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Trinity College - WW met John and Margaret Herschel in London - 'a great pleasure to me, as it always is; and the unhappiness of parting with him is almost done away with by looking at the views and feelings with which he goes and the temper in which she accompanies him' [their departure to the Cape of Good Hope]. WW would like to talk to RJ about his 'project of resigning the tuition of which I have spoken to you before. My wish to do so grows upon me - the business remains as tiresome as ever'.

London - WW gives his positive opinion of John Herschel's recent bride [Margaret Herschel]. WW was safely elected to the University Club [see WW to RJ, 19 Feb. 1829]. He has 'been putting on paper and reading at the Philosophical Society my mathematico-politico-economics, and I am really rather pleased with the look of my lucubrations. I shall privately have it finished (as one of our papers) and send it to the Economists whom I know by way of challenge. It does not much interfere with your speculations but I know very much that it will bear traces of what I have learnt from you, especially in the boldness with which I doubt the accuracy of the orthodox economists. It is in fact for the most part Thompson's [Thomas Perronet Thompson] book on Rent translated into formula' ['The True Theory of Rent, in Opposition to Mr. Ricardo and Others', 1826]. WW's 'object is to shew the mode of applying mathematics so as to separate difficulties of calculation from difficulties of moral reasoning - to keep apart the business of reasoning up to principles and down from them'. He wants some statements concerned with land, produce and rent: 'I have told you I do not want accuracy but definiteness'.