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JMH's [Trinity College, Assistant Tutor] criticism of WW's work [possibly his Mechanical Euclid, 1837]: 'Your manner of treating of geometry I think admirable, but your self-evident mechanics stagger me as yet I confess'. JMH thinks that it would help WW's argument if he showed that by purely he did not mean syllogistically only: 'We rest upon the idea of space for many new necessary conclusions long after we have settled the axioms'. He cannot admit the equation of a lever as axiomatic. Similarly, 'everybody knows practically that all bodies have a centre of gravity; but not axiomatically'.

Metropolitan Improvement Office - will be happy to circulate Blakesley's book, Bishop of Ely has written to say that he has no vacant livings, saw John Heath at the Athenaeum, Vice-Master continuing to take pupils, Bishop Thirlwall in bodily fear of Rebecca, Carlyle going to visit him, expects disturbances in Staffordshire, madness of the Bishop of Bath and Wells

Tincheley, Ireland - Lord Strafford's possessions in Ireland, evil of subletting farms in Ireland, labourers better off than occupiers of smallholdings, attempts of Lord Strafford to discourage sub-letting, merely relieving distress is no cure, state of the church in his parish (Shillelagh)

Trinity College - Mansfield, Atkinson and Cotton made Fellows, John Heath bitten by Newmanism, month's stay ay Bonn, Hegelist method of teaching languages, John Mill's article on Bentham, character of Mill, Sterling's departure for Italy, Benedick's marriage, letter from Spedding

Includes letters by J. O. Halliwell, J. M. Heath about the August 1846 storm in Cambridge, H. Montagu Butler about a bust of Archdeacon Hare, Vernon Musgrave about a memorial to Archbishop Musgrave, with a draft from William Whewell to Vernon Musgrave.