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(This proof, which is marked at the head, ‘Proof | Nov. 26’, contains Chapter 1 and the first page of Chapter 2. Book VII of this work was published in 1874.)

Cambridge - recovered from illness, [James] Spedding failed [Fellowship examination], College tutors, [Apostles] "grievously thinned", [John] Sterling's son may be apostolic, Spedding taking drawing lessons, [Richard Chenevix] Trench has preached in W. B. Donne's area, death of Arthur Hallam, Tennyson depressed, left some poems with him, George Farish "professes to read law and practices ... the smoking of cigars", Christopher Wordsworth full of modern Greek literature

Writes to tell Sidgwick that, on referring to the London Review, he finds that he had misinformed him about the authorship of the article on Tennyson, and states that it is by J.S. Mill. Mentions that he misses some criticisms 'which existed in the article [John] Sterling did write.' Suggests that this article may be found in Blackwood [it is in fact in the Quarterly Review of September 1842]. States that it is not in the 'Edinbro' [Edinburgh Review], 'but in the LXXXVIIth vol of the blue and yellow [ie the E. R.] there is a very good article by Spedding [on] the two vols. which appeared 1842.' Claims that he should recognise Sterling's 'fine Roman hand' if he saw it, but has no collection of Blackwoods of this kind. Reports that he 'ran down [Saint] Simeon Stylites with his usual vehemence, and rather scoffed at the Ode to Memory, comparing it, unfairly, and of course unfavorably, with Wordsworth's Platonic Ode'.

Rochester. - His son [Robert Wilmot Whiston] is reading for the Bar and seeks pupils or work with Records Commission; would have written to Beresford Hope but he is at Biarritz owing to his wife's serious illness; Spedding's sad end; survived his own cab accident through receiving a copious draught of sherry from 'our "Robert" of the Club'; glad Houghton voted for retention of Candahar [sic: Kandahar, Afghanistan]; enjoying horse riding.

Dresden - Maurice's pamphlet, 39 Articles, "condition of thought", would like to see subscription to the 39 Articles part of the ceremony of commencement of MA, current Bills in Parliament, King made Astronomer Royal, has been abroad for his health, itinerary of European tour, will be returning early due to lack of funds, "not so fortunate as Alfred Tennyson in finding a family of young ladies to empty their full purses into my gaping pockets", has met Tieck, Tieck and Coleridge. Hermann, postscript of Yarrow Revisited, tendency of like to seek out the company of like, conversation the εργον of the upper class, philology

Newcastle upon Tyne - does not know what month it is, does not approve of keeping time, reform, the Law as a profession, keeps chickens

Trinity College - Hopkins unable to take anyone after Easter, heard Irving preach, ministers of the gospel ought to live on donations alone, reply to Macaulay in the Westminster [Gazette]

missed seeing Miss Foote

14 Queen's Street, Westminster - has been idle all summer, has read much of Don Quixote, the Coronation, review of Tennyson by Hallam

14 Queen's Square - will be in Cambridge and would like rooms for a week

14 Queen's Square - death of Edward [Spedding]

Trinity College - Peacock will recommend Blakesley for a curacy, Hollingworth recovered, Blakesley should not have accused him of being a matchmaker, information he gave to Miss Muckle

Garden's Ciceronian views, Subscription NO Bondage, John Heath, Wordsworth on copyright, Tom Moore's "postscript"

Colonial Office - Doyle elected, last words of Sydney Smith

Colonial Office - Apostles' dinner, ill, excesses of youth

Colonial Office - resolutions passed the previous night [at the Sterling Club], Club dinners

Colonial Office - negotiations for feeding the Sterling Club at the Piazza have fallen through but has arranged for them to dine at Will's Coffee House

Deckham Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne - death of Blakesley's mother.

Colonial Office - unable to [?go on holiday], cannot live outside London

sent Blakesley's answer to Longman, spending Christmas in Wales, Bacon "a young man with spirit beyond his powers, gathering together fragments of Bacon

80 Westbourne Terrace - enquires about Meson, Stratton an invalid but bears it stoically, has moved into a house with other members of his family

80 Westbourne Terrace - satisfied with political prospects, hopes Gladstone will exercise enough authority that his party will follow him, Irish protestants and tithes

80 Westbourne Terrace - missing volumes sent by post could be at the Athenaeum, thinks Bacon was unaware of the existence of Shakespeare

Plymouth - Failure of Tennant and Spedding, his family's new house, organ within, misgivings as to the capacity and honesty of the cabinet, Chancery and Parliamentary reform bills, poor heroic Poles, capture of Warsaw, still has not been given a curacy, application for the Mastership of King's College School, impressed by Tennyson's poetry.

Shanklin - visiting Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Spring Rice tending towards the high church, Spedding lamenting that he did not go to the Bar