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WW will not be able to return to Cambridge for the elections due to his ongoing experiment in Cornwall [with George Airy] to measure the density of the earth: 'So pray if you have an opportunity represent to the electioneering people how much more important it is that they should know the weight of the earth, on which all parties tread, than that the weight of Lord P.'s [Lord Palmerston] party should be increased by the addition of unit me' [Account of Experiments made at Dolcoath Mine in Cornwall, 1828]. WW and GA are underground between 8 to 11 hours and seldom dine before 11 or 12 at night. Could JCH assist him with unfinished tutorial business (applications and accounts) while he is away.

death of Charles Mayor: Rugby.

Visit to John Cooper at Acton, met Mary Barnett, Mary Burton and Martha Hassall, visit to the Boys School, visit to Dorfold: Coppenhall

Transcript of letter from Robert Mayor to John Mayor [B2/10] and letter to [ ] Mayor 12 Oct. 1818

Resolution of Church Missionary Society committee on their children's education, sending clothes and books, visit to continent, thinks Ceylonese idolatory can be no worse than in Catholic countries: Church Missionary House

Including copy of letter, 13 Mar. 1819 from Christopher Wilson of Ledston (see HOUG/BP/3/11-16) and Mitton's reply of the same day.

Public Record Office.—Discusses the arrangement of text.

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Public Record Office
7th Decr 1874

My dear Sir

I agree with you entirely that it would be better to have the notes at the foot of the page of the text to which they refer, but I think that additional lines, if numerous, would be best in an Appendix: this arrangement would represent the Cotton Ms.

Perhaps, however, it would be well, to have some portions set up in type: in one instance placing the notes and additional lines at the foot of the page, and in the other placing the notes only at the foot of the page, and giving intimation there that the additional lines will be in the Appendix.

Ever faithfully yours
T. Duffus Hardy

You had better adhere to the punctuation in the Ms. and discard the modern.

Embossed notepaper: 1 Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge.

12 Cork St, B[urlington] G[ardens], London. - Is recommending Thomas Hood's son Tom for a place at the Charterhouse; asks Milnes to use influence with Lord Wharncliffe or one of the other governors to secure presentation. Postscript. - Admires Lord Dudley Stuart's defence of the woman recently molested by the police - 'It is not by treating them as dogs, that we shall make them more like women'.

Tavistock House, London, W.C. - Acknowledges Milnes' £10 for Marguerite Power; the Emperor gave a 'convent-Dowry' to Ellen of five thousand francs.

Account of inauguration of monument to David Gray.