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Edinburgh - JDF hopes WW will travel another half a day and stay with him. He is currently lecturing three days a week. JDF is 'not at all indisposed to several of the proposed improvements' to Edinburgh University: 'But of course I am annoyed by the absurdities and misrepresentations of our eccentric (though not unamiable) professor of Greek. With Sir John McNeill's pamphlet I thoroughly agree. And not least in his denunciation of the competitive examination system for the civil service'.

Weem Hotel, Aberfeldy. - His friend William Rathbone, MP for Liverpool, has had his name on the list for the Athenaeum for about ten years. Hears that 'it is contemplated to admit a large number of members without a ballot', and hopes that Rathbone's 'very eminent services in the cause of the suffering Poor and his very liberal & unostentatious benefactions may have sufficient weight with the Committee'.