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Letter of introduction for 'Mr Sparks [Jared Sparks], Professor of History in our American Cambridge', who is to visit London and Paris in order to collect material for his forthcoming History of the Revolutionary War. He will probably visit Cambridge where he is friends with Professor William Smyth. GT remembers his trip to Cambridge with great pleasure and wishes to be remembered to Adam Sedgwick.

Thanks WW for a copy of his pamphlet showing that all matter is heavy ['Demonstration that All Matter is Heavy', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 7, 1841]: 'I think, one of the most curious and acute metaphysical discussions for its length, in any language, going one step further, if I mistake not, than Kant did in a similar direction'. He has had the Lyells [Charles Lyell] staying for a fortnight: 'They are most agreeable people and have left a most agreeable impression wherever they have travelled in the country'. GT encloses a copy of the Geological Survey of the State of Massachusetts.

Letter of introduction for GT's friend, George S. Lints, a lawyer and scholar. Thanks WW for his two volumes on a Cambridge education ['Of a Liberal Education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge', 1845 and 'Of a Liberal Education in General...2. Discussions and Changes 1840-1850', 1850]: 'They are particularly welcome at this moment, and will be read by me and by others to whom I shall at once send them, because important discussions are now going on here upon the same subjects'.

Thanks WW for a copy of his translation of the Professor's Wife [Berthold Auerbach, 'The Professor's Wife' translated by WW, 1851].