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Copy of the letter dated 26 Dec. 1834 concerns his tour of German architecture and carries a note from Rickman to Whewell at the end dated 5 Jan. 1835. The letter dated 6 May 1835 concerns his architectural tour of the Continent.

University Club - WW is waiting for Rickman [Thomas Rickman] and then embarking on an architectural tour of Normandy.

What success has WW had at Cambridge respecting the subscription for Thomas Rickman's monument?

WT sends WW three possible designs for Thomas Rickman's monument. The committee are unanimous in selecting number two.

Details concerning the inscription for the proposed Thomas Rickman monument.

Birmingham - Thomas Rickman has died.

Trinity College - WW recollects RJ agreeing with WW 'that Rickman [Thomas Rickman] was the man of genius among the modern writers on architecture'. Will RJ subscribe to a monument in his honour.

London - John Herschel was late in writing because he was hoping to meet WW and RJ in person. WW just caught him 'as he was going to see Davy [Humphry Davy] make some experiments on galvanism which are odd enough'. WW picked up a copy of Rickman [Thomas Rickman, 'An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation', 1817] for RJ from Taylor's architectural library in Holborn: 'I think you will find it worth cramming - and for the furtherance of your future theory of the origin of pointed architecture I picked up some views of Peterborough which I found and which will show your favourite Basilica on a large scale'.