RJ is concerned over 'Buller's [Charles Buller] dangerous illness and the succession to his office - I went to town and after consultation with Ryan [Edward Ryan] wrote to Ld. Monteagle asking his advice'. RJ will not probably see WW in Cambridge for at least another week. Has WW seen the Westminster Review? - 'Neither very fair nor very strong but the readers of the Westminster will be neither worse or wiser for it'.
3 Essex Court, Temple. - Sends first number of his colonial magazine [no longer present]; requests contribution for the next number; 'Our political object is to take the torch which was dropped from the hand of poor Chas Buller, and get something better than the existing system of Colonial administration; hopes Milnes can persuade institutions to subscribe.
Embossed notepaper, 'Vicarage, Mapledurham, Nr Reading'. - Thanks Houghton for assistance; 'goodly quartos of chit-chat' of Charles Buller's time. His brother [Sir John Taylor Coleridge] asserts that Buller was very weak in legal arguments despite brilliance in the House of Commons.
Embossed notepaper, 'Vicarage, Mapledurham, Nr Reading'. - Is unknown to Houghton; asks where he can obtain a copy of Charles Buller's complete dog-Latin epistle, an extract of which appeared in the Monographs.
Blackheath - notice to quit his rooms, profligacy of Brookfield, Thackeray and Buller, Tennyson's sister, coalition between Tories and Radicals, Apostles should be less profane in their conversations
Introduces his cousin George Strachey, who is about to become a member of Trinity.
Monograph also includes notice of Charles Buller, and is accompanied by engraved photographs of both Lady Baring and Buller. pp 225-255, with proof of p. 257 from another version of the Monograph.