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New York - A letter of introduction for Dr Henry Smith - 'my countryman, who has very much distinguished himself by his intimate acquaintance with moral and metaphysical philosophy & its history'. GB wants to know if Franklin's explanation of 'the phenomena of light by a theory of vibrations had come under your eye?' - since WW does not name him in the prelude to Thomas Young and Augustin Fresnel. He encloses a few sentences from a letter by Franklin [no longer attached].

1 Upper Belgrave Street - Unfortunately Mrs Bancroft cannot come to Cambridge - is it alright if he comes alone? 'I shall myself be most happy to look under your auspices once more in the face of Bacon & Newton,...& all the wisdom that time & wealth & trust & learning have gathered about Trinity College & its neighbours'.

90 Eaton Square - Thanks WW 'for the little gift of the sermon of that one of your divines, whose works I read much in my youth, so that I almost know his Analogy by heart' [WW, 'Butler's Three Sermons on Human Nature', 1848]. Longfellow [Henry Longfellow] was delighted with WW's Evangeline ['Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie', Fraser's Magazine 37, 1848].

London - 'Alas! for human nature that there should be such a tale to be told! but the French inhabitants of Acadie were transplanted like the Jews from Judaea' [the forced expulsion of these people from Nova Scotia under Newcastle's administration in the 18th century]. GB sends WW his account of the events [possibly connected with WW's forthcoming work 'Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie', Fraser's Magazine 37, 1848]. He would have liked to heard WW 'on hypothesis; the a priori pursuit of truth, such when tested at once by facts & experience'.

90 Eaton Square - WW's parcel for Mr Everett [Edward Everett] should be with him by the 18th. GB gives a brief description of his continental trip.