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5 Tavistock Terrace, Upper Holloway. - Is 'the most unfortunate author in... literary history'; Milnes must sympathise on reading enclosed statement; also encloses note from Rev. John P. Wilson. Is humiliated by having to seek aid in this way despite endorsement of a bishop. Postscript: last Saturday's Oxford Herald contains appeal by the Fellows of Magdalen; appends list of donors.

'Extraordinary Statement addressed to the patrons of Literature in behalf of a well-known historian', containing copies of letters from the bishops of St. David's, London and Llandaff, Lords Ashley and Brougham, the Earls of Clarendon and Haddington, Lord Francis Egerton and Hugh James Rose, Mar.-Jun. 1841, as well as critical opinions on Dunham's writings. Printed, 2 ff. [1842?]

Letter from John Posthumous Wilson to Dunham, 17 Apr. 1842, Magdalen College, Oxford. Sends £4; he and Mr Faber will advertise case in the Oxford Herald. 2 ff.

RJ does 'heartily agree with you as to Aristotle - to whom it is childish to do scant or reluctant justice - but still it is nonetheless true that he was himself fascinated and misled by the demonstrating powers of his syllogistic art, and while wielding it or scratching at general propositions which were to enable him to wield his brilliant weapon he forgot sometimes what his precepts and example had done to shew and promote the true work of investigation. That his followers quite forgot what his mightier mind occasionally overlooked is not so wonderful but really Copleston [Edward Copleston] and Whately [Richard Whately] are a little too bold - having themselves the first of their caste come to perceive the true scope and limits of the deductive art, they set about abusing in good set terms all who had overrated its pretensions - as if that overrating did not begin or end with logicians and especially Oxford itself'. RJ believes that he has 'traced induction from the works of the logicians into the mind of Bacon - very successfully I think'. Although he finds some confusion in the way Bacon uses induction.

Oriel College - EH hopes he can take up WW's invitation to stay when he goes on a business trip to Essex on the 11th February. He has been so busy that he has not got far with WW's Cambridge Studies [Of a Liberal education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge, 1845]: 'What I have read, however, has uniformly appeared to my mind correct. And I hope your opinion may become known here as well as at Cambridge; for there has been some tendency here also to go on too rapidly into 'Progressive studies' and to give up Geometry for Analytics. - Some of your subjects came into controversy here about 30 years ago, and you would find some excellent remarks in Copleston's [Edward Copleston] Reply to the Edinburgh Review...and in an article by Davison [John Davison?] on Edgeworth's Professional Education in the Quarterly Review for October 1811'. The only point of WW's book EH thinks questionable is his use of the word 'Reason'.

Offwell nr Honiton. - R. P. Llewelyn's debts arose from him living beyond his means as a schoolmaster and curate in Sussex; he has talents but his habit of writing begging letters is disreputable; Copleston has forbidden him to use his name; this and perhaps most of the other letters were written by his wife, perhaps without his knowledge; Llewelyn has already received several sums of money but his distress is real.

Part of a collection gathered by Cordelia Whewell. See also items in this box: 26-125, and 273-323.

Franks of:

• Hon. Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham
• Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich
• Christopher Bethell, Bishop of Gloucester, later Bangor
• Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of Chester, later London
• Thomas Burgess, Bishop of Salisbury
• Robert James Carr, Bishop of Chichester
• Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff
• Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York
• William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Banks Jenkinson, Bishop of St David's
• John Kaye, Bishop of Bristol, later Lincoln
• Charles Thomas Longley, Bishop of Ripon
• John Lonsdale, Bishop of Lichfield
• John Luxmoore, Bishop of St Asaph
• Spencer Madan, Bishop of Peterborough
• Edward Maltby, Bishop of Chichester, later Durham
• Herbert Marsh, Bishop of Peterborough

New glebe house for the living of St Woolos, condemns many of the provisions of the Church Discipline Bill

At the meeting of the King's College council all appointed RJ for the post of Professor of Political Economy, except Edward Copleston, 'who opposed stating that there was philosophy in my book which was not Oxford philosophy or to that effect not that he had read it but was told so'. The matter has been left for future consideration.