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Royal Observatory Greenwich - Miss Sheepshanks will give £2000 (and possibly up to £3000) towards a new instrument for the Cambridge Observatory [see GA to WW, 12 Nov. 1860].

Royal Observatory Greenwich - Have the relevant persons made up their mind as to what instrument they wish to acquire for the Cambridge Observatory (as a gift from Miss Sheepshanks): 'she looks despondingly to the duration of her own life (Her age is above 70). She would be very glad to have any thing of the nature of a gift settled as early as possible' [see GA to WW, 28 Aug. 1860].

Royal Observatory Greenwich - Can WW make it known to the relevant persons, that Miss Sheepshanks anonymously 'is willing to give to the [Cambridge] Observatory any good, handsome, splendid, expensive, instrument that may be useful to it' [see GA to WW, 28 Aug. 1860].

Royal Observatory Greenwich - Miss Sheepshanks has unexpectedly received some money from her late brothers property [Richard Sheepshanks], and would like to put it with the existing Sheepshanks Fund [for background see GA to WW, 30 Sept. 1856]. It could be used toward the purchase of a Transit-Circle. 'The [Sheepshanks] Exhibition was, with my consent, practically limited to Trinity: I think that the College have good right to claim such prerogative as recompense for their trouble. But it would perhaps be more efficient if perfectly open'.

Royal Observatory Greenwich - A minor technicality concerning the Sheepshanks endowment: 'I conceive that there is not the smallest difficulty about the departure from Deed-Regulation on the matter of notice from Managing Body to Trustees, in this year's disposal of the Sheepshanks Fund Proceeds'.

Royal Observatory Greenwich - GA encloses the Deed of Gift in the matter of the Sheepshanks Endowment [see GA to WW, 30 Sept. 1856]. Wilfred Airy has returned home with the Senate House Papers: 'I have looked over them carefully. I see pretty clearly the state of things, and do not think the worse of Wilfred for his place. I am much dissatisfied with the examination. Your Smith's Prize Revision of the upper places has cast upon the examination such a slur as I never knew before'.

Royal Observatory Greenwich - The Sheepshanks endowment will be nearly in place once Miss Sheepshanks executes the Transfer of stock and the Deed of Gift [see GA to WW, 30 Sept. 1856]. Thus WW and Trinity Seniors should prepare the time and circumstances for the examination of scholarship.

Confidential. Royal Observatory Greenwich - Miss Sheepshanks [Richard Sheepshanks sister] wants to use some of her brother's money in a way he would have liked: 'Her thoughts naturally turn to Astronomy, Cambridge, Trinity. and she has in the final instance consulted me about it'. It is her wish that GA and WW 'should decide entirely about it'.