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Bound unpublished manuscript with a title page laid out as if printed, including "London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1824" at bottom, with "London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars" on the verso of the half title. In the 13 page preface Buller takes issue with the editor of the second edition of Tyrwhitt's translation of The Poetics, arguing that much of Aristotle's works have been superseded by later works and discoveries and disparaging an Oxford education as never looking beyond Aristotle to Burke, Schlegel, Bacon, Locke, and other later writers. With a short post scriptum moderating the tone of his attack on the editor of the second edition of Tyrwhitt, instead placing the blame on the man's education at Oxford. The translation contains only part of Note I, and appears to be either incomplete or missing the rest of the notes, which appear in the body of the text as running up to XXVII.

Accompanied by a sheet of paper with notes in a different hand in French, Latin, and Greek laid in loose, quoting Thucydides on the plague of Athens.

Reigate. Will pay their bill as soon as he returns to London

CK is sorry that the separate table of tides escaped his recollection. He will pass on JWL's directions to his assistant immediately.

Pleased to hear of the progress made by TM's pupils, sees a new era of education ahead, government becoming liberals, differences with Maculloch and Mill

Orleans - GA and his students are settled in Orleans and 'in as satisfactory a state of stable equilibrium as can be expected'. If his paper in the Philosophical Transactions has been published could WW send him 70 copies. Could WW tell [Henry] Kater 'that I have investigated a theory of the pendulum...as he suggested to me: and that the interval to reappearance does not follow so simple a law as he seemed to imagine?' And if he sees Young, that further to his letter addressed to GA in the Quarterly Journal, 'I get a different result? The result however consolidates his influence. The problem is, to find the form of a thin revolving fluid surrounding a nucleus'.

JH's reasons for declining to become a candidate for the Lucasian Chair: He does 'not wish to devote myself exclusively or par excellence to any one branch of science - perhaps too a consciousness that I prefer physical to mathematical science'. Any science he does do 'I had rather should be considered as done an amateur than as a matter of duty and profession'. JH has written to [James] Wood to canvass for Babbage. JH has become 'an ultra-Huttonian in regard of long geological periods'.

Calais - JH has told the printers to send WW the proofs of his article on light ['Treatise on Light', Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, 1827], and is very obliged to WW for undertaking the superintendence of the press in his absence. JH has been careful with the history: 'I do not want to take on myself a task so insidious as balancing the merits and settling or even stating the claims of men so jealous as Brewster and Biot and Arago'.

Orleans - GA has not heard from John Herschel and is not sure whether he has reached Paris yet - perhaps he is with Arago? Could WW send the GA's papers to his forthcoming address in Paris [see GA to WW, 10 August 1826]. [Henry] Kater was perfectly satisfied with the correction of Lambton's error: 'moreover I discussed with him most vehemently the question of disappearance and reappearances versus disappearances only and persuaded him at least to confess that the disappearances only would not give a right result except all circumstances such as the rate of the pendulum on the clock, the arcs of the two pendulums, and the magnitudes of the discs, were the same. He hoped that in giving an account to the Royal Society we should not spare Parkinson'. GA outlines the part of the account he is to contribute. He is 'thinking of means to make chronometers transportable in a kibble & various other things, and will bring you a complete plan for conducting the operations. Of course I shall not do anything till I have seen you'.

Liverpool - Thanks WW for his letter and the 'frankness' with which he expressed himself over a problem SJ had sent to him over equations applied to a pulley: The 'inferences from which I deduced the absurdities were made without reflecting that the force, which sustains P, acts on the opposite side of the tangent plane on which P may be supposed to rest, and consequently has a tendency to increase the pressure'. SJ is aware that not only the demonstration of Taylor's theorem but also those of the Binomial are mainly considered defective. These objections 'are much like those which Geometers make to the doctrine of Parallel lines'- both objections get in the way of investigation.

Kensington. My men will be at your house for the letters, very early to-morrow morning. By day-light, at the latest....They are going to Billingsgate, for fish, at the same time.

Kensington. Invites him to dinner

Kensington. Invites him to a meeting over dinner in order to make arrangements for the business of the following day at the Freemason's Tavern

Kensington. Wishes him to go to Mr Dean to find out how best to go about becoming a Freeman

JH sends a certificate in favour of Ritchie who wants to become a fellow of the Royal Society. Would WW also sign it and if [Adam] Sedgwick is around get him to add his name.

JH has felt obliged to burn Mr Ritchie's certificate: as Secretary of the Royal Society he ought not 'exercise the privilege of a member in that respect' [see JH to WW, 20 Jan. 1827].

Keswick - If WW is in Cambridge could he correct the proofs to his paper on Trigonometry for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: 'I have just got a letter from [Edward] Smedley who is in an awful fright about it...If you take this upon you, would it be worth the trouble to say so to Smedley? he would then send proofs directly'.

Pier Hotel, Ryde. Trip aboard 'The Independence'

Keswick - GA has just received a letter from Thomas Atkinson of Ainstable 'with a certificate from Hudson, which I transmit to you as being (I believe) Hudson's successor' [concerning TA's entry into Trinity College?].

Trinity College Cambridge - GA agrees with WW that his article on eye pieces should be printed immediately. If WW can arrange this, could he pass on the address of the printers and engraver. He has received the latest number of the Philosophical Journal which contains two letters by James Ivory about GA: 'I wish the man would not torment me by writing letters to me; I am amused by his idea that I have fallen into error from deference to high authorities; I never expected this accusation'.

Kensington. requests Mr Riley to arrange for £400 to be bought to him

Fleet Street. Wishes to see him

Requires salmon for smoking

Encloses item for Mr Hendy [wanting]

Chilworth. Paper is made, sending specimens, profit on the Register, has drawn something up for the Board of Excise but needs to see a copy of the Paper Law

Kensington. Wishes to see him.

Kensington. Requests copies of the reports of the Emigration Committee, bills from Slaney and Horton

Kensington. Wishes to see him "To-morrow after 5 O'clock".