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Letters from Sir Herbert Jenner-Fust, Prof. Henslow, Lord Morpeth, the Bishop of Melbourne, Lieut. General Thackeray, the Marquess Camden, and an unidentified person.

Letter in a clerk's hand, signed by Scholefield, Minister of St Michael's; George Langshaw, Vicar of St Andrew the Great; George Spence, Vicar of St Clements, Henry Hutchinson Swinny, Vicar of St Giles & St Peters; Charles Perry, Minister of St Botolph's; Thomas Boodle, Minister of St Andrew the Less; Frederick Hose, Curate of Trinity Parish; [Capham?] Barry, Minister of St Edward; John Lane, Curate of St Andrew the Less & George Coulcher, Curate of St Benedict.

Perry [Charles Perry] has observed 'with great pain and grief the destitute state of Barnwell as to religious instruction; but with more courage and heart than others, he has set about trying to remedy it'. He wants to build a church: 'I think the spirit in which he has set about his task, as well as the object itself will induce you to do for him what you can'. WW is 'especially puzzled about my title - 'A History of the Inductive Sciences' - that is too indefinite. 'A History of the Inductive Sciences' - that implies 'all the' and is too presumptuous - 'A History of the Principal Inductive Sciences' - that is too narrow for though I do not wish to say so I have taken all which are, properly speaking, at present Inductive Sciences. I am mightily embarrassed with this dilemma'. Scholefield [James Scholefield] has vacated the Greek professorship and WW expects Connop Thirlwall to be a candidate.