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Three letters from E. B. Denison, later known as Edmund Beckett, dated 7 May 1842, 10 Sept. 1869, and 17 Oct. 1869. In the first letter, which is incomplete, he mentions his article about Andrew Jukes in the Churchman, and retells a story he heard from [John] Lonsdale about two Trinity Fellows in the time of Porson, Spencer and [John] Higgs, and rhyming insults they employed against each other. The letter of 10 Sept. mentions the departure of Charles Vaughan from Doncaster, an Airian heresy [Sir George Airy] regarding misleading statements he has made as to the best places to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. He recommends his broker H. E. Tatham & Co.; suggests putting a spoke in the wheel of the lazy Fellows of Trinity, and describes the new Vicar of Doncaster, [Francis] Pigou.