Presumes Trinity does not want him to return, will get in touch with the WEA on his return with a view to lecturing, Winstanley, Burnaby and Bragg all seem to be back at Trinity.
Is going to write a second part to Of a Liberal Education, and would like to print extracts from a letter Lyttelton wrote dated 29 Nov. 1847 (Item 59).
WW has been writing his reply to Peter [possibly William Peter or Karl L. Peter. See WW to RJ, 9 October 1831], and is inclined 'to make a separate pamphlet of it by which means it can be more easily disseminated among those whom one would wish to see it'. WW does 'not much like the thought of having anything to do with Blackwood' [Blackwood Magazine]. However, because his piece on John Herschel in the Quarterly Review 'is so little likely to attract or interest readers that I have little doubt Lockhart [John Lockhart] thinks himself well rid of me'. WW should do what Macaulay [Thomas B. Macaulay] 'does in reviews, who always takes care to put in as much thought as he can express clearly and illustrate well and not a bit more'.
Asks for a portfolio 'exactly like Edward's that is with the "leg" attached to the frame'. Sends the enclosed item [not included] to be forwarded to his aunt. Sends his love to his aunt.
Correspondence re apparatus for chromatographic analysis.
1 Brick Court, Temple, London, E.C.4. Dated 3 Feb. 1919 - More about the Royal Society committee funding Roscoe's expedition to Uganda: [Arthur] Keith is waiting to know whether [Walter] Long and Lord Milner will join the Committee; is glad an inexpensive substitute can be found, and that he will use Goverment agents in Mombasa.
Collingwood - JH sends WW his translation of book fourteen of Homer's 'Iliad', and hopes WW is not getting too tired of the subject: 'for the very name of a translation of Homer is beginning to nauseate the Public'. JH notes that yet another hexameter translation is coming out 'by a Mr. Saxton or Simpson? or some such name!...I spare you that it is dead weight'. JH is still suffering from bronchitis. JH does not think he will be able to get his translation printed: 'Longman whom I contacted about printing the 1st half as vol. i. fights shy of it altogether and talks about the general prejudice against Hexameters etc'. William Herschel and his wife have arrived in Calcutta.
When they last met HB should have mentioned Mr Rodrich - a young friend of HB's - who is going to Cambridge: 'I am anxious he should be made known to you whether he enters at Trinity or not'.
Asks H M Butler to protect the son of Henry Dawson at Harrow:
Correspondents include M.G. Kendall (request for article on Boole to be written by Taylor), H.S.M. Coxeter exhibition of Alice Stott's models, K. Lonsdale exhibition of Alice Stott's models, K. Avak (Mary Boole), J.H.H. Merriman (new letters of George Boole), W.B. Lewis
R.H. True (Alice Stott)
H.G. Hopkins
Autograph seeker.
Villa Syracusa, Torquay.