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Thanks Sidgwick for 'a full and clear reply' [ADD.MS.c/100/93], and claims that the latter's views 'exactly coincide' with his, in relation to the 'argument' in question. Asks Sidgwick who is the chief logician in his university. Recommends 'Magic Pens' to him.

Reports that he has been reading Sidgwick's proof sheets [for The Elements of Politics?] 'with interest and delight', and that he has 'little to suggest.' Judged the chapter on law and morality to be particularly good. States that if he were writing the book that he would 'hedge' a little about continental notions of law. Relates that since he was talking to Sidgwick that he has been reading several German law books, and that his view of the duties of a German judge 'is all the more hazy.' Notes that a jurist 'even when he is writing about elementary legal ideas, e.g., possession will cite 'Entscheidungen der ob[ersten] Geshichte of von Celle, Darmstadt, [Rostock]' etc. if he thinks them sound'. Refers to the notion of a '[hertige] römische Recht', which he contends has rendered everything so vague. Claims that according to the English idea of a good judge, 'he does justice when he sees and oportunity of doing it', and that 'a man could be a judge of quite the highest order without a strong feeling for positive morality.' Suggests that Sidgwick might add that the English highest courts of appeal, House of Lords and Judicial Committee 'hold themselves bound by their own decisions in earlier cases. As regards different laws in different parts of a country, cites the advantages gained by experience, and the positive effect Scotch experience has had on English law, and vice versa. Praises the chapter on International Law and Morality, and comments on the great difficulty there exists in obtaining a body of international rules deserving the name of law.

Correspondence mainly re proposed collection of essays and lectures by Frisch, to be published under the title 'Looking at Atoms'; includes Frisch's suggested list of material (July 1957) and readers' reports (January 1958).

RJ returns WW's proof ['Of a Liberal Education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge', 1845]: 'Certainly there is nothing in it that Lyell [Charles Lyell] can have the slightest right to complain of. There is one point on which I think you might have dilated and reproved a little more, with advantage. I mean his quietly taking it for granted that the system which best suits the best pupils is best, or fit for all - you have hit the point clearly enough for your best readers but have not kept it long enough in view for the mass. It deserves exposure and compleat exposure because it is at the bottom of half the nonsense talked and believed about education in general and Scotch and English education in particular and I know of old that no head is more mystified by the error than Lyell's'. WW should also speak more about 'the extent & objects of the "obedience & deference to authority" which you speak of in 120'. RJ describes the state of his health.

71 Onslow Square. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Bequeaths selected verses: earliest is the hunting song and last the Magnus Annus; nobody has ever seen them before; 'I never sought celebrity by any Printing - I don't care, after [his death?]'

The second notebook of four into which G. N. Wilson copied chapters XII-XXI of Ramanujan's Notebook 2, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.105-107A. Envelope carries notes by B. M. Wilson.

Letter of [1844?] is typescript copy.

Including verses.