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Further to the death of Lady Campbell [see WW to JCH, 14 Feb. 1841]: 'Lady Malcolm has been overwhelmed; but was beginning to rise from her bed when I was in town a week ago'. WW has decided not to become a country clergyman in Masham: 'I still have something to do in the University'. WW thinks he now sees his way 'with tolerable clearness to the construction of my system of Morality'.

Lady Campbell (Olympia Malcolm's sister) has died: 'Lady M. [Malcolm] was at first overwhelmed with agony'.

Trinity College - WW has not gone abroad and after 'dawdling' in various places he finds himself back at Trinity. He went to London and applied for a passport but with no definite plans to go abroad. He met Lady Malcolm and followed her back to Hyde Hall. He hopes to go back there: 'They talk of quitting the house in a week or so not to return - and I cannot but wish to take a conscious farewell of a place where I have been so nearly happy. - It is no one or two causes only that make me delight so much in being there, for I believe if one had nothing to do but to look at Kate [Kate Malcolm] it would be sufficient to make it a grateful state of feeling'. He gives RJ a recipe for horse radish sauce.

Trinity College - WW was to travel to the Rhine and on towards Switzerland with Lady Malcolm and Julius Hare but 'this beautiful scheme is now I think likely to fall through'. WW will try to go towards Bonn.

Trinity College - WW has sent RJ various travel books which he hopes will answer his ends. 'Lady M. [Lady Malcolm] is ill and unsettled but I think getting better and M.M. is speculating in conjunction with the guesser at truth [Julius Hare], who has been for some time with them and is almost domesticated in the family. I expect him here today or tomorrow as he is to spend the summer here in translating Niebuhr's [Barthold Georg Niebuhr] Roman history'.

Trinity College - Lady Malcolm has been ill for some time now and will have to forget about going to India. WW hopes to get abroad. RJ should try and get a copy of John Herschel's address to the Astronomical Society - 'it is very eloquent and spirited - I understand he talks of going to Madeira'.

WW would have willingly stayed in London 'a couple of days longer, even in the heat of July, Pall Mall, and politics, if I had known that there was a prospect of seeing any of them' [Lady Malcolm and family]. WW is to go northwards with the hope of seeing William Wordsworth, hills, lakes and locks. Has JCH heard anything of Thirlwall?: 'I wish often that you were here again, for in spite of the absence of all ill will, on all sides, I feel as if there might be some difficulty in moving the footing in which we formerly were; and many of our friends are now so engaged in politics, and so far thrown off their balance by controversy' that he can no longer depend upon them.

WW is meeting two Frenchmen tomorrow one of whom JCH would probably like. His name is Rio and he is a friend of the Malcolms who are enchanted by him. He is a philosopher of the school of [Bunald?], an intimate friend of de Maistre and of Schelling. WW is amused by the reason for his trip to England: 'he holds that the Celts are the only sound part of the French population - the only part which has any religion or any social vitality. From the French Celts the regeneration of France must come if it come at all. But the French Celts are poor, and have been oppressed, and have let some of their Celtic spirit and culture slip away from them. This is to be restored by a reinfusion of Celtic poetry and history. So M. Rio is come to cultivate the Welsh'. Connop Thirlwall's 'lectures are admirable and the men take to them with great earnestness'.

The Rev. G. Kent wants John Brown to give him a reference for a position at a public school in Truro. WW has supplied the relevant information to Brown except Kent's address (enclosed). Can JCH get from Mr Edward a 'cutting of myself' - WW needs one to send to his sister [Ann Whewell]. He would also like one of Adam Sedgwick to send to Lady Malcolm. WW and Lady Malcolm parted yesterday: 'I can by no means persuade myself that she and I parted yesterday for years'. He did not get to see the children but he did see a 'representation of them' by Mrs Robinson - 'I was not satisfied'.

Details concerning Lady Malcolm's continental tour. Could JCH forward WW's mail.

WW and Lady Malcolm will see JCH at Chesterford tomorrow. Lady Malcolm intends to breakfast the following day at Cambidge.

WW is still in England: 'My aspirations after the Rhine and Germany are not strong enough to set me going by myself'. Lady Malcolm came to town on Monday. She will be at Hyde Hall and probably send for JCH to help her catalogue the library.

JCH's letter was a great comfort since WW was very concerned about Lady Malcolm. WW was not impressed with his sermon and was glad JCH missed it.

Herstmonceux, Hailsham - JCH spent a delightful evening at Warfield with Lady Campbell, Miss Malcolm and Miss Kate - 'an evening that brought back Hyde Hall and all its happiness'. The next day he went to London and saw Lady Malcolm in the evening: 'It was the first time of seeing her since our loss [the death of Sir John Malcolm?]...Her face was a good deal changed, a good deal oldened. Sorrow and pain had brushed its lustre away'. WW's fears of falling out with Connop Thirlwall will hopefully not be fulfilled [see JCH to WW, 1 June 1834]. JCH liked WW's second pamphlet ['Additional Remarks on Mr Thirlwall', 1834]: 'the main part of your arguments occur to me quite convincing and unanswerable'.

73 South Audley Street - JCH had hoped to hear WW's Commencement Sermon, however he is to accompany Sir John and Lady Malcolm to Portsmouth. Although she is much better she is still very weak and nervous. JCH sends WW a copy of his and Augustus Hares's Guesses [Guesses at Truth, By Two Brothers, 1827].