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Royal Observatory Greenwich - Can WW procure for GA from one of the libraries Horsley's [John Horsley] 'Britannia Romana'. Wilfred [Wilfred Airy] 'has made an awful mess of his examination...and must I conceive be set down to physical derangement, cerebral and nervous'.

Flamsteed House, Greenwich - Has any application been made by the Observatory Syndicate for any portion of the proceeds of the Sheepshanks Fund? [For background see GA to WW, 30 Sept. 1856]. WW should keep GA informed of his eclipse plans since there is a heavy duty to pay at the Spanish border on instruments. GA will try to find a solution: 'What is likely to be your geographical course?' Wilfred Airy is about 'to learn the management of iron malleable and weldable' in the smithery, 'and of the men who inflict those operations upon the metal'.

Greenwich - Thanks WW for 'writing yourself to give us the intelligence about our boy which has been very delightful to us. His success was perfectly unexpected by us' [Wilfred Airy gaining a Trinity Scholarship].