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Letter of acceptance for the 1905 Apostles' dinner.

On pre-printed memorandum paper; firm's addresses given as Whitefriars and 10 Bouverie Street. Re 'Cesnola's "Cyprus"'

Coldra, Caerleon, Newport, Mon[mouthshire].

With corrections and annotations. Endorsed by Lyon Barnes & Ellis, note that a fair copy has been made.

7 Camdn. St. & Town - He is going to publish the theory of the syllogism in a work on formal logic next year. The 'subject of a proposition is the more likely to be objective and the predicate more likely to contain the part which is subjective'. Can Whewell suggest any words? Could he use 'internal & external, or notional and actual'? Like others, ADM finds he 'always has to find out the meaning of these words afresh, every time they come to the subject'.

Written from Aversa.

18 Downing Street - congratulations on his fellowship, reform "goes on smilingly", enquires about [John Mitchell] Kemble and [Richard Chenevix] Trench's involvement in Torrijos' defeat

Trinity College - WW 'was greatly indignant at the democrats pretending to make out that it was impendent for the ends of truth and national prosperity that their dogmas on the subject should be disseminated wide and thick, but if you will make haste and give them a second of the true doctrine it will no doubt be much better than any attempt to poke them down by detached arguments' [the intended sequel to RJ's work on rent was wages]. RJ will probably have WW's article in the Quarterly Review: 'I think I have given you a more scanty pittance than I needed to have done. But I was afraid that if I begun at all to talk in the strain which would have expressed my own views and feelings I should lose the confidence both of my editor and my reader, and be looked on as a mere personal friend'. WW likes RJ's 'aspirations after a reform or at any rate a trial in the way of reviewing for ourselves'. He has 'a strong conviction that taking such a line of moral philosophy, political economy, and science, as I suppose we should, we might partly find and partly form a school which would be considerable in influence of the best kind'.

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Informs him that the portrait of [Spencer] Perceval has arrived, and thanks him for the valuable gift.

Ore Place, Hastings. No date - Sends him a copy of the article he is going to publish; Frazer will see that they have differences of opinion, and in reading him, wished that he had made another use of his talents, and wonders if he has thought that his writings could be 'dangereux pour des âmes'; asks pardon for the freedom with which he writes.

Reports that the authorities at Trinity College have offered him the post of 'Lecturer on Moral Sciences' at £200 a year, on the understanding that he repudiate all dogmatic obligations. Intends to resign his fellowship. Reports that he has had a conversation with [Bishop] Lightfoot about his situation, and announces that he has been 'partly determined by his advice not to secede from the Church of England.' Discusses his position with regard to his beliefs, including his attitude towards the Apostles' Creed. Asks her to show the letter to Arthur. Admits to be very glad to be 'free from the anxiety of weighing pros and cons.' Mentions that his income will be seriously reduced, but that he shall have much more than enough to live on.

Thanks Sidgwick for his letter. Reports that since they saw each other at Cambridge he has been reading the statutes of the [Whewell] International Law Professorship, and he believes that 'the founder of the Professorship contemplated the Professor being [ ] engaged in non-academical pursuits.' States however that his intentions regarding the India Office 'are independent of any question raised by Dr Whewell's will.' Believes that it would be 'extremely wrong' that any public servant should hold a seat on the Indian Council as well as two academic offices, viz., the Mastership of Trinity Hall and the International Professorship, and states that if he were to be appointed to the latter, he would resign from the Indian Council as soon as he could. His perception of the situation is that the electors, having surveyed the field of candidates, came to the conclusion that there was no one to be preferred to Maine, he would be invited to apply for the position. Suggests that it would be enough if he authorised Sidgwick to declare him a candidate; assures him that he is 'not for a moment suggesting that' Sidgwick vote for him. Asks him to let him know the result by telegraph when the election is over.

Accompanied by three extracts from Henry Jackson's commonplace book about the '77 Club, two menus for dinners of the '77 Club from 1904 and 1911, with signatures of those present, including Gurdon and Jackson, and a cutting about the '77 Club.

Rainer, A.C. 1939-41, 1950. Mainly re Frisch's parents.

Ramsey, N.F. 1950, 1954

Rasmussen, E. 1946, 1949

Ratcliffe, J.A. 1969-70, 1974

Raven, C.E. n.d. c. 1969

Simons, L. 1939

Smith, C. 1939-40. Re Annual Report for the Journal of the Chemical Society (see What little I remember, pp.124-125)

Stern, O. 1939. Frisch's carbon only.

Urbach, F. 1939