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encloses cheque for bill, invitation to dinner

Correspondence concerning the donation of a print of Mill to Trinity College by Henry Manning Ingram, with four letters from his friend and Trinity College Master Henry Montagu Butler dated Jan. 1908, with two other letters relating to Mill sent to Ingram, one of them from J. H. Cooper enclosing a letter from Mill to Charles Gordon. After H. M. Ingram's death, the correspondence continues, with 18 letters between his son Arthur D. Ingram (carbon typescripts) and Butler (originals). Much of the correspondence deals with the wording for the accompanying plaque and inscription on the back of the frame featuring biographical information for William Hodge Mill and Henry Manning Ingram, and is accompanied by six letters from Mill's grandsons Philip G. L. and Edmund Webb, and letters from James Gow and James Marshall. In addition, there are six letters sent to and from W. H. Mill: two to and from Thomas Robinson, two from C. A. Fowler, two more from Mill to [Samuel?] Wilberforce and Mill's mother.

Signed by Henry Edward Manning, Robert Isaac Wilberforce & William Hodge Mill.

WW is reading JCH's sermon and is 'much reminded of the structure of some of Schleiermacher's [Friedrich Schleiermacher] sermons which I had read long ago'. Blakesley is desirous of the situation at Tonbridge school [see WW to JCH, 30 July 1843]. Mill [William H. Mill] 'will probably also be thought of; and of his great merits there can be no doubt - nor of some dangers which would attend his appointment to the office'. News regarding posts within Trinity College.

College, Ely - WHM encloses a letter from his friend, Hamilton Grey [not present]. Would WW allow 'the young Bunsen of Holstein Schleswich any exemption from rules respecting College lectures, - and in what character he might be admitted'.

Encloses a list of his father-in-law William Hodge Mill's collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, of which John Bentley was the 'original founder'.

Thanks Whewell for the offer of £50 for the remains of his father-in-law William Hodge Mill's collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, mostly on astronomical subjects.

Offering the remains of his father-in-law William Hodge Mill's collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, mostly on astronomical subjects, to Trinity.

Letter to William Henry Smyth dated 16 Feb. 1834 asks for barometrical observations on behalf of Professor [Miller?] of Cambridge, is looking for the mean height of the barometer in different latitudes; Mr and Mrs Airy have fever and [Adam] Sedgwick has dislocated his arm; is building lecture rooms with a ventilator which would enable Mrs Smyth and her friends to listen to lectures. This letter accompanied by two notes in an unidentified hand.
A letter to R. C. Trench is dated 2 Mar. 1852 and asks questions arising upon reading his Study of Words.
There are two letters to William Hodge Mill, dated 1842 and 1844. In the earlier letter he asks Mill to serve as examiner for the Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship, and asks his opinion of the effect of the Corn law on the value of tithe rent charges. The later letter sends a passage he has read in the Life of Hegel which he thinks will amuse him.
The letter to Benjamin Webb is dated 18 Dec. 1857 and refers to Webb's offer of a collection of MSS related to William Hodge Mill, and states that the seniority has approved the sum of £50 for the MSS.
The letter to Lady Lubbock is dated 8 Mar. 1864 and accepts an invitation to visit High Elms; is expecting a visit from Amelia and Maria Herschel with their brother Willie.
Accompanied by a modern transcript of a letter from Whewell to B. H. Smart dated 8 May 1969 [1849?] thanking him for a copy of his Manual of Logic.

Trinity College - Alfred Ollivant has been elected the new Regius Professor of Divinity - 'rather of the evangelical cast'. WW voted for William Hodge Mill [see WW to RJ, 10 January 1843] .

Trinity Lodge - Alfred Ollivant has become a candidate for Thomas Turton's vacated chair (Regius Professor of Divinity): 'Tell me what you know of him in Wales or elsewhere. His coming forwards was a move of some of the electors who suspected C. Wordsworth [Christopher Wordsworth, junior], as well as Mill [William Hodge Mill], of Tractarian propensities, and did not like the other candidates for various reasons [see WW to RJ, 9 October 1842]. It is a curious proof how strong the Cambridge antipathy to that school is. I am only sorry for it in so far as if it dispel C. Wordsworth it will much grieve my benefactor his father'.

Trinity Lodge - Trinity Lodge has no windows, walls or roof [due to restoration works]. So far Christopher Wordsworth (junior) and Mill [William Hodge Mill] are candidates for Thomas Turton's vacated office of Regius Professor of Divinity.

Herstmonceux - JCH is very pleased with the appointment of Alfred Ollivant as the Bishop of Llandaff - 'a most conscientious appointment it seems to me, on the part of Lord John [Russell]'. JCH's 'first wish was that Trench [Richard C. Trench] shd succeed him in the Professorship [of Theology]; for Maurice [John F. D. Maurice] seemed to me out of the question. However, after talking over the matter with Esther [Hare] in the morning, I was brought to wish that I might myself be allowed to take part in helping to work out the new system in my beloved University. At the last election it seemed to me that I had no right to come forward in opposition to a man so far superior to me in theological learning as Mill [William Hodge Mill]'. However, although JCH knows 'that in many things his claims are higher, I shd not shrink from opposing him. For I cannot think that his doctrinal views are those which are the most likely to promote the cause of Christian truth in our days'. JCH's 'own views have become much firmer of late years, and I have a securer knowledge of the foundations on which my doctrines rest. The many testimonials of gratitude & affection which I have received from students of Divinity at Cambridge encourage me to think that, if I were living amongst them & opening my heart & mind to them, I might render them service in helping them to steer among the quicksands by which theological speculation in these days is best. And it might be of some use to shew them that one may admit and recognise whatever is true and valuable in German theology, and yet retain a strong conviction of all the positive truths of the Gospel. Many signs show that this is one of the main perils of our days; & we cannot escape it by turning away from it. We must face it dauntlessly & overcome it'. Obviously JCH will not stand for the theological chair if WW is considering it. Would it be possible for JCH to take a B.D degree, or a D.D. in time to be qualified for becoming a candidate?'. Could he take the Professorship with his current living?