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A bound volume with 44 items tipped in, many of them collected during trips to the Continent and an 1825 visit to Vienna in particular. Eight passports for Whewell are dated 1820-1839, and are accompanied by playbills, handbills, museum and gallery catalogues, coach tickets, price lists, pamphlets, advertisements, offprints, clippings, and a MS poem apparently written on the publication of Whewell's book on inductive sciences. Playbills, handbills and pamphlets from Vienna in late summer/early autumn 1825 include those for Kotzebue's "Das Epigramm", Friedrich Kind's "Der Freischütz", Adolph Bäuerle's "Fausts Mantel", a firework spectacular by Paul Chiarini, an exhibition of paintings by Johann Peter Krafft and a museum catalogue to the Schloss Ambras collection [by curator Alois Primisser], with an appendix describing ethnographic collections gathered in the South Sea islands and Greenland.

The other printed material dates from roughly the same time period and includes the lithograph plates and key from the Descriptive Catalogue sold at the exhibition of Sir George Hayter's painting "The Trial of Queen Caroline", an account of a dinner in honour of Sir John Malcolm, and a lithograph of a University of Virginia examination in Plane Trigonometry in Dec. 1826, a handbill printed in Cambridge advertising Spence's Invention of a Perpetual Motion machine, and a list of "Soirées françaises par souscription" in London in June 1825.

WW is meeting two Frenchmen tomorrow one of whom JCH would probably like. His name is Rio and he is a friend of the Malcolms who are enchanted by him. He is a philosopher of the school of [Bunald?], an intimate friend of de Maistre and of Schelling. WW is amused by the reason for his trip to England: 'he holds that the Celts are the only sound part of the French population - the only part which has any religion or any social vitality. From the French Celts the regeneration of France must come if it come at all. But the French Celts are poor, and have been oppressed, and have let some of their Celtic spirit and culture slip away from them. This is to be restored by a reinfusion of Celtic poetry and history. So M. Rio is come to cultivate the Welsh'. Connop Thirlwall's 'lectures are admirable and the men take to them with great earnestness'.

Trinity College - WW will be glad to propose RJ's queries to Sir John Malcolm. He wishes RJ would let WW give Lord Palmerston's Committee 'at least one of your works. I do not think it will be a disagreeable business for the university to turn him out upon that senseless obstinacy of feeling against the Catholics; and to turn him out for a man like Copley [John S. Copley - Lord Lyndhurst] whose talents are too much entangled with a character of doubtful honesty to make him a respectable member'.

Langton House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. Dated 15 and 28 February 1908 - Sends a quotation about the Persian king Shah Abbas, and how he dealt with an omen of danger, an excerpt from [John] Malcolm's, 'History of Persia'; in the second letter he sends something similar [not transcribed] from [John] Stevens, a translation of [Pedro] Teixeira's [History of Persia].

Herstmonceux, Hailsham - It has been a great regret to JCH that he cannot spend a few days in Cambridge as intended, but because he is always leaving home for one reason or another he did not want to get a reputation in his parish for vagrancy. What has WW heard of Kenelm H. Digby's wife: 'Alas! he might too easily be deceived, or rather deceive himself about her character. If she be worthy of him, his marriage will be a great blessing'. JCH gives news concerning the Malcolms. 'It is an evil case to be born at a time when the shadow of coming events almost forces one to join a party. For what party can one join? Whenever in the best there is so much of absurdity, and so little of charity'.

73 South Audley Street - JCH had hoped to hear WW's Commencement Sermon, however he is to accompany Sir John and Lady Malcolm to Portsmouth. Although she is much better she is still very weak and nervous. JCH sends WW a copy of his and Augustus Hares's Guesses [Guesses at Truth, By Two Brothers, 1827].

JCH saw Sir John Malcolm - accompanied by Lady Malcolm and Maman - off to Portsmouth. Maman was annoyed that WW did not bother to come and spend a few hours with Sir John in London prior to his departure.

Brasted - RJ cannot get to London at the time WW mentions but will be at home. He wants John Malcolm to answer a few queries about Persia.