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40, Moorside, Fenham, Newcastle-on-Tyne. - Thanks Trevelyan for the book of Greek plays [Trevelyan's translation of Aeschylus' "Oresteia"] which he has received from the publisher. Does not know Greek; has already read the plays in [John Stuart] Blackie's version, but thinks Trevelyan's version has 'far more rhythm and poetic force, besides being more direct & simple'. The 'musical sonority' of the verse appeals to him greatly. Unable to get to London after all, so the chance of seeing Trevelyan in the holidays has vanished; there may be another opportunity later. Sends New Year best wishes to the Trevelyans.

43 Castle Street, Edinburgh - Thanks WW for his Plato: 'I am very glad that you have taken up Plato, in the way you have done. That...blundering blockhead Burgess [George Burges], with his tasteless and unintelligible jargon called English, has done a great deal of harm to the divine philosophers'.

Includes articles about hexameters and Philarète Chasles' remarks (with Whewell's reply) in complete issues of The Athenaeum (no. 1121, 21 Apr. 1849, no. 1124, 12 May 1849, part of no. 1125, 19 May 1849), with 5 cuttings from literary papers of poetry, three of them translations of Goethe, with comments and revisions by Whewell in ink, and a proof of an article for The Press 12 Apr. 1862 by J. S. Blackie disagreeing with Whewell and John Gibson Lockhart about the utility of a translation of Homer in English hexameter; a privately printed set of "Dargle Verses" by William Rowan Hamilton in 1854, an offprint of H. A. J. Munro's On a metrical Latin inscription" in 1861, both bearing the author's inscriptions, and an issue of Punch*, no. 559, vol. 22, 27 Mar. 1852 featuring "The Death of the Sea-Serpent" by Publius Jonathan Virgilius Jefferson Smith".