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A note at the bottom of the third page directs the reader to 'See at end of letter of Dec. '42' [pasted in above this one] for the conclusion of this letter.

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below this letter: 'Copy of letters of Macaulay to his American friend Everett. 1842 and 1854' [the months, 'Dec' and 'May', are written beneath the years].

Note at the bottom of this letter: 'NB. This is the earliest letter or note of any kind which I find in my father's papers'.

'Close of letter of May 30 1854' is also given: 'let us occasionally, as you propose, exchange a few lines. God bless you. Ever yours affectionately, T. B. Macaulay'. This letter is pasted in below.

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below this letter and another on the same page: 'Copy of letters of Macaulay to his American friend Everett. 1842 and 1854' [the months, 'Dec' and 'May', are written beneath the years].

Note in pencil at the top of the letter: 'Dear Sir, There is no Intelligence on Public Affairs in this letter, but I have thought, as you had seen another from the same source, I would send it'.

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'Copies of two letters of Macaulay to his American friend Everett, 1849'.

2 Brook Street - HH has read 'with entire acquiescence the volume on University Education you have been good enough to send me' [Of a Liberal Education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge, 1845]. HH agrees with all of the book: 'About the preference to be given to geometry as an education of the mind I can entertain no doubt whatsoever'. However, he thinks more should have been said on experimental philosophy as a pedagogical tool. WW has 'rightly commented on Lyell [Travels in North America, 2 vols., 1845]. It was neither natural nor national to insert in a book upon America, the remarks you have so justly considered'. HH stayed with their good friend Everett [Edward Everett] while he was in the USA, who is currently debating whether to accept the place of President of the Harvard College at Cambridge - 'I trust he may decide in the affirmative'.

Turks Islands. - Seeks recommendation for President Inglis' vacant office; personal service to this Colony has been publicly acknowledged. Rapid rise of Sir Charles MacCarthy, whose brother Felix is travelling to Europe to obtain promotion. Edward Everett's nomination as American Vice-President: 'He possesses almost too much ability for the office - for, strange to say, men of medium talents are preferred for the Executive chair in that great Republic'.

Albany - DDB agrees to aid EE in supplying information to WW on education in the city of New York: common schools have no direct or systematic religious teaching - they have no sect whose tenets are recognised by law. He has read WW's book on Morality [The Elements of Morality Including Polity, 2 vols., 1845] with 'infinite satisfaction' and does not 'doubt that it is doing great good in this country': DDB has been lecturing on WW's views 'in regard to Polity, and the relation of the state to moral culture and progress. I want our people to learn that there is something more in the state than has originated in their wisdom or been created by their power'. WW is clearly aware that his idea of education and the relations of church and state would not fit the US: 'the religious education of the people is pretty successfully cared for with us, though the state has so little to do with the matter directly'.