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Labelled 'Henry Hallam Inscription. | Includes a draft I think in Mr Gladstone's handwriting, also a note from Lord Palmerston.| 1863'

Returns with thanks the 'very good Inscription' [for the memorial to Henry Hallam in St. Paul's Cathedral].

Seventeen letters to his father and his sister Julia.

2 Brook Street - Thanks WW for a copy of his work on English University education: 'The whole argument is strong, or I would say convincing - greatly needed, moreover, at this particular time, where we are surrounded by such novelties in speculation'. For instance HH's 'old acquaintance Hamilton [William Hamilton] (the Ed. Review) who even as a boy of 18 was besotted by the same spirit of vague and verbose speculations, which still governs his understanding'. HH's and WW's mutual friend Hallam [Henry Hallam] has lost his eldest daughter.

Wickham Court, Bromley. - Must write to tell Milnes how much she likes the inscription for the memorial [to her father at St. Paul's Cathedral], a copy of which Mr Murray has sent her: 'No words could express more truly what he really was, or draw out better in relief the whole man. I rejoice that the Inscription was entrusted to you'. Sends regards to Milnes' wife, and adds postscript saying that she hopes he is 'stronger than you were'.

'Hallam Memorial Medal. The Medal executed by Mr L. Wyon from Mr. Theed's statue of Mr. Hallam, by order of the Committee, from the Surplus Funds remaining in my hands, will be ready for distributers to the Subscribers to the HALLAM MEMORIAL, on application to Mr. Murray, 50A, Albemarle Street, on and after October 26th ['1863' added by hand on one copy] by delivering this paper with the Subscriber's signature, in token of receipt. J. P. Boileau, Treasurer'.

Both copies inscribed to Lord Houghton.

Wimpole Street - thanks him for his Life of Aristotle

Wimpole Street - glad to see Cambridge steering a steady course

Wimpole Street - invitation to dinner

Wimpole Street - invitation to dinner to meet Whewell

Loose at the back of the book are four bifolia entitled "Middle Voice", and another smaller bifolium on the same topic.

Hallam describes a couple of problems he has with page 241 of WW's second volume of The Elements of Morality: WW is misleading with one of his expressions and too strong with his argument. 'I do not make any other remark on your book, though there are moral points in what I have got the good fortune to agree with you'. WW takes Paley's word, expediency, in too confined a way.

Loose sheet between pages 84 and 85 on the location of the Scamandrian plain [in Homer's Iliad].

'Ad memoriam | Henrici Hallam | Historici | Qui primus inter rerum Anglicarum scriptores |hanc sibi legem imposuit | ut tanquam judex in tribunali sedens | sine partium studio verum rectumque decerneret. | Patrem optimim, attavis ortum Bostoniensibus | cujus magnum apud omnes nomen ipsa domi et in sina fovet | hoc aere insigniri voluit | Filia'

[To the memory of Henry Hallam, Historian, who first among writers of English matters imposed this law on himself, that as if a judge sitting in court he would - without party spirit, pronounce the true and the right. His daughter wished her excellent father, sprung from Bostonian ancestors, whose great name amongst all she herself cherishes at home and in her breast, to be distinguished with this bronze].

Westminster Palace Hotel, S.W. - Declines invitation for next Sunday. His own Monograph now off his hands; comparison with Houghton's 'healthy charming volume'. Hopes to go to Vienna via South Germany; met Arthur Hallam and his father on the hill from Ischl towards Salzburg nearly forty years ago.

Trinity Lodge - WW has been working on the historical part of his Morality ['The Elements of Morality, Including Polity', 2 vols., 1845]. This has led him to re-read Hallam's [Henry Hallam] books: 'I am glad to find that they have risen much in my estimation on closer inspection; for I like the man. They are, especially the English Constitution ['Constitutional History of England from Henry VII's Accession to the Death of George II', 1827] a series of condensed, able, lawyer like, or rather judge like discussions of all the principal constitutional questions which are history offers, He is an old Whig and at times rather a stern one; but then he is an old Whig not a new Whig; and I see scarcely any points on which we the constitutional Conservatives are called upon to differ with him'. WW compares his 'judicial gravity and fairness' with the 'sophistical advocacy of Macaulay!' [Thomas Babington Macaulay]. WW can appreciate RJ's disgust at 'The Times' and its treatment of the tithe commutation. WW thinks 'something of the same kind should be done for Ireland with regard to the advantages of the union'.

Includes list: '1810 / Unpaid Bills'.