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Letter from Edward Clodd to J. G. Frazer
Add. MS c/56/12 · Item · 2 Nov. 1920
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Aldeburgh - Is surprised to hear he has never been to Brussels; comments on the political situation, thinks the League of Nations, like Socialism can only succeed when human nature alters; worries about unrest in the East after the defeat of Russia by Japan; saw [W. H. R.] Rivers while he was at [A. C.] Haddon's, and mentioned his championship of Elliot Smith's theory of diffusion; gets much attention from spiritualists sending brochures, etc., has agreed to review a 'huge and repellent book' of exudations of 'psychic matter'; wishes Frazer could have noticed his book ['Magic in a Name'] in the 'Observer'.
Richard Jones to William Whewell
Add. MS c/52/12 · Item · [16 Oct. 1826]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Brasted - RJ knows as much as WW regarding John Herschel's movements. However, RJ 'can answer for him as boldly as if I was present to his thoughts - 1st he will not stand if there is a chance that he would be in your way or I think Peacock's [George Peacock] - 2ndly He will not stand if he has to canvass the heads with a chance of an opposition so far I am sure 3rdly I do think he would accept the professorship with the expressed and implied condition of lecturing if you and Peacock were out of the question and it was offered him unanimously'. However this will not happen. Herschel further has an 'aversion to the very thought of a Cambridge professorship - he wrote to me with some surprise and some apparent sorrow when you first talked of the mineralogical chair but promised if you got it, to with hold for the future more of the contempt he had been endulging in against the university professorships'. RJ does not think WW should give up the Mineralogical professorship for the Lucasian since the former is tenable and the latter is not. Hence if WW wants to stay in Cambridge and get married, as he has always maintained, he should stick with it -'If moreover you are ever to give way to Peacock I had rather it were now than on some future occasion, because to say the truth, I am intimately persuaded more you will get it now and that if Newton himself were to come to life as a plain Master of Arts the heads would give it to French without hesitation and perhaps with an additional relish from the mere weakness of the job - I say this without any ill will to Peacock - there are not many men I wish better to - I am supposing you to be sure of the mineralogical'. If Julius Hare is not in Cambridge RJ is willing to come and listen to WW's thoughts. WW should not wait to hear from Herschel and would himself have a better chance than Peacock and King for the Lucasian Chair - 'I do not know why but Peacock is not popular in the University'.
William Whewell to Richard Jones
Add. MS c/51/12 · Item · 10 July 1822
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Trinity College - WW has been waiting for RJ's catalogue of required books. He has made a few purchases including 'the book which I recollect right you were most impatient for. Its title is England's measure by foreign trade etc..written by Thomas Mun of Lond. merchant. 1669-' Although the book might not be what RJ wants since WW recognises 'some of the sentences as what I have already seen in some of your pamphlets - particularly an enumeration of the qualities of a good merchant, and a hypothetical statement of exports...What I have made of it appears in a great measure very clever and sensible excepting the conclusions which he draws from his reasonings'. He has also another book entitled 'The unhappiness of England as to its trade by sea and land truly stated... ' by Charles Povey, 1701. WW also has 'the prize essay in 1755, fellow to the one which you have got, is A view of the manner in which trade and civil liberty support each other by Wm. Hazeland.' WW will send them to RJ. John Herschel has sent RJ the French periodical work which came from Edinburgh. The Cambridge fever has killed five Johnians.
Letter from Arthur Sidgwick to Nora Sidgwick.
Add. MS b/71/12 · Item · 28 Jun 1901
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Explains that he has been occupied with various affairs since her letter arrived, including 'presenting D.Litt. candidate for Degree, and organising lunch party in Corpus for [his] indefatigable brother in law Archdeacon [Edward] Wilson....' Announces that he goes the following day to Haslemere to work with 'HGD' [Henry Graham Dakyns] 'at the remaining letters of his series which [they] had not time to finish' when he was in Oxford. Asks Nora for any other letters that she is able to send him, since he now has time to spend more time working on them. Informs her, confidentially, that his retirement [as Tutor at Corpus Christi, Oxford) is now fixed for Easter 1902. States that he shall keep his Readership, and also his 'A.E.W. work' [Association for the Education of Women in Oxford]. In relation to Frank [Sidgwick], declares that he is 'no scholar', and that he [Arthur] has 'never had any illusions about his Tripos.' Announces that he is writing to Mrs [Eveleen?] Myers. States that he kept the books because since he returned his proofs to the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography he has heard nothing, and thought it possible that 'he might require a revise, which might mean reference to the books again.'

 Sidgwick, Arthur (1840–1920), educationist and classical scholar
Typed letter from Jerry Weinstein
SHAF/A/1/W/12 · Item · 30 Aug. [1957?]
Part of Papers of Sir Peter Shaffer

Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, 2 Rue Andre-Pascal, Paris XVIe - Was on holiday without him, and regrets it; gives advice on holidays in Cannes, St Tropez, Le Lavandou, Cavalaire, St Maxime and Raphael, or Oktoberfest in Munich.