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Written from Cogenhoe Rectory, Northampton.

Northampton - It has been decided that the literary remains of Winthrop M. Praed should be published under the care of his friend Moultrie [John Moultrie]. Could WW write a tribute to Praed: 'His name stands so conspicuously on the records of University fame'.

Northampton - An artist CHH knows is currently engaged in painting a picture from WW's translation of Hermann and Dorothea. He intends to send it to the exhibition at the National Gallery. 'Colonel Colby [Thomas Colby] is a most valuable person - most obliging - and he furnishes me with information of the most serviceable kind'.

Is going to Oakham with Lord Northampton to give a lecture on the history and architecture of that place; sends his book, remarks that he wants to learn more from the Pipe rolls of Henry III and his three successors; admires Schlegel: 'The day I first opened the pages of Schlegel a new world of ideas burst on my mind'.

Little Wenlock Rectory, Wellington, Shropshire - CHH sends WW a picture he has done of Caernarvon Castle. He has 'just made sufficient advancement in art to see clearly my defects'. He gives his opinion on the effect of colours in painting, followed by a description of his own work. When is a painting too grey or green?: 'Is it possible to be too natural, for things to be too like nature in painting? I think not in Landscape - But I think it is in Historical Subjects'. Could WW give him some information concerning microscopes.