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On Eltham Palace

With deepest appreciation for his rare talent and humanity.

Encloses a copy of a letter from Zachary Macaulay to Thomas Gisborne about his son John Gisborne's behaviour.

Imp[erial] Yeomanry Hospital, Pretoria.

South Eaton Place.

John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor failed to get a Bell's Scholarship, Robert Bickersteth Mayor elected fellow and about to become a master at Rugby

8 Charles St [on embossed Athenaeum Club notepaper].

New York.

Stibbington Rectory, Wansford. - Re Roman remains at Lydney.

Endorsed by Ellis & Ellis. Note by Edward F. Jenner that it was sworn before him at the Principal Registry, Doctors Commons, on 28 Feb. 1874.

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'.

Richards's Coffee house, Temple Bar - Thanks WW for his letter which contains many excellent schemes. EB has been with Babbage and Herschel: 'we have had a kind of committee of notation' and 'have agreed also upon a Digest, of which you must take part. It consists of a collection of all known algebraic results, arranged in the order of Deduction'.

Clifton, Bristol - JDF is disappointed that 'on the very eve of quitting the north [to avoid the weather] I learned by your kind note that we might have hoped to see you today'. Mr and Mrs Airy have been to stay for a couple of days. Since he has been ill, JDF has been struck by the sympathy he has received from his Cambridge friends.

Feels it conceivable that events in Austria are preliminaries for war. Wittgenstein had planned to visit Austria for a month in May or June and enquires of Sraffa whether, if he does so, he will be let out of Austria and whether he will be let back into England. Has £300-£400 in England and nothing in Austria. Thinks it would be useful to get employment in England for political reasons; aims to get a job as 'some sort of lecturer' in Cambridge. Thinks that he might apply for Irish citizenship,