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JCH's hexameters arrived just as he is to begin printing [Dialogues on English Hexameters, 1847]. 'I should like much to have some of Schiller's [Friedrich Schiller] Epigrams. I have myself translated 'Columbus' and 'Odysseus' which I shall insert, and I shall be much obliged for any which you can give me soon'. It was not WW who submitted the translation of Homer to the Blackwood [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]. He has tried to put it into English hexameters but has never been satisfied with the result. If JCH wants to give WW a specimen of his Homer: 'it will add to the interest of the collection and answer my purpose of showing how familiar to cultured men the English rhythm is'. Can JCH recommend a 'good discussion of the question of Church and State as it effects the continental nations, Germany and France'. WW must rewrite that part of his work in morality entirely [The Elements of Morality, Including Polity, 2 vols., 1845]: 'One improvement in the mode of treating the subject will be to avoid the word 'Church' altogether'. WW has of course 'Bunsen's [Christian C. J. Bunsen] 'Church of the future' but that is not a general view of the question'. [Frederick Apthorp] Paley has been told to give up his rooms at St. John's College [see WW to JCH, 26 Oct. 1846]. Thomas Worsley is printing his second volume of his Christian advocate's book [see WW to JCH, 3 Nov. 1845]: 'The style is much better and simpler than it was in the first; the matter still to my thinking very vague and dreamy'.

WW 'was very glad to hear, first from Douglas Gordon, and afterwards from Maurice [John F. D. Maurice] and Trench [Richard Chenevix Trench] that the King of Saxony has sent you a mark of his interest and satisfaction in what you had done respecting German theology. I am glad of it for his sake, quite as much as for yours'. JCH was wrong in supposing that 'the very dishonest private tutor that you read of in the newspaper was a Trinity tutor'. The person was [Frederick Apthorp] Paley from St. John's College: 'well known as an extreme Romanizer. I had several months ago remonstrated with the Master of St. John's for allowing him to reside in College'.

United University Club, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall. - Recommends Charles Augustus Fennell for Professorship of Comparative Philology at University College. Professor Paley's support. Henry Sykes Thornton has written to Mr Fowler. Fennell was 9th Classic at Cambridge but did not take a mathematical degree owing to illness.

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