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Plymouth - Blakesley's decision to go into the church, Barnes has set up a school, visit of Coleridge and Macaulay, death of [?] Arthur from a wound received in a duel

Written at Eton College. With cover sheet by Constance Babington Smith.

Incomplete: central section and end missing, perhaps deliberately removed.

London. - Was about to write to Mary 'begging for her influence to bring [Parker] to Cambridge', when Parker's letter arrived. Portion of letter missing. Asks Parker to 'Give our love to Mary - and our congratulations [on James and Mary's forthcoming wedding] again and again'. He can tell her 'Our precious relative Samuel [Herrick?] Macaulay... has just arrived - and his arrival has made us feel more grateful to her. No man ought to be more obliged to those who bring good kinsmen into his family - for I believe no man has such a number of rascally cousins as I have - '.

End, and so signature, missing.

Leigham - four pupils at his new school, fees, Derwent Coleridge in Plymouth, Samuel Macaulay to become rector of Hodort, Barnes' curacy to end soon, only 40 or 50 adults in his congregation