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2 Tobernea Terrace, Seapoint. - [Thomas] Thorpe of the Yorkshire College has been chosen for the South Kensington Chair [of chemistry, instead of her husband Walter Noel Hartley] but is not yet appointed; Lord Carlingford and Mr Mundella might reconsider if Houghton asked it; injustice; 'it is not a question of merit - simply one of influence.

2 Tobernea Terrace, Seapoint, Dublin. - Her husband Walter Noel Hartley has applied for the Chair of Chemistry at South Kensington; now fears Sir Henry Roscoe will give it to his friend Odling; Roscoe is using radical influence of Thomas Bayley Potter and Professor Huxley to further his ends; quotes Roscoe's refutation of promotion on merit; they will be ruined if the Nationalists and Jesuits manage to close the Dublin College of Science; will Houghton intercede with Lord Carlingford on her husband's behalf? Lady Cloncurry and Miss [Emily?] Lawless; her own current books: 'I have a novel creeping on - something in the style of Miss Ferrand'.