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Glenhindy, Scotland - Any hopes TT has of 'opening my books' will depend upon him reaching Cambridge, 'and placing myself under the strict surveillance of such friends as Sheepshanks [Richard Sheepshanks] and yourself'. TT 'could not have come to a better place for misspending my time: for all the amusements and occupations of this hardy race lie out of doors'. He has not had any luck with the 'Highland Lasses' and has spent most of his time hunting.

Could WW send TT's letters to the enclosed destination.

News of his Italian travels. If TT should follow his present inclinations 'I should either come and reside amongst you (which I think I shall still do for one year) or come abroad again in the Autumn and wait the first chance of getting into Greece: for that, to tell the truth, is where I would be. But I don't think I should like the Church as a profession'.

In ten days TT has to decide upon his future vocation and whether to accept a lecturing post at Trinity: 'I should confess to you that I should have hardly considered myself a fit person to lecture in Trinity College (tho' good enough perhaps for St. John's and I trust not bad enough for Sidney or Clare), had not the offer been actually made plump to me'. He cannot decide whether he would prefer teaching or practising law at Lincoln's Inn: 'the acceptance of this appointment, will if not necessarily induce the taking orders, and that is a thing to which I have by no means made up my mind'.

TT's deliberations on becoming a candidate for the Lay Fellowship.

TT thanks WW for his letter concerning TT's possible candidacy for the Lay Fellowship [see TT to WW, 12 July 1824]: 'you hit the right nail on the head when you sugeested the possibility of my regretting hereafter the abandoning a professon of so much and so indefinite promise as the Law'. TT officially informs WW of his current sentiment: 'if I were called upon now to decide, would be not to ask the Lay appointment, involving as it does the surrender of my College appointments and my views of peaceful independent life'.

TT would like to read WW's 'exhortation to the University to be held today (if you are returned from France)'.

Signed by Christopher Wordsworth. Thomas Musgrave, William Whewell, Blakesley, Thomas Thorp, George Peacock and others

Trinity College - WW refutes a story concerning Thorp [Thomas Thorp, senior dean and tutor] and WW's 'asserted resignation of the tuition'. The story was now old and had been promoted by 'some of the silliest scandal-mongers we have here, and that my theory of it was that it was one of the usual inventions of the second-year men to make the freshmen stare'. WW has had no time to get statistical recruits [RJ's statistical section at the BAAS]: 'I think I could do so better if I had some printed project, such for instance as your scheme of distribution of subjects which appears to me admirable'.

He will accept a role in considering the University Statutes if his standing of three years will allow him to be appointed, heard nothing of Frank Blomfield's appointment, Thomas Thorp will support JHM's friend's election at the Athenaeum, is proposed for the Traveller's [Club]

Letters from George Bancroft, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the Master of the Temple, the Earl of Devon, the Bishop of Cape Town, Prof. Cumming, the Dean of Canterbury, J. Wray, the Marquis of Exeter, the Duke of St Albans, Dr Paget, Archdeacon Thorp, Sir Robert H. Inglis, and Lord Campbell. The letter from J. Wray of 6 Suffolk Place is accompanied by a letter informing the Master and Fellows of the expected arrival of two of the detective force (item 26)

WW is sorry to hear that HJR is ill. HJR's old pupil, [Charles J.] Goodhart, is a particular favourite with Thomas Thorp. WW did not mean to suggest he had quarrelled with Miller's Bampton Lectures since he has not read them: 'But I suppose I should have asked you what you mean by your school and my school. I do not know that my views and opinions are those of any class of people and they certainly are not those which have often served as a basis for the jokes of our common acquaintances - your school is I presume the Wordsworthian, and I believe that many of the persons whom, I imagine, you would include in it have exceedingly amiable and deeply seated religious & moral views & feelings - but what these have to do with... Coleridge's rant of etymologico-Platonic speculations is what I have never been able to make out'. They have been fighting in Cambridge over the right of election. Adam Sedgwick 'has just printed a pamphlet on the subject which is quite admirable - I cannot send it you but I beg you to believe on my word that we are exceedingly in the right and that the heads in general & French in particular are greatly in the wrong'.

Regarding 'three volumes of [Isaac] Barrow manuscript', which have been offered to James Prince Lee.

Wishes to print a pamphlet defending J H Monk

Written from Trinity College.

Delighted to hear C J Monk appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Bristol

Is glad that CJM is pleased with Rawle's tuition, the Vice-Master suggests that Monk does not accompany him to Cambridge, CJM is promised rooms in College

New Eton men at Trinity, Queen to visit, has entered his name as a Fellow Commoner, Thorp has rooms ready for him

Calumny of J H Monk in the 'Edinburgh Review', suggests Thomas Thorp or Christopher Wordsworth might throw light on the matter

Encourages him to apply himself to his studies, tells him to ask Thomas Thorp for cash whenever it is required

Green leather volume, with embossing and gold decoration. Printed illustration from 'Happy New Year' card pasted to inside front cover. Bookplate, 'Ex Libris Bryan William James Hall', with coat of arms and illustration, pasted to front free endpaper.

Numerous autographs, mostly in the form of ends of letters and addresses on envelopes, pasted into book. Notes beneath items (sometimes also pasted in) often identify writers. Complete letters etc have been described in individual records dependent to this one, referenced by their folio numbers; signatures and addressees are referenced by linked authority record only. Some names remain undeciphered or unidentified.

Compiled by a sister of C. W. King, see part letter from King on f. 14r, 'I enclose the autograph of a distinguished Grecian for your book. With love I am, my dear Sister, yours affect[ionate]ly C. W. King'. Although no first name appears, C. W. King's only sister appears to have been Anne, sometimes known as Annette (1824-1874). A letter from W. G. Clark to C. W. King, preserved on the verso of the flyleaf, was sent with 'some autographs for your friend', and there are also envelopes and letters addressed to William Aldis Wright and other members of Trinity suggesting King was actively gathering material for his sister. The bulk of the collection appears to have been assembled between the late 1860s and early 1870s.

Viva voce for the previous examination the following day, William Thomson beaten to the Senior Wranglership by an unknown Johnian of the name of Parkinson [Stephen Parkinson], Blackburn and Rendall of Trinity good Wranglers, Thorp still vice-master

Has spent the £5 given to him by JSM on the complete works of Plato, on the Histories of Herodotus and on a lexicon of Herodotus, Thomas Thorp staying at Gloucester to examine two men for Deacon's orders, going up to Trinity College in October, to sit the Newcastle Scholarship