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44 Charlotte St., Portland Pl. - TH would like WW to help him get his discovery concerning the nervous circulation published: 'It is not that I fear to discover any knowledge, but I wish to avoid the charges which were brought against Harvey'. TH is fairly deaf to external sound 'but the pulsations of my heart break upon my ears like waves falling over'. While TH was composing his 'epic' he heard ticking in his head at a ratio of one to four with his heart beat. He believes this is caused by the circulation in the nerves - only when those nerves have been wrought to the highest tension do I hear the ticking'. He supplies WW with extracts from his negative exchanges with both Richard Owen and William Buckland.

One page letter with a list of items at 28 Bedford Square, 14th September on verso.

44 Charlotte St., Portland Pl. - TH gives WW a work to deposit in the Wren Library. His paper was declined by the Physiological Section of the BAAS.

Sharpham Park, Glastonbury - Thanks WW for his communication and is flattered that he liked his article 'The Sea Dragons' [see EH to WW, 3 Sept. 1840].

Sharpham Park, Glastonbury - TH 'cannot adequately express the deep sense I entertain of this obligation [a memorial WW signed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer which was subsequently published in the Times], but flatter myself that my last work on the fossil saurians [an order of reptile - "The Great Sea-Dragons"] in the collection which you so assisted to deposit in the British Museum may be not unacceptable to you'.