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Letter from John Herschel
Letter from John Herschel
Add. MS a/207/92 · Stuk · 12 Apr. 1857
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

JH and Margaret Herschel will be delighted to see WW. He is very pleased to hear that WW is editing Jones' posthumous works - JH has some sheets of RJ's lectures which went to the press but were never published. He is grieved to hear that George Peacock is so ill. 'What a queer book that is of Herbert Spencer!'
Letter from Henry Hallam
Add. MS a/205/92 · Stuk · 22 Jan. 1851
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Wilton Crescent - HH is not familiar with the work on moral philosophy WW refers to. Thanks WW for 'the Professor's Wife' [Auerbach Berthold, The Professor's Wife translated by WW, 1851].
Letter from Henry Sidgwick to E. W. Benson
Add. MS c/100/91b · Stuk · 1891?
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Undertakes to write on 'the other matter...as soon as the visit is over', and states that they both entirely agree with Benson's view of 'the present situation.' Is glad to hear that Hugh is quite recovered. Adds that the Conservatives 'have just decided, by 50 to 16, to select Jebb for vacant seat' [in Parliament for Cambridge University]. Incomplete.
Letter from George Airy
Letter from George Airy
Add. MS a/200/91a · Stuk · 20 Nov. 1851
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Royal Observatory Greenwich - 'Richarda Airy has determined on taking our daughter [Elizabeth Airy who is ill] to Madeira. This, I need not say, is a grave measure; the mere expense is to me not a slight thing; but the most serious part is the separation for so long a time of the head of such a family'. GA proposes to come to Cambridge at some time and among other things talk to WW about the Sydney Professorships: 'These good people in Australia suddenly sent a commission to Herschel, Malden, H. Denisen, and myself, to ship them off 3 professors'.
Letter from Henry Sidgwick to unknown recipient
Add. MS c/100/91a · Stuk · n.d.
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Hopes that his addressee liked the song he gave him/her, and states that the plot of the poem wherein it is to come 'was harrowing in the extreme'. Relates some of the plot, involving the characters Damon, Pythias, and a heroine, with whom they both fall in love. Refers also to the structure of the work, which 'concludes with a mild ode.' [Incomplete].
Five letters from Sarat Chandra Roy to Sir James Frazer
FRAZ/3/91-95 · Stuk · 1932-1937
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

'Man in India', Ranchi (India) - In letter of 27 July 1932 he is ready to publish a volume on the Bhuiyas; is working on a comparative study of the ethnology of the Munda tribes of India and asks for advice on the manner of collecting data and presenting it. Four letters (one of them typed) concern his publications and contain requests for review copies of Frazer's latest books: on 4 April 1935 he tells Frazer he is sending 'The Hill Bhuiyas of Orissa', asks Frazer to bring it to the attention of Western anthropologists; on 27 June 1935 he wonders if he received the book and asks for a copy of 'Totemism and Exogamy'; on 22 April 1937 he tells Frazer he is sending a copy of his latest publication; on 21 Oct. 1937 he wonders if his book on the Kharia tribe reached him and asks for a copy of 'Totemica'.