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DT will be very pleased to see WW and Adam Sedgwick on Tuesday - 'could not you stay till at least the next morning?'.

DT would like WW to spend some time with him during the summer: 'Whatever time it might suit you to come...I should be delighted to talk to you about ancient architecture, and to accompany you over Norwich Cathedral and Castle, unquestionably among the finest specimen of Norman buildings in existence'. DT has looked at WW's book with great pleasure ['Architectural Notes on German Churches']: 'You have studied the subject profoundly and gone into the causes of things, while I have neither had the time, nor the knowledge, nor perhaps the abilities to do more than examine the surface'.

DT had hoped WW would return to Yarmouth on his way to the North. Further to Francis Baily's publication ['An Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed...compiled from his own Manuscripts and other authentic Documents, never before published', 1835] 'I can throw no light upon the document relating to Flamsteed which my daughter copied for you'.

WW's company gave a great deal of pleasure to DT, his wife and his daughter. WW should return from Edinburgh via Yarmouth - 'it is but little out of your way: the Newark coach will carry you direct to Norwich'. DT will not let WW leave Yarmouth this time 'without seeing all the most curious specimens of architectural antiquity'.

DT is pleased to say that WW's portrait has arrived safely at Charlotte Jones's [wife of Richard Jones]. He thanks WW for the present of his 'Bridgewater Treatise I had read before' ['Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology', 2nd edition 1834] and the 'other book' ['Architectural Notes on German Churches', new edition, 1835].

Adam Sedgwick informed DT that WW would be coming up to visit, 'and that I might then look to see both of you in Yarmouth'. DT went to a couple of AS's lectures: 'The fulness of his mind, the ardour of his spirit, the comprehensiveness of his views, depth of his knowledge, and the fluency of his diction are all wonderful'. DT is pleased WW is working on something 'worthy of your mind, your knowledge and your name' ['The History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time', 3 vols., 1837].

Thanks WW for his pamphlet on the Newton and Flamsteed controversy ['Newton and Flamsteed: Remarks on an Article in Number 109 of the Quarterly Review', 1836]: 'I am not sure that I do not wish that you had rather been content to let the whole matter rest, and not combat a review, which is in reality very much like combatting the air, and where our opponent must always be on unfair terms, inasmuch as the poison, if such be, will penetrate in numberless directions when the antidote cannot follow it. The fact appears to be, that Newton, great as he was, was not exempt from the common set of humanity; that Mr Baily's [Francis Baily] publication necessarily brought forth the weakness of his character in a strong light'.

DT is sorry they could not meet when WW was in Norwich. If WW needs any help in writing the history of botany, DT would be very willing to help.

Thanks WW for his present. 'I am persuaded that you will be gratified to hear - that your volumes have been my constant companions'. DT grew up on such compositions: 'The whole of the contents of your smaller volume are, with very few exceptions indeed, familiar to me in the original, and sufficiently so to enable me to appreciate the fidelity of the versions. Here too the notes give quite additional value ['Verse Translations from the German, including Lenore, Schiller's Song of the Bell', 1847]. In the larger volume I am less at home; its principal piece, Goethe's Herman and Dorothea, I never read before' [WW, 'Goethe's Herman and Dorothea', Fraser's Magazine, 1850].

List of 'a collection of posters and other ephemeral literature largely relating to Great Yarmouth, collected and in some cased annotated by Dawson Turner', offered for sale by Robin Waterfield Ltd, Oxford. With the transcript of a letter to J. Sainsbury 1 Dec. 1836, also offered for sale by the same bookseller. Accompanied by the letter offering the collection and letter for sale, 29 June 1979. Accompanied by a carbon typescript of the Librarian's reply.

Two typescript lists with summaries of the letters.