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London - thanks him for the pamphlets, Dean of Chester now Bishop

has discovered Randell of Peterhouse is the son of an acquaintance, Barrowclough will support Lyttleton

Bank Street, Norwich - had no vote in the election for High Steward but campaigned on behalf of Lord Lyttelton, "Lord Lyndhurst had evidently a strong influence on the corrupt affections of the country", agitation of the Chartists at an emancipation meeting, concern
about his Roman history

Hagley - met [Richard Monckton?] Milnes and [Edward?] O'Brien at Lord Northampton's, "Jupiter Tonans of Trinity"

[42 Portland Place] - encloses item belonging to William Blakesley that Lady Ltttleton carried off the previous day

[42 Portland Place] - notes on Luke 1:1, hopes that Blakesley has accepted the Deanery of Lincoln

42 Portland Place - has finished his contribution on St Matthew

Hagley - Franco-Prussian war

Hagley - mother died in great pain, Sheddon, Col. Webb

36 Old Compton Street, Soho Square. - Milnes' kindness; situation offered by Mr Watkins of 38 Nelson Square will be lost if he cannot find a referee in London; his own are out of town but Lord Lyttelton will vouch for him if necessary.

Hagley - GWL's character, has been foxhunting

does not have Aldman's pamphlet, did not go to the "big meeting", did not go to the [Sterling] Club

38 St James' Place - cannot agree with dogmatic resolutions, church matters

Brighton - agrees with Blakesley's idea of a universal examination and reform of the public schools, Lyttelton's Aristotle lectures, [Gorham business], doctrine of baptismal regeneration

Hagley - thanks him for his information on the professorship and the electors for it, admits to being Whewell's anonymous correspondent

Hagley - Lord Powis' address has put an end to speculations about the posts of Chancellor and High Steward, Powis most popular, Lyndhurst only a poor Baron, under no circumstances would he stand in a contest but he would accept a post if no-one stood against him, visit of Gladstone:

39 Grosvenor Place - thanks for the list (of books), congratulates him on his move to Ware, question of Welsh bishoprics

Hagley - death of [Henry] Coddington, rubrication in the Church

Hagley - Blakesley's pamphlet "extremely interesting", Cambridge system did not encourage original composition, would prefer a universal degree preceding specialisation in one subject

Hagley - Blakesley's account of the manufactures of Germany, economic theory of purse-politics, economic problems of British agriculture, fear of giving people an excess for doing nothing, ingrained evil of the Poor Laws, The Chains of Labour by Charles Buller, death of [John] Sterling, typhoid in his household, hopes to see a large school for ironworkers at Hawarden, the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge to publish an address to servants on the communion written by Lyttelton

London - tried to get a copy of the works of St Simon, pamphlet he got from Miss Holmes weak but accurately written

Hagley - Dr Jelf's appointment, possibility of Lady Lyttleton becoming a Lady of the Bedchamber, forthcoming visit to Hawarden

Letters dated 22 Mar. 1848 and 24 Mar. 1848 written from 17 St. James's Place. Letter dated 24 Sept. 1848 written from Hagley.

Hagley - Blakesley's "Kendal prospects", railways, election of Henry Warburton as MP for Kendal, "flabbergasted" by Miller and the Philosophical Society, failure in the election for the High Stewardship, presumption of offering himself for office, Prince Albert to be Chancellor [of the University]

Hagley - Dispensation of Paganism forwarded both by Lyttelton and Newman, widow of H. N. Coleridge [Sara] "has written something great on Rationalism" Blakesley right to leave Cambridge, feels that a literary life is his vocation, marriage on small means, Master of Magdalen, delay about the bishopric seems against French

Hagley - classics books that he would like, "blow out" on the christening of a son and heir, younger brother is curate at Kettering

Metropolitan Improvement Office - will be happy to circulate Blakesley's book, Bishop of Ely has written to say that he has no vacant livings, saw John Heath at the Athenaeum, Vice-Master continuing to take pupils, Bishop Thirlwall in bodily fear of Rebecca, Carlyle going to visit him, expects disturbances in Staffordshire, madness of the Bishop of Bath and Wells