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Letters dated 25 Jan. 1842, 26 Apr. 1843, 30 Apr. 1844, 26 Jan. 1850, 17 Feb. 1857, and 28 May 1857.

Tithe Commmission - Thanks WW for his account of the election: 'I am glad you were able to vote for Mill without injuring Wordsworth [Christopher Wordsworth junior]'. RJ is 'puzzled for some measure of the addition of human power made by tools[,] machinery etc. independently of any moving force besides the human frame. Dupin [Charles Dupin] and others confine themselves in comparing the relative productive powers of nations to a comparison of moving forces as wind['] steam[,] horses etc'. However 'give one man a spade[,] hoe and pickaxe leave another without them - what a difference between a population well supplied throughout with the best implements and machinery and a population ill supplied though their motive force be assumed the same. Take a cotton mill and a 80 horse power steam engine - but then look inside the mill and see the mechanical contrivances - do not they add also to the productive power of the population - why do I scribble all this why I want to ask you if you think Willis [Robert Willis] would give any thought to the subject if I wrote a short paper on it and sent it to him'. 'In estimating the progress and present state of industry throughout the world it is of essential importance and has been overlooked'.

Calumny of J H Monk in the 'Edinburgh Review', suggests Thomas Thorp or Christopher Wordsworth might throw light on the matter

Wordsworths knowledge of J H Mank's works

Harrow - CW sends WW a copy of observations on the Statute of Election to the Regius Professorship of Divinity.

Harrow - CW announcing that he intends to be a candidate for the Professorship of Divinity.

on the offer of the Deanery of Peterborough: Gayton

Buxted, Uckfield - CW canvassing on behalf of his son who intends to offer himself as a candidate for the imminent vacancy of the Regius Professorship of Divinity.

Gayton. Birth of CW's daughter, vacancy for the headship of Rugby

Boulogne. Butler is ineligible to be a Governor of Harrow, suggests his brother-in-law [ ] Gray, preparations for High Mass to be celebrated by the Cardinal Archbishop of Arras

Written from Harrow.

Gayton. Wishes to see the lower school revived, problems with Joseph Pope who encouraged boys to get into debt, fagging

Gayton. Congratulates Wordsworth on the examinations of the Harrow boys, relationship between the headmaster and the under-master at Harrow, when Evans was elected under-master to Butler he undermined his authority

CW's letter concerning Oxenham is a comfort: Gayton

Gayton. Butler has written to Oxenham, Wordsworth's demotion of him means that he will lose even more authority, election of Lord Lyndhurst as Chancellor of Cambridge

Gayton. Congratulates Wordsworth on reinstating his authority over Henry Drury, in GB's time as headmaster Evans tried to establish a separate jurisdiction as Under Master, Oxenham's degradation, Mr Evans had been very inefficient but it would not have occurred to GB to supplant him with Drury

Gayton. Is unable to contribute to the scheme to rebuild the Master's House at Harrow, enquires about the transfer of a lease

Gayton. Arrangements for the lease of Hawkins' house, George Butler's poor performance at Cambridge.

Gayton. Purchase by Wordsworth of Butler's interest in Mr Bowen's house, hopes that George Butler jun has acquitted himself well in the Bell Scholarship

Gayton. Butler thanks Wordsworth for interceding on George Butler junior's behalf, arrangements for the lease of the Headmaster's kitchen garden

Gayton. Echo in the new chapel at Harrow, hopes 5th November caused no annoyance, hopes Wordsworth will continue as his receiver of rents [of properties in Harrow].

state of the house let by CW, list of repairs required: Gayton

241: enclosing 1832 verse by Richard Monckton Milnes.

Trinity Lodge - Alfred Ollivant has become a candidate for Thomas Turton's vacated chair (Regius Professor of Divinity): 'Tell me what you know of him in Wales or elsewhere. His coming forwards was a move of some of the electors who suspected C. Wordsworth [Christopher Wordsworth, junior], as well as Mill [William Hodge Mill], of Tractarian propensities, and did not like the other candidates for various reasons [see WW to RJ, 9 October 1842]. It is a curious proof how strong the Cambridge antipathy to that school is. I am only sorry for it in so far as if it dispel C. Wordsworth it will much grieve my benefactor his father'.

WW wants advice over the candidates for Thomas Turton's vacated chair (Regius Professor of Divinity): 'which is as you know one of our best University appointments, being about 800 pounds a year, and one of great influence'. The candidates are Mill [William Hodge Mill], Christopher Wordsworth (junior), Dr Lee [Samuel Lee?] - the Hebrew Professor and WW thinks Graham [John Graham?]. Mill is 'somewhat too near the Tractarians in his opinions'. Wordsworth is well aquainted with the Fathers 'and draws from them consequences very different from the Oxford men'. There is an expectation that WW should be a candidate: 'It would give me a power of trying to introduce improvements into the University, but I think it would not fall in with my schemes of building up moral philosophy. My philosophy grows under my hand, and grows into a form in which I think the world will not reject it. I must add that I believe I should be elected if I were to offer myself'.

Trinity Lodge - Trinity Lodge has no windows, walls or roof [due to restoration works]. So far Christopher Wordsworth (junior) and Mill [William Hodge Mill] are candidates for Thomas Turton's vacated office of Regius Professor of Divinity.