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JWT sends WW the result of some observations made by Totten [George M. Totten?] concerning the level of the oceans. He sends his commiserations to WW on the loss of his wife. JWT has been some time in Nicaragua 'watching events in this unhappy country which are fast approaching a crisis'.

RS does not mind the college losing Fellows to marriage. He hopes Cordelia Whewell 'is reasonably well, which I fear is the superior limit in her case'.

Includes two copies of a history of Dick Neckernought, "copied from an ancient manuscript found in the buttery of St Johns College, Cambridge" valentines, including one addressed to Margaret Doria, and a birthday poem, and a poem identified in later pencil as by S. H. Myers [Susan Harriet Myers?], and another by C. W. [Cordelia Whewell]; also, the beginning of a verse play about Annanias, with a description of a scenes 1-3 of Act I.

JCH has probably heard that the mastership of Trinity is vacant by the resignation of Christopher Wordsworth: 'I do not know whether you think me a fit person to succeed him; but so many of my friends expect the office to be offered me'. If WW had time he would tell JCH 'how rightly you judge, in my opinion, when you deem Cordelia such a wife as my moral being required. I may venture to say that that was one main consideration in my choice'.

WW now thinks of his future 'with unmingled hope and comfort, and of Cordelia [Cordelia Marshall] as my good angel'. WW has to attend 'this great ugly meeting at Plymouth' [BAAS] and then examine for the Trinity Fellowships. After this he hopes they shall 'take up our abode at a house which one of Cordelia's brothers has upon Coniston Lake. Do you think it will be desirable to found a school of Lake philosophy as well as of Lake poetry?' WW needs some advice concerning his Moral Philosophy. He thinks he may be looking at a certain problem too systematically and technically, and wants JCH to have a guess at the truth of his subject: 'when crimes are committed in consequence of habitual vices, how is the guilt to be assigned respectively to the habit and to the act? Is the habit a palliation or an aggravation of the crime? Is the condemnation of the moralist to fall, for instance, upon the vice of covetousness or upon acts of dishonesty? Is covetousness which never breaks out in dishonesty, or dishonesty which arises only from a transient covetousness, the more immoral? or, if it be not the best way to talk about 'more immoral', what is the way?'

Two items are about a different topic and date from a different time: they concern the papers left by William Whewell after his death (items 59 and 110).

Part of a collection gathered by Cordelia Whewell. See also items in this box: 26-125, and 273-323.

Franks of:

• Hon. Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham
• Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich
• Christopher Bethell, Bishop of Gloucester, later Bangor
• Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of Chester, later London
• Thomas Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury
• Robert James Carr, Bishop of Chichester
• Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff
• Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York
• William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Banks Jenkinson, Bishop of St David's
• John Kaye, Bishop of Bristol, later Lincoln
• Charles Thomas Longley, Bishop of Ripon
• John Lonsdale, Bishop of Lichfield
• John Luxmoore, Bishop of St Asaph
• Spencer Madan, Bishop of Peterborough
• Edward Maltby, Bishop of Chichester, later Durham
• Herbert Marsh, Bishop of Peterborough

Accompanied by a list by Isaac Todhunter of poetry not in Whewell's handwriting or not identified as written by him. Includes printed poems, a clipping headed "For the Lancaster Gazette. Melancholy", another poem tentatively identified by Todhunter as by Martha Statter, beginning "We wish thee joy as pure and bright", a poem headed "Darwin on Species", with other poems, and riddles, including a rhyming "Imaginary conversation between a Freshman & Messrs. Herschell & Whewell". Two of the riddles carry later initials in pencil C. W., Cordelia Whewell? A copy of a poem by Jakob Lenz, "Die Liebe auf dem Lande" may have originally accompanied a letter from Eduard Wilke dated 31 Mar. 1853 [Add.MS.a.81/415].

AS is looking forward to the possibility of seeing WW and Cordelia Whewell in January: 'my house will be at your service'. AS will try to persuade George and Richarda Airy to come up. 'Poor Hudson Gurney left Norwich for London a few days since - It is not expected that he will ever return. Since he reached Norwich he has on the whole been better; but he is obliged to have a surgeon constantly with him - His loss will be felt by many'. AS's gout does not disturb him much now.

Hallsheads - JCH's congratulations on WW's engagement to Cordelia Marshall were particularly welcome: 'She is what you tell me the poet describes her to be, and will, I am persuaded, fulfil his predictions'. WW had long been feeling that his life at Cambridge was no longer morally and spiritually wholesome: 'I was desirous of marrying that I might become a better man, and I hope it may please God that the step may have that result...I trust you will think that though Cordelia is not perhaps the wife you would have expected me to chuse, I have chosen well, she is gentle and good and affectionate'. WW thinks they shall live mainly in Cambridge where he will continue to pursue his philosophy. He saw Ma-man with her husband a few days ago in London. [WW attaches a comical verse to the letter].

The doctor is convinced that Cordelia Whewell is making progress in her health. WW's translation of Grotius is at the press. What is to come of RJ at Haileybury? Maria Herschel was here with Cordelia for three months.

Part of a collection gathered by Cordelia Whewell. See also items 5-125 in this box.

Franks of:

• John, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott
• James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon
• Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon
• Charles William Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville
• John Colville, 9th Lord Colville of Culross
• Charles George Perceval, 1st Baron Arden
• Baron Garvagh
• [Gray?]
• Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home
• John Erskine, Earl of Mar and Kellie
• David Leslie, 8th Earl of Leven and 7th Earl of Melville
• Earl of Mexborough
• John Savile, 2nd Earl of Mexborough
• George Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton
• George Nugent Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent of Carlanstown
• [Alexander Napier?]
• Thomas John Hamilton FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney
• Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensbury
• James Andrew John Laurence Charles Drummond, 8th Viscount Strathallan
• William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow
• Somerset Lowry Corry, 2nd Earl of Belmore
• Francis Bernard, 1st Earl of Bandon
• John Evans Freke, 6th Baron Carbery
• Somerset Butler, 3rd Earl of Carrick
• Francis William Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont
• William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty
• Hayes St Leger, 3rd Viscount Doneraile
• [Downes?]
• Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye
• Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley
• John Willoughby Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen
• Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort
• Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
• David Leslie Melville, 8th Earl of Leven and 7th Earl of Melville
• Edmond Henry Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick
• John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo
• Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl of Mountcashell
• Charles Henry St John O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill
• George Thomas John Nugent, 8th Earl of Westmeath
• Unidentified franks

Part of a collection gathered by Cordelia Whewell. See also items in this box: 5-25, 114-125, and 273-323.

Franks of:

• George Hamilton-Gordon, the 4th Earl of Aberdeen
• John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp
• Thomas Howard, Viscount Andover
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Baron Ashley
• Richard Grosvenor, Viscount Belgrave
• Somerset Lowry-Corry, Earl of Belmore
• Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
• Thomas Haddington, Lord Binning
• George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford
• George Augustus Frederick Henry, 2nd Earl of Bradford
• John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl of Brecknock
• Frederick William Hervey , 5th Earl of Bristol
• Charles Brudenell-Bruce, Lord Bruce
• Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Duke of Buckingham
• Marquess of Bute
• George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
• Viscount Castlereagh
• Earl of Clanbrassil
• Edward Bligh, Lord Clifton
• Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham
• James, 2nd Baron De Saumarez
• Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4th Marquess Devonshire
• Hugh Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington
• Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismore
• Baron Rt. Hon Sir Charles Long Farnborough
• Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam
• Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner
• A. [Hay?]
• William Henry Ashe Holmes-à Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury
• [Howe?]
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
• George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly
• [Jermyn?]
• Thomas Taylour, Lord Kenlis
• Edmond Henry Pery, Earl of Limerick
• Viscount Loftus
• William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
• William Henry Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton
• [Mackintosh?]
• Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers
• Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton
• Gilbert Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto
• Henry James Scott Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton
• George Howard, Viscount Morpeth
• Henry Francis Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles
• Thomas Spring-Rice, 1st Lord Monteagle
• [Napier?]
• Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
• Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess Northampton
• [Northwick?]
• John Savile, Viscount Pollington
• Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor Beauchamp
• Algernon Percy, Baron Prudhoe
• Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale
• George, 3rd Baron Rodney
• John, 1st Baron Rolle
• Archibald John Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery
• Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
• [Stanley?]
• [Strathavon?]
• Thomas Howard, 16th Earl Suffolk
• William Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
• Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet
• William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck, Marquess of Tichfield
• William Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge
• Ernest Edgcumbe, Viscount Valletort
• Thomas, Baron Wallace
• James Archibald Stuart Wortley Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe
• [Wilberforce?]
• [Wilton?]
• Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester
• Charles Anderson Pelham, Baron Worsley
• Illegible signatures

Written from 5 Cheyne Row. Possibly addressed to Cordelia Marshall, later Mrs Whewell.

Trinity Lodge - WW and Cordelia Whewell are going north to look after CW's sick father (John Marshall). WW's Morality is out ['The Elements of Morality, Including Polity', 2 vols., 1845] and he would be thankful for any comments RJ may have.

Part of Cordelia Whewell's frank collection. Includes a letter to Cordelia from E. M. about procuring franks for her.