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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.

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.

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'.