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Further to the 'Wardenship of our northern Trinity [see CHT to WW, 25 Oct. 1844]. An Oxford man, Scott (of the firm Liddle and Scott) had such very high recommendations, that I had no chance for any Cambridge man. We have still difficulties, springing out of the same question that has been agitating the Ch. of England for so long - the question between Protestantism and Catholicity'. Consequently CHT [Bishop of Edinburgh] has 'taken refuge in my old Cambridge studies - and I take the liberty of sending you a sample of my inventions'.

For some years they have been 'employed in getting up a school or college in Scotland for the education of the young of our church, and also for training candidates for orders'. They want to start next year with a Sub-Warden: 'The election rests with the six Bishops of the Scotch Episcopal Church. Now I suppose there must be in Cambridge many men quite qualified for all I have mentioned'. However 'the difficulty lies in the strong conflict of opinions prevailing among us, as among you in England' regarding Tractarians and Puritans: 'I am very desirous of having a Cambridge rather than an Oxford man' because this problem is less embedded at Cambridge, and secondly because they want someone with a knowledge of science as well as Greek and Latin. He must be in Priests orders and should not be under 30.

Thirteen letters, five written by Adam Sedgwick (one of them a copy), the rest sent to him, by David Milne Home, John Phillips, Joseph Edleston, and C. H. Terrot.