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JH has asked someone [page torn] to review the book [Literary Remains, Consisting of Lectures and Tracts on Political Economy, of the late Rev Richard Jones, 1859] in the Edinburgh Review. He has also had a copy sent to Sir James Stephen - although JH has heard that Stephen has been involved in an accident while 'on one of his walks'. Further, Stephen wants nothing more to do with the Edinburgh, while of the book he writes: ''I have read a considerable part of it and the result is to convince me that he [Richard Jones] was a vigorous and original thinker, but an indifferent writer, one of those men whose real function or fate it is, to bring together the raw material for better Artists to work up into popular books. John Mill, has, I think, largely used him for this purpose''. JH concludes from this that Stephen would not be averse to a review and that it would be sufficiently favourable. He would also introduce some remarks about the Indian Civil Service. JH gives information concerning notices for the book.

Letters dated from 19 Oct. [1858] - 6 Nov. 1858.

Letters dated 26 Oct. 1872 - 28 Nov. 1874. Letter of 5 Dec. 1873 with a letter to Thompson from J. W. L. Heaviside, 24 Nov. [1873] (Item 261a) and a letter to Thompson from Alexander Thurtell dated 24 Nov. 1873 (Item 261b). Letter of 27 Aug. 1870 describes the contents of a secret drawer in a large sideboard in the Lodge drawing room as accidentally found by a maid.

East India College, Hertford - They have a 'candidate for matrimony, and a Professorship' [of Mathematics] called Heaviside [James W. L. Heaviside]: and since they know nothing about him, 'we are naturally anxious to ascertain...what manner of a person he is. We are told that he is 'voiced most regardfully ' among you, as a consummate master of the integral and differential mysteries. We are, moreover, assured that he is a good social fellow, and a man of the world'. The patrons and Masters of the College are seeking a new constitution, but Le Bas has no idea why they want a Dean.