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The University election is a worry but after full consideration RJ will vote for Charles Shaw-Lefevre and Henry Goulburn. The latter should receive Lefevre's second votes. RJ thinks the 'Peelites will never form an administration of their own and will only come in as pendants to the Whigs who by force of circumstances have become the substantially conservative party'. Neither does he 'expect ever to see Goulburn in again at all. We have to choose apparently between him and Law [Charles Ewan Law] - now I should see with [Lord?] Stanley[,] Lord George[,] and Ben Disraeli strong enough to govern the country for a year and against Law who I consider one of them I should be ready to help a much worse man than Goulburn - there is much I admit to like in Stanley's character' but he has no 'practical talent for governing'. Everything at the moment 'points towards a Whig administration'. Did WW read an article on 'the primitive political economy of England in the last Edinburgh - I wrote it for Empson [William Empson - editor of the Edinburgh Review] who was begging for want of matter'.

A letter introducing M. Jullien, a French gentleman and writer on education, who is in England to 'inform himself of our Institutions of learning'.

Trinity Lodge - John Lefevre is coming to stay on Thursday as the college auditor, and WW wonders whether RJ could come and stay then. WW is on the verge of printing his new edition of his History ['The History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time', 3 vols., 1837].

Letters from Prof. G. Pryme, the Bishop of Durham, the Dean of St Patrick's, Sir Thomas Fremantle, William Webb, Lord Charles Hervey, Dr Locock, the Bishop of Ely, Mr Fell, Lord Feilding, Mr Russell, the Bishop of Madras, Lord Ernest Bruce, Archdeacon Hodson, Sir John H. Lowther, Lord Mandeville, J. G. Shaw Lefevre, Rev. H. V. Elliott, Mr Buston, and Eliot Yorke.

19 Ovington Square, Brompton. - His son [William Carew Hazlitt] is a candidate for the Sub-Librarianship of the House of Lords; asks Milnes to stress his literary merit to Sir John Lefavre.

Lefevre [Charles Shaw Lefevre] has written to WW from Trinity Lodge. If he is still there will WW tell him to do what he wants with Herbert's report.