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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.

AS is not feeling well: his ears are hurting and his eyes are dribbling a 'compound made up of salt and brimstone, while my nose is running like a church spout in a thunder storm! As for my voice I have none, and my brain is melting'. He therefore thinks there is little chance in him accepting Kate's [Kate Malcolm] kind invitation: 'I have been speaking of Kate, as if she were still that little happy thing she once was at Hyde Hall...So I must no longer speak of Chrysalis Kate'.

Accompanied by a list by Isaac Todhunter, of dated poems in Latin and English. One poem written "To Miss Kate Malcolm on her Birth-Day" Oct. 31, 1826, and another poem written on the verso of a letter from Sir William Cunningham Dalyell dated 4 May 1843. Includes some early poems, possibly written as school exercises.

84 Sloane Street - Enclosing a copy of a letter from WW to Kate Malcolm, no date. On verso of that letter is a list of letters sent by Miss Malcolm.