Encloses a transcript of a letter from Dennis Le Marchant to [Thomas?] Paynter concerning the Senate House examination in 1818.
Richard Jones recommends 'Owens Dictionary and Grammar' to WW, 'saying that without their assistance he did not think you would make much progress in the language of the ancient Britons'. DLM is back in London and has met a student from the University of [Louvain] only recently re-established in the Netherlands: 'my informant said their course of mathematical reading was confined to the works of Lacroix, tho' in Algebra and Fluxions they were obliged to content themselves with the Manuscripts of their Professors'.
Describes the Trinity College admissions process in answer to Le Marchant's enquiry concerning the admission of his nephew [Sir Charles Cunliffe Smith?].
Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science