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40 Weymouth Street - will advise Mrs Blakesley and Lady Miller on plays, did not think that he would live to be "one of the most celebrated and unpopular men of the day", Done attacked in Bell's Weekly Messenger, "snobbish and impertinent" letter from Lowe's Private Secretary

Has had a letter from a friend that tells him a decision will be made on April 5th and that it is likely to be favourable; has written to E. D. Adrian.

7 Camden St. & Town - De Morgan admits all Whewell urges against his 'loose expression - which probably conveyed the idea that I meant a cusp must be a defunct loop - what I ought to have said is, show me a cusp - and I show you its curve as an individual of one family in which a loop dies at the cusp. But then I can show it you as an individual of an infinite number of other families - some of which have that cusp permanently'. You may be able to explain the deviation of a cusp in one family but the difficulty may remain in another. The same thing is applicable with a conjugate point. De Morgan has been 'trying to ascertain that 'from and after' and also 'after' in old English includes the day from which reckoning is made - in opposition to lawyers and others'.

London - CL has forwarded WW's corrections [Review of 'Lyell's 'Principles of Geology', volume 2', Quarterly Review, 1832] to the printer. Lockhart [John Gibson Lockhart - editor of the Quarterly Review] has read WW's review article and tells CL: 'there are some passages in which the style is 'contorted' - I would willingly give him two sheets if he would indulge in enlarging, not on your book for there is just about enough of that already but on the source of the more popular subjects treated of in your volume'.

'The Nineteenth Century & After,' Ltd., 10 & 12 Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.2. - Gives permission to use two articles on William Cowper; would be happy to accept another article for publication.

Accompanied by the envelope.

Garden Corner, West Road, Cambridge. - Glad to hear from Charles that 'the Name & Arms are dead'. Originally enclosing something which 'may interest' Bob. Notes in a postscript that he has read 'nearly all the Macaulay journals' and thinks it would be 'a mistake to make an extensive publication of them': their father had produced an edited version 'with great skill' ["Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay"]; much of the rest is interesting 'if one really cares about Macaulay' but never meant for publication.

Mile End House, Englefield Green, Surrey. - Very kind of Bessie to make 'all that careful provision for Donald [Tovey: for his stay at the Shiffolds]'. Hopes he may soon 'dispense with invalid ways' as he longs to; the major danger is from his 'unnecessarily great weight'; he should keep to a strict diet, rise from meals hungry, and walk as much as he can outdoors. The Trevelyans' 'beautiful high place' will do him good; hopes they have good weather.

Université de Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris - Admires 'Le folklore dans l'Ancien Testament'.

Trinity College - It looks like Lockhart [John Lockhart] at last intends to put WW's review of RJ in the Quarterly Review. The article will hopefully do more good than if WW had written it against Peter [possibly William Peter or Karl L. Peter]: 'Still I should have liked much to have a knock at him for his reasoning in the Edinburgh...We must judge as well as we can whether after this article appears it is needful to answer Peter's puzzles'. WW is inclined to do so since they are the puzzles of an array of people: 'The two main points seem to be the proof that Ricardo, the Ricardians etc not merely mean Ricardian rents, which I suppose can be made out palpably enough: and the proof that McCulloch [J. R. McCulloch] himself has never had any but the most imperfect and incoherent glimpses of the effect of agricultural improvements; and that you have labour up that part in a way which shews the importance and having of it'. WW only talks of such projects for speculations sake. 'I do not know whether you are exactly aware how the young Ricardians will meet your proofs that the increase of rent is owing to improvement'. WW explains how he thinks they will counter RJ's claims.

Looking for a house in the vicinity of Rugby, has applied to five house agents but has heard of no house that meets her requirements

Encouragement for the Mathematical Tripos

Reports that they have 'a fairly perfect record' of writers [for The Spectator], and that he is having the file searched for Henry Sidgwick's work. Hopes to be able to send Nora the result by at the end of the week. Expresses his delight to hear that she is preparing a memoir of Henry's life: although he saw very little of him, he 'always had the greatest veneration for his powerful and original mind.'

In French.