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Haileybury - The Principal of Haileybury College, Charles Webb Le Bas has resigned: 'I am more pained than I could have anticipated at seeing him thus driven from his home and office'. His 'probable successor cannot be looked forward to very cheerfully'. If Jeremie [James Amiraux Jeremie] 'could have served under Le Bas quietly and cordially - the place would have dropt into his mouth in a year or two - as it is no one dreams of him here as in London and he knows it' - he is 'wholly unconscious of what he has done to others - almost insanely so'. RJ's coachman has committed suicide - 'the whole household has been in gloom'.

If James Amiraux Jeremie 'should be elected [Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge] he will keep himself out of controversy if he can and will conduct it temperately and ably if he is driven to it'. Jeremie's 'general acuteness and ability are undoubtedly great and would stand him in stead but again you have seen something of him in this capacity and would rather you judged for yourself'.

If Blakesley [Joseph W. Blakesley] has no chance RJ hopes [F. W.?] Clark will succeed [presumably for James Amiraux Jeremie's replacement at Haileybury] . However there are a number of formidable Oxonians in the field with a good chance. RJ has 'no doubt Jeremie will get through all his public duties well[,] as for private feuds he may get into some but they will at Cambridge among no one but himself - he means as to these to mean to try to be a good boy I am sure' [Jeremie has been appointed as the new Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge]. The Government has seen an abstract of the Tithe Commission Report before it was made and have pledged themselves to it.

Jeremie [James Amiraux Jeremie] and Heavyside [James W. L. Heaviside] lecture on Tuesday. RJ thinks it advisable that Jeremie gets WW's letter as soon as possible in order to rearrange the lectures to accommodate the change [Jeremie's election as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge].

RJ did 'Jeremie [James Amiraux Jeremie] an unconscious injustice which in common fairness I should rectify - you asked me what he had done to exhibit himself as a divine and I really had no proofs to produce [.] It seems however that in some able articles in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana he has written a history of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries of the church'. All his articles have been praised by high authorities [Jeremie is a candidate for the Regius professorship at Cambridge]. RJ sends WW his examination papers in history [no longer attached].