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Lord Francis Jeffrey is expecting a copy of WW's paper ['On the Fundamental Antithesis of Philosophy', Trans. of the Cambridge Phil. Soc., 1844] - 'you had better send one'. Charles Babbage would also like one Edward Ryan says. 'Ld. J. has been reading my copy and scribbling on it but he has been so seriously ill with the influenza that I have not had any talk with him about it '. John S. Mill 'has been publishing a paper to prove that a priori reasoning is not only good in Pol. Eco. but the only reasoning applicable to it. God help him and those this belief leads to trust in him[,] his Papa and his school'. Charlotte Jones is still an invalid and RJ is worried that her symptoms are precisely those which preceded the fatal illness of her sister.

Mrs Booth sends enclosed proofs of Lord Melbourne’s intended payment [to David Booth]; Peel believed he was matching the figure as Mr Booth’s son only asked for £50. Quotes Mrs Booth on interest of Milnes and his father in her husband’s work. The Booths are penniless.

Requests return of enclosed document: letter from Francis, Lord Jeffrey [written in 3rd person] to Mr Place, 8 Hinde Street. - encloses Lord Melbourne’s answer to Memorial of David Booth; more funds may be needed in future [2 ff.]

Richmond. - Acknowledges receipt of Ellis's letter of the 21st; thinks it 'better to obviate any further discussion' by stating he cannot accept the proposal which Sir Charles Trevelyan authorised Ellis to make to him. Asks Ellis to inform Mr [George] Trevelyan that he has 'no objection' to his printing Lord Jeffrey's letter of 2 May 1837.

Encloses a printed Introduction containing a letter from Lord Jeffrey about Sydney Smith's book Elementary sketches of moral philosophy.

Tithe Commission - Ollivant [Alfred Ollivant?] is at present vicar of the parish which RJ's 'illustrious race came from in Montgomeryshire & I have seen something of him - not any like enough to form any opinion however of his talents or temper'. RJ enjoyed his stay in Edinburgh 'with Lord Jeffery for a commentator on all "people and things"'.

E[ast] I[ndia] C[ollege]. - Lord Jeffrey should keep his word to MIlnes; negotiating for an article on modern English poetry.

Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Have had, through Aunt Anna [Philips], a 'very bright and pleasant account of Julian' from Henry Grey, who with his wife gave him dinner; reminded him of when he used to go to Haileybury College from Mr Seawell's for a weekend to be entertained by the Empsons - [Lord] Jeffrey's son-in-law and daughter - and the 'other famous professors' because of the 'India fame' of his uncle and father. Also reminded him of a 'much cleverer little boy' [Macaulay] who went to Queen's College, Cambridge, to be entertained by the 'great President [Isaac] Milner'. They are 'rather in the dumps' about the weather; having been forced by the Government to plough up almost thirty acres of old pasture and plant it with corn, the winter has 'caught' it despite Clarke and Nixon's 'energy and judgment' and he does not like to think about the loss he has made; others however had made greater sacrifices. They have been detained at Wallington for at least another fortnight because of the influenza 'raging at Stratford and Snitterfield'. Has just read the fine speech of Demosthenes about the Chersonnese; finds him much harder than Plato, Herodotus, Xenophon and Thucydides. Caroline sends her love; she has been very busy over the Cambo Sale for Northumbrian prisoners of war, which has raised a sum of one hundred and forty seven pounds; her own sketches fetched twelve pounds.