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Concerns the union of the dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor.

Green leather volume, with embossing and gold decoration. Printed illustration from 'Happy New Year' card pasted to inside front cover. Bookplate, 'Ex Libris Bryan William James Hall', with coat of arms and illustration, pasted to front free endpaper.

Numerous autographs, mostly in the form of ends of letters and addresses on envelopes, pasted into book. Notes beneath items (sometimes also pasted in) often identify writers. Complete letters etc have been described in individual records dependent to this one, referenced by their folio numbers; signatures and addressees are referenced by linked authority record only. Some names remain undeciphered or unidentified.

Compiled by a sister of C. W. King, see part letter from King on f. 14r, 'I enclose the autograph of a distinguished Grecian for your book. With love I am, my dear Sister, yours affect[ionate]ly C. W. King'. Although no first name appears, C. W. King's only sister appears to have been Anne, sometimes known as Annette (1824-1874). A letter from W. G. Clark to C. W. King, preserved on the verso of the flyleaf, was sent with 'some autographs for your friend', and there are also envelopes and letters addressed to William Aldis Wright and other members of Trinity suggesting King was actively gathering material for his sister. The bulk of the collection appears to have been assembled between the late 1860s and early 1870s.

Oriel College - Thanks WW for his 'kind remembrance of me in the shape of a sermon, full of amiable and Christian sentiments, preached on the Commemoration day of your illustrious College; with which I always feel somewhat associated because it was my father's College'.

Oriel College - Gladstone's visit to Oxford coincided with the Chapter's meeting to discuss the Candidates Testimonials, and 'I was obliged to stay and receive him'. EH forwarded WW's letter to a member of the Chapter and he is sure it will be fully attended to: 'There must have been , I suppose, many Candidates, for six of them applied to me'. Thanks WW for a copy of his letter to Mansel [Letter to the Author of Prolegomena Logica, 1852]. He was also grateful to WW 'for several ideas new to me who have had no leisure for many years for such pursuits'. EH observes a growing disposition towards exemption for colleges to pay Poor Rates.

Oriel College - Thanks WW for the third part of his work on education ['Of a Liberal Education in General...3. The Revised Statutes 1851-1852', 1852]: 'Though it relates so exclusively to your own Statutes, I found the work very interesting'. EH thinks WW 'appears favourable to the admission of M.A.s of Durham and the London University to 'ad eundem' degrees. We have an application from Durham to this effect now before us, to which I see no objection. But I think graduates of the London University, who have been educated almost anywhere, and upon any principles, ought not to take our titles as if their education had been the same'. EH finds it 'curious that you think it a good thing to have your Statutes unalterable without the Royal consent, which in Oxford is thought intolerable'. EH was sorry to find 'so much jealousy even among you as to a supposed Party of the Heads. it consists here, and with more plausible grounds for it, the Hebdomadal Board having considerable powers, though in truth without any separate interests or wishes. But I had supposed that your Constitution was better, and that you were free from such jealousies. I am very sorry to find it is not so'. The Oxford Commissioners have presented a report but he has not yet seen it.

Oriel College - Information concerning the history of Cambridge and its relationship to the Poor-rates: 'There has been no attempt that I am aware of to make us liable to Borough rates - that is to say, our Colleges - for I suppose that members of the University, occupying houses in the town are rated like other inhabitants'. All the members of the University contribute something towards the expenses of the town. For instance the night police is exclusively in the hands of the University. It also contributes two fifths of the lighting expense. Further, they pay towards the maintenance of the poor by employing the paupers at Union House. They pay indirectly via the tenants in the houses they own in town. All the numerous attempts to make them pay the Poor Rates 'have never led to any decision on the merits'. He gives details concerning the legal position of the University towards the Poor Rates. The University Counsel's Office have decided that the Oxford Commission is not legal or constitutional [see EH to WW, 26 Jan. 1851].

Oriel College - EH cannot properly answer WW's 'questions about our intentions as to the Commission [investigating the Universities]. For we have not yet received Counsel's opinion about the Commission'. EH hears that Cambridge have attained an opinion against the legality of the Commission. 'You have no doubt seen the various sets of Questions sent to us by the Commissioners; very different, as I understand, from those which you have received. Yours, so far as I know them, were such as might (independently of the constitutional question) be fairly asked and answered. Ours are prying, inquisition, and I may say, some of them, impertinent, but at the same time well adapted to draw forth answers from anyone who had a crotchet to gratify, or a scheme of reform in his mind'. At Oxford, it seems, 'the younger members are bursting with impatience to answer. Several, I think, have sent answers. Whilst the older members have actually desired to wait till we know at least our legal position'. EH has heard 'that the younger men with you are indisposed to answer, and that your older members are more disposed to yield'.

Oriel College - EH does not think any jealousy would be entertained at Oxford due to WW's proposed alteration: 'If your students usually reside one term beyond the residence of the terms of three years, to diminish the residence by that term would reduce your undergraduates residence to the amount practically required in Oxford'. EH give details regarding undergraduate term times at Oxford. Thanks WW for the account of the proceedings of the Cambridge Commission.

Oriel College - Details concerning matriculation, in particularly, the number of terms an undergraduate should be in residence. 'There has been no attempt to make us pay Borough Rates, but only Poor-rates. In fact we contribute largely towards the Town expenses'. They also maintain an efficient night police at quite an expense, and contribute a fair amount to the paving, lighting and employ paupers to clean the streets. EH gives his view on the College's relation to the poor rates: 'were it only expected that Heads of Houses and fellows should pay Poor rates, I should say that they ought to do so: and, practically, as we are owners of very many houses in the town, so far we do pay through our tenants. But I think it unfair that the burthen of the poor should be thrown upon the undergraduates, all rated as so many tenants of rooms'. Further an Act procured by the citizens of Oxford some eighty years ago, regulating the poor rates for seven of the parishes, omitted to mention the University: 'Hitherto any attempt to bring us under payment of poor Rates has failed; but nothing has really been decided on the merits'.

Oriel College - What is WW 'doing about the University Commission. For it may be very desirable that we should act in concert'. The Oxford Commission have sent letters to each Head of House and each Professor with a request for information. They have also given the letter to each Visitor to the Colleges to cast their influence and induce the Colleges to send information: 'Some Professors have at once signified their readiness to give every information. Some, and the V.C. and most Heads of Houses, I imagine, have only acknowledged the letters. We shall, I believe, consult Counsel upon the legality etc of the Commission itself'. EH understands that Cambridge took legal advice even before the Commission had formed: 'I think when I had last the pleasure of seeing [you] we were agreed in condemning the Commission, but thought that if it issued, we had better make the best of our circumstances, and give information'. However, 'Gladstone's lately published speech has much shaken me, and made me doubt whether it is not our duty to resist the Commission on public grounds'.

Oriel College - If, in his last letter, EH sounded like he shared in the general opinion about Prince Albert - 'I must have expressed myself ill; for I had been undeceived by that time in fact by our Chancellor'. EH hopes WW did not dislike their Report to the Duke [Duke of Wellington], which in substance coincided very much with your Memorial'. He does not know whether it was the Duke of Wellington or Lord John Russell who allowed the letters to be printed by the public papers: 'Certainly we did not publish them. In fact no one here had even seen the Duke's two notes to Lord John till they appeared in the Papers' [concerning the proposed Commission to investigate the Universities].

Oriel College - EH defending the recent judgement of the Privy Council concerning subscription to the Church of England's Articles and Formularies: 'Surely we need no new Articles of Faith. Ought we not rather to become more comprehensive rather than the contrary? We have no need of any thing which can increase the divisions within the Church of England'.

Oriel College - EH and Mrs Hawkins were sorry they could not see WW and Cordelia Whewell. EH 'was greatly obliged to you for your excellent memorial of the resident members of the Senate'. He is expecting something similar in Oxford, however they are not all against a Commission, some believe that the only way to revise some of the College Statutes 'which would certainly not stop there'. They have been in brief communication with their Chancellor, 'who is decidedly opposed to a Commission and so, I trust is yours'. EH is glad that the Bishops do not seek to add new articles of faith.

Oriel College - Their new Examination Statute passed through another stage this morning. Thanks WW for his present [Of a Liberal Education in General...2. Discussions and Changes 1840-1850, 1850]. The book arrived at a fortunate moment - 'on the very morning when I attempted to induce our Hebdomadal Board to impose duties on our intended Boards for the appointment (or rather nomination) of Examiners in our several Schools'. However the Convocation rejected all their proposed Boards. The nomination of Examiners will be done in all cases by the Vice Chancellor and the Proctors. With the exception of this, the Statute has been passed. EH still retains his objections to the fourth School [see EH to WW, 11 January 1849]: 'it will prevent the study of Mathematics and Physics, which, in Oxford, was one of the chief things needed. At Cambridge I should not have dreaded its effects so much'. The School will attract the idle men and some of their best men at the expense of severe studies. EH does not suspect the Committee of Council on education of 'any sinister designs, or any hostility to the Church of England'.

Rochester - Thanks WW for the programme of subjects and the paper against Hegel - 'beyond my comprehension but I believe I follow your exposition of his absurdities' [On Hegel's Criticism of Newton's Principia, 1849]. In his last letter to WW he sent him a letter from the Chaplain of Rochester attacking Mr Whiston's claims [see AH to WW, 9 July 1849]: 'I send you now a second, which, I trust, shews that most of his main positions are untenable'.

Persleigh, Maldon, Epson - If WW saw 'Mr Whiston's most abusive pamphlet on 'Cathedral Trusts and their Fulfilment' directed against all the Cathedrals of the new Foundation and Rochester in particular, you may like to see the enclosed Paper [A Letter from the Chaplain of Rochester - see EH to WW, 29 Nov. 1849]. It may shew you that we scarcely deserved all the hard names he has given us'. WW is better advanced in his work that they are: 'We could not get our new scheme through the Hebdomadal Board before the vacation; so it will not come on till the Michaelmas Term; but it is of little consequence, since it will not delay the actual commencement of the altered examinations' [see EH to WW, 4 June 1849]. EH has 'no fear of Political Economy, but I think it should follow the undergraduate course. I hold it to be an excellent part of the whole academical course. And hitherto it has therefore been omitted in my proposed 4th school'. EH thinks this school will deflect their best students from the school of Physics [see EH to WW, 11 Jan. 1849].

Oriel College - Thanks WW for his paper on Mathematical Studies. If they 'could bring into operation our Boards for the appointment of our examiners, we might also get them to influence our studies through Reports of this kind...But at present there is a strong prejudice amongst the M.A.s against our proposed Boards'. EH and his colleagues are currently trying to rescue their 'mutilated Examination Statute; and we may probably propose a scheme very like the last, the objections to it having perhaps become weaker as the Members of the Convocation have thought more of it'.

Oriel College - EH scarcely knows what answer to make to WW about their proposed Statutes: 'I think, however, that nothing has actually passed the Convocation and so become a Statute of the university, but the Statute respecting our slight elementary examination called the 'Responsions'' [the first of the three examinations for the BA degree] has been approved and is now law. EH gives more details concerning the examinations and statutes. He would be 'glad to see the Paper of Details you promise me. It may very likely help us; or if not, I am interested in all you do or design'.

Oriel College - Thanks WW for a copy of his 'Fundamental Antithesis' [Second Memoir on the Fundamental Antithesis of Philosophy, 1848]: 'it has given me a world of thoughts, on a very small compass, upon subjects which I am glad to obtain glimpses of'. EH gives an update on developments concerning the changes being made to the Oxford curriculum: 'The principal alteration which this scheme suffered in its passage through the Hebdomadal Board [see EH to WW, 29 Nov. 1848] was the addition of a Fourth School, at the final examination, in Modern History, Moral and Political Science as taught by the moderns, General Jurisprudence etc'. EH greatly regrets this move: 'I fear lest it should induce some of our best minds, our men of rank and future statesmen, to neglect the study of the Classics and Mathematics in order to seek a popular but premature distinction in Modern History etc'. However it does make the 'scheme more systematic and consistent, and much more like your plan' and was carried by a large majority: 'It is your school of Moral Science, or nearly so, but without Political Economy'.

Oriel College - EH encloses a paper circulated privately by the Committee of the Heads of Houses in May last, prior to the report being submitted to the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors - with alterations made in consequence of communications from the Tutors. It is more or less identical to the report now under discussion by the Hebdomadal Board: 'I shall be glad of any remarks. For it will be some time yet before the discussion of the Board closes. 24 persons are too many for such a discussion. Your system of legislation is better than ours'. He encloses a badly written summary of the Oxford scheme. Thanks WW for a copy of his Elements of Morality.

Clevedon, Somerset - Unfortunately due to their children's health, EH and Mrs Hawkins cannot come to stay in Cambridge. EH stupidly left WW's present at Oxford [Butler's Three Sermons on Human Nature, 1848]: 'I was not ignorant of the faults you pointed out some years ago in Paley's writings; though I value them highly nonetheless - some of them very highly - which is not now the fashion in Oxford. But I do not recollect, or do not know, the faults you allude to in Butler. I have not read his sermons, however, for many years'. What WW alludes to in the papers is probably what the majority of the Oxford tutors wish for concerning a considerable alteration in the examinations: 'It was in fact the shape ultimately assumed by the attempts which I mentioned to you in 1845 to bring our Professorial Lectures more into play. But the scheme was rejected'. It would have introduced three examinations of which he gives details.

Oriel College - EH hopes his gift of a copy of his Inaugural Lecture will make up for his delay in thanking WW for his College Sermons [On the Foundations of Morals: Four Sermons, 1837]: 'They ought to give me ideas for my own Chapel.'

Rochester - Thanks WW for his present [Sunday Thoughts and Other Verses, 1847]: 'I have read your Sunday thoughts with great interest and pleasure'.

Written from Oriel College, Oxford.

Oriel College - EH has placed WW's note and recommendation of Mr Hope in the hands of the Vice Chancellor [see EH to WW, 18 May 1847]. Would WW call to the attention of the Cambridge Vice Chancellor the 'Clergy Offences Bill', presented by the Bishop of London: 'I do not know whether your Vice Chancellor has any Ecclesiastical authority, as the V.C. of Oxford has, this University being exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of the Diocese. But if your case is like ours, you may see cause to endeavour to procure the insertion of a clause saving your privileges'.

Oriel College - Details concerning the appointment of a German teacher for the Taylor Institution.

Written from Oriel College.

Oriel College - EH is sorry Cordelia Whewell will not be coming to the BAAS meeting in Oxford. WW is welcome to come on the 22nd [June].