the great majority of cases throughout the world the Ricardian rent is not the rent actually paid...the Ricardian rent is the rack-rent plus the tenants rates and taxes'. CBC sees no problem applying this to any type of agriculture. WW's 5th lecture is 'most interesting and satisfactory, but the late rise in rents does not mitigate against Ricardo's theorems as deduced from his definition of rent'.

Item 1, a letter from Whewell to Julius Charles Hare, does not concern Richard Jones or his book.

Lancaster - WW has 'written to Jones [Richard Jones] and have told him that if he can do the service you mention to Mr Wordsworth the poet it will be a very great pleasure to me to have suggested it' [concerning the application of William Wordsworth's son for a position on the Tithe Commission?]. Hopefully Jones will be established in his position on the Commission by this time: 'It has given me very great gratification, not only because I rejoice at the prosperity of an old and valued friend; but because I think it a most appropriate appointment. His general views and his knowledge of details alike fit him for it...The ministers mercifully cared for the measure only so far as it afforded popular outcry, and did not consider themselves the guardians of the interests of the church so far as legislators ought to do; and the conservatives were too peevish and perverse to make the best of what must be done; so that if some one had not asked for us, we should have been crushed in the conflict of parties. Jones's influence, activity and assurance, which I saw in operation daily, were truly admirable. I may add as another reason for any satisfaction that it appears likely that it will require a person who has studied the like as thoroughly as he has to carry it into effect in the most beneficial way'. The only misgiving WW has is that if Jones had not have been appointed HJR may have been: 'I think this must be generally felt; and I will venture to tell you that I know it is felt by Jones so far as to dash his satisfaction at his own appointment in a very considerable degree. I have always told him, that I was sure you would perceive, at least as clearly as other persons, the rightness of the selection'. WW thinks it 'is time that the church should do something soon if she intends to do it at all - for persons of your standing and mine who have been of any use to her, for we are no longer young men. I hope your turn will come before long, for I have yet to make out my case by repairing the philosophy of the age; which I am going to set about in reality'.

Tithe Commission - Ollivant [Alfred Ollivant?] is at present vicar of the parish which RJ's 'illustrious race came from in Montgomeryshire & I have seen something of him - not any like enough to form any opinion however of his talents or temper'. RJ enjoyed his stay in Edinburgh 'with Lord Jeffery for a commentator on all "people and things"'.

WW sends HJR his books including the 3rd edition of his Bridgewater Treatise. WW wishes Richard Jones would send him his second volume on political economy [the never completed sequel to his 'An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation', 1831]. 'As I am ambitious of imposing right mechanical principles into your pupils I send a note of the order in which my numerous books on that matter are to be taken. There is still wanting a 6th volume to complete the series, of which I shall publish a new edition as soon as I can find time'.

Review in The Homeward Mail 6 Apr. 1859 and The Hertford Mercury of 16 Apr. 1859, accompanied by two printed tables of wheat rents.

The Vice-Chancellor has informed WW that they are not disposed favourably toward JCH's scheme [the Coleridge prize, see WW to JCH, 27 Oct. 1834]: 'the objection is not to any accidental and extraneous part of the scheme, but to the name of Coleridge'. His name is still associated with his earlier reputation than with 'the Christian philosophy which he has impressed upon so many in his riper years'. Richard Jones has been appointed the new Professor of Political Economy at Haileybury. However with the uncertain future of the College the position may not last long.

WW will not be able to visit JCH. Richard Jones is a candidate to succeed Thomas Malthus at Haileybury: 'I hope he will prosper both for his sake and for that of the institution, for his classifications of the forms and attributes of the various national systems of Europe and Asia is the proper instruction for those who go from us to manage India'.

Richard Jones recommends 'Owens Dictionary and Grammar' to WW, 'saying that without their assistance he did not think you would make much progress in the language of the ancient Britons'. DLM is back in London and has met a student from the University of [Louvain] only recently re-established in the Netherlands: 'my informant said their course of mathematical reading was confined to the works of Lacroix, tho' in Algebra and Fluxions they were obliged to content themselves with the Manuscripts of their Professors'.

Could JCH send WW his letters to the Athenaeum Club. An update on WW's possible plans to go to Germany. Richard Jones 'holds that the story of Wordsworth and his daughter is certainly true in the essential points'.

WW has not yet taken steps to send HJR the sermons he requested. WW has not been able to find the first memoir HJR wanted regarding his work on inscriptions. 'I hope you are going on well and bursting into birth' ['Inscriptiones Graecae Vetustissimae/ Collegit, et Observationes tum Aliorum tum suas Adjecit Hugo Jacobus Rose', 1825]. When is Richard Jones to be married?: 'I sent him down some of the volumes of the French Encyclopaedia lately to establish his political economy'. WW gives a copy of one of the inscriptions he has found.

Written from Haileybury. Concerns the candidatures of Prince Albert and the Earl of Powis for the office of Chancellor of the university.

JCH congratulates WW on the number of Trinity wranglers, but is disappointed WW will not be coming to visit him at Hurstmonceux. JCH has not heard anything further regarding the Coleridge prize essay [see JCH to WW, 24 Oct. 1834]. Richard Jones 'would certainly be an admirable person for Hayleybury [Professor of Political Economy at the East India College]. My acquaintance with Charles Grant is very slight. However, should he come back to the Board of Control, before the new professor is appointed, I will write to him about Jones's claims'.