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London - recovered from illness, "spoliation" bill, looks forward to Wellington bringing in a bill to abolish the Church of England, affairs of Lord Ailesbury and Lord Bruce, Kenny in love with Augusta Ponsonby, Porlett Thompson flirting with Lady Tankerville, British Association meeting at Cambridge, Cambridge debauchery

2 Brook Street - HH has read 'with entire acquiescence the volume on University Education you have been good enough to send me' [Of a Liberal Education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge, 1845]. HH agrees with all of the book: 'About the preference to be given to geometry as an education of the mind I can entertain no doubt whatsoever'. However, he thinks more should have been said on experimental philosophy as a pedagogical tool. WW has 'rightly commented on Lyell [Travels in North America, 2 vols., 1845]. It was neither natural nor national to insert in a book upon America, the remarks you have so justly considered'. HH stayed with their good friend Everett [Edward Everett] while he was in the USA, who is currently debating whether to accept the place of President of the Harvard College at Cambridge - 'I trust he may decide in the affirmative'.

WW is pleased to hear that JCH is much better. WW wants him to cast his thoughts back to etymologies: 'You will still recollect with pleasure our old Etymological Society of (I think) 1832, though so many of the members have been called away from this world of words to the realities beyond the grave. I want to send a few memoranda respecting that Society to the existing Philological Society of London' [Philological Society, No. 117, Vol. V, Feb. 20, 1852].

Gross-Lichterfelde West bei Berlin - Sends a copy of the advertisement for the 'Golden Bough' that he wrote for the 'Literar Centralblatt'; studies folklore with the aim of refuting the 'blood accusation' against the Jews; is sending copies of his book [unidentified], asks for his comments.

Asks whether the 'I. of the S.' is proved or not. Wishes Myers to dine with him 'on Thursday at 7.15', and reports that his Anglo-Indian friends, the [Charles?] Bernards will be there, and he wishes them to hear Myers' 'additional evidence'.

States that as he fully concurs 'in the letter referring to the Syndicate proposed to consider the "Greek Question"' [see 101/99], he wishes his name to be added to the memorial.

Written in Thomson's hand

Trinity College - If RJ is applying to the University press syndicate he should do so this term. There is a movement at large which wants to establish a professorship in political economy 'on nearly the same conditions as that at Oxford. It is to be established in honour of Huskisson [William Huskisson], by some friends of his - there are two difficulties: one to fix the mode of election the other to get rid of Payne [George Payne]. They wanted to put Malthus in as the first professor'. WW has sent another review of RJ's book to the British Critic ['Review of An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and Sources of Taxation by the Revd Richard Jones', The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, 10, 1831].

RJ finds 'the gentle public much struck with your answer to Lyell [Charles Lyell] as perfectly efficient' ['Of a Liberal Education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge', 1845]. RJ thinks WW's 'general principles too as far as I hear meet with great ascent - different opinions as to many of the details of course you are prepared for'. RJ feels great pleasure at WW's 'effort to purify and amend the mathematical training of the place. I have long been convinced that as a matter of training exclusive habits of symbolical reasoning are not merely useless but deleterious and I see very often instances of their bad effects on men of very acute minds'. WW has not converted RJ into liking oral examinations although most of the men at Haileybury to some extent side with WW - 'but I once passed a morning in the schools at Oxford and came away with a profound conviction of the intense injustice of using oral trials for the purposes of assigning relative rank for which men have toiled for years and I do not think that conviction will leave me on this side [of] the grave'. WW's book will probably do good at Cambridge - but only slowly. RJ gives an outline of his current state of health.

Cambridge University Press 1953-74

Correspondence on various projects and proposed books.

Includes agreement for collaborative book on 'Fission', 1953. See C.68, 'Atoms - Manual'.

Correspondence re proposed book on 'Subatomic Particles' or 'Elementary Particles', eventually dropped at Frisch's request 1960-64. See C.69, 'Subatomic Particles'.

Correspondence re Niels Bohr's Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature, and including Frisch's introduction for reissued version, 1960.

Correspondence re translation of Schrödinger's Meine Weltansicht, and including a 'trial translation' by Frisch, 1961-64.

Agreement for proposed book on 'Quantum Theory and Beyond' to be written by Frisch, 1970.

Other miscellaneous correspondence, last date 1974

10 King's Parade, Cambridge. Dated 30 Oct. 1915 - Has sent his 'Golden Bough' and 'Psyche's Task' to Kingsmead, accidentally sent the anthropological questions there as well; has [William] Ridgeway's book which apparently controverts some of his views, and has had a friendly letter from him; [W. H. R.] Rivers is expected in Cambridge in two weeks, perhaps he can come visit then.

Batleigh Vicarage, Glastonbury - In the table of contents for 'Vol. II of mixed sciences Ency met: - [Encyclopaedia Metropolitana] 'I perceive that you are wronged by the whole of the Electricity - being attributed to me'. He will rectify the situation with the editor at the first opportunity. Would WW like to come and 'visit these parts' and see 'Gothic ruins and Fossil bone caves'. FL wishes to be remembered to Adam Sedgwick.

Re plan to assist sculptors.

Experiments, calculations, diagrams, etc. running '26.2.1941' to '13.12.1942'.

A few calculations also at rear of book.

With deepest appreciation for his rare talent and humanity.

Mount Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill. - Thanks Trevelyan for his 'delightful present' ["The New Parsifal"?]; has just begun to read it and is finding it 'promising'; the printing is 'beautiful'.

Thorpeness, Suffolk. - Robert's poems ["From the Shiffolds"] were a 'delightful surprise': it is a great 'comfort... to turn away from the utterly beastly war to poetry, or music or the like'. The world is 'nearly intolerable' and the war 'seems quite interminable'; hopes it has not treated Robert 'too cruelly' and that he has not had too many doodlebugs. They [she and her friend Lady Dorothea Gibb] were 'on their route for many nights', and the guns against them 'made a devil of a row', but it has been more peaceful recently; she sees however that the death toll from the doodlebugs was 'dreadfully high' last month. Is glad Roger [her brother] is not here to 'endure it'. 'Poor Holland must be suffering terribly': expects the Trevelyans are 'longing for news', as she is herself of 'one dear friend there'. Sends some of her 'own products', though quite different to Robert's; he need not read or acknowledge them. Her anthology, "Ruth's Gleanings", is 'obstinately out of print like most books'. Hopes next year will bring 'a happier world in every sort of way'.