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The doctors opened another one of RJ's tumors. He is feeling very weak. He received WW's lecture - 'we all like it here Empson [William Empson] especially I think' ['The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition of the Progress of Art and Science', 1851]. WW's 'analogy between the relations of Criticism to Literature and Science to Art strikes me as very interesting [-] you subsequently distinguish between science as the exponent of art and the mother of art now I think this distinction a pregnant one - would it be worth your while to follow it up and give a table of instances - the first vintage or if that is not a work you would like could you not get some younger hand at the task - It would tell as the subject expands'. RJ's 'own projects are just what they were. I wish I could see any thing likely to be done when parliament meets - but I am passive and in good hands. Ld. Monteagle [Thomas Spring-Rice] has shewn a very kind interest in me'.

RJ is pleased to say that WW's application to the Bishop of London on RJ's account, 'was the beginning of a move which appears likely to end in good and I enjoy the prospect the more because I feel how much of it I owe to you[.] Ld. Monteagle has been actively at work and finding a stronger feeling than I expected in part of the house of Lords[,] he has drawn up a statement (oddly enough a note from him is while I am writing put into my hands) which he now tells me has got signed by Richmond - Lansdowne - Fitzwilliam - Fortescue - Stradbroke - Harrowby - St. Germains - Brougham - Portman - Hatherton - Monteagle - and he means to try to get it signed by the Bishop of London (who is willing) and the Archbishop of York[,] the Bishop of Lichfield and the Bishop of Lincoln whom he is applying to. The getting these last signatures will occasion a little delay which is not perhaps any great mischief just now when Ld. Derby of course can think of nothing but the elections. The lay peers I am told are hearty and decided and say they will take part in any parliamentary movement if it should be necessary - of course I hope it may not - I need not speak and indeed could not do it adequately of Ld. Monteagle's kindness perseverance and efficient aid - he has done all and more than all that even you could expect or wish - and now we must wait a little longer in good hope however and with a certainty that my public life is not wholly forgotten'. Lord Derby 'will have 300 the Whigs say in the new parliament. Dizzy swears many more. The opposition 356 are divided into 3 squads. I am told indeed into 4 for there is a strong anti-Johnny feeling growing up among the pure Whigs - they might carry a vote of want of confidence but are not very likely to do it for they say themselves that they could not construct a lasting government. So it is thought likely Ld. D will stay in for a time. The Peelites, and some Whigs and radicals, speculate on a new parliament very soon for they must get one they say which will enable somebody to govern the country and the street boys echo - don't you wish they may get it'.

RJ is anxious to know from Lord Monteagle whether his 'memorial has gone in'. Edward Ryan does not want RJ to write to Monteagle 'as he says he fully relies on his doing what he is best and does not like me to plague him'. The Cambridge Commission are all in London - George Peacock looks much better and Adam Sedgwick is blooming: 'Their report will be out in a week or 10 days at farthest[.] The evidence and report together will about equal the Oxford blue book in size - the report about 200 folio pages and that is all I know about'. No one knows what the composition of the next parliament will look like: 'The official Whigs say they have 316 and Ld. Derby 316 - 22 uncertainties[.] But the Whigs count the Irish Brigade 100 and the Hurnite radicals (100) and Ld. D's 316 are likely to split like a racket it is said and so the Peelites look on and expect to win at last'. RJ lives currently mainly at the Athenaeum.

RJ sends WW an abstract from a letter from Lord Monteagle which he got this morning: 'you will see he has been hard at work and a brother or you could have done no more - something must surely come of it but what is doubtful[.] The abstract of Monteagle's letter reveals the names attached to RJ's memorial.

RJ is still waiting nervously to know what his future will be: 'Ld. Derby apparently has sent no answer to either Lord Monteagle or the Bishop of London [-] it is impossible I think that he should dismiss the parties to Ld. Monteagle's memorial contemptuously. Ryan and I had been talking of getting you to press the Bishop to find out something of Ld. Derby's feeling. The pension I fear he has resolved against - though there is some hope that when parliament meets he may be squeezed about it not much hope I fear'. RJ would like to talk to WW over some plans and projects connected with public services which he has discussed with Edward Ryan. RJ will send WW 'what I have got through of the raw materials for my book of lectures[.] If I live one or two years more I shall have done enough to enable some one to develop my views even if I fall short of doing it myself'. RJ depends on WW 'for noting gaps in the argument or want of development in parts'.

RJ received a letter from Lord Monteagle containing one from Lord Derby. It seems Derby is unfavorable toward a pension but favorable about any office which might suit RJ. Consequently with the imminent resignation of Buller, Monteagle has advised RJ to apply for his office.

Re death of Augustus Stafford.

RJ's letter arrived like a 'thunder clap': WW and George Peacock will set off instantly on the course RJ recommends to London. They will go to either Lord Monteagles's at 37 Lower Brook Streeet, or to 42 Upper Grosvernor Street. WW is delighted with the warm friendship of Peacock's letter: 'The knowledge of such feelings on his part is a great good gained whatever comes of the result'.

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

The Athenaeum Club - WW has just arrived at the Athenaeum Club from the Continent. He has heard nothing from Monteagle [Thomas Spring-Rice] or anyone else concerning RJ's affairs.

Written from Torquay.

Concerns the candidatures of Prince Albert and the Earl of Powis for the office of Chancellor of the university.

Beccles.—Returns a receipted bill, along with some cases and opinions bearing the signatures of various eminent lawyers.

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Transcript

My dear Sir.

I return you our bill with an acknowl[edgmen]t of having rec’ed {1} the amount, & with it some cases & opinions to which you will find the signatures of the present Chanc[ello]r & Master of the Rolls {2} attach’d—also an opinion of the late Sir Anth[on]y Hart & two Letters from the late Mr Kerrison {3}—one, altho’ the signature only is in his hand-writing is truly characteristic of the man & is no doubt, what it professes to be, a copy from one of his own composition & writing— {4}

Your’s dear Sir very truly
E. C. Sharpin

Beccles Feb[ruar]y 22. 1836

[Superscription:] Dawson Turner Esq | Yarmouth

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The missing letters from words abbreviated by superscript letters have been supplied in square brackets.

{1} Abbreviated by a bar over ‘ce’.

{2} Thomas Spring Rice and Lord Langdale.

{3} Probably Matthias Kerrison, the so-called ‘Bungay millionaire’.

{4} About two lines’ worth of words here have been written over by the writer in order to render them meaningless. The documents mentioned were clearly sent in order that Turner might add them to his collection of autographs.

Concerning Woolner's bust of Tennyson. Letters dated from 26 May 1859-30 Oct. 1859.

Concerning Woolner's bust of Tennyson.

Concerning the purchase of Woolner's bust of Tennyson.