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Brasted - RJ has received a very positive letter from Lord Lansdowne concerning RJ's book ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and the Sources of Taxation', 1832]: 'he had read it with the attention it so eminently deserves'. Having thus read the book he concluded that they [Ricardians] had fallen 'into error by reasoning too much from narrow grounds and that he values proportionably better views - sound inductions etc.'. Lansdowne wants RJ to call on him when in London. 'I am pleased - it is a good and leading opinion gained and apparently strongly gained and apparently strongly pronounced and you whose reputation is more than half committed to the book will not I am sure be above being pleased too'.

4 leaves of a diary.

Opening of the letter is preceded by a poem of 7 verses by Robert Leslie Ellis dated 12 Jan. 1848.

He admits that Columbus' egg is a myth. Discusses the relationship of obtuseness or acuteness of sides to obtuse and acute angles in a spherical triangle and proposes a theorem; has found nothing in the literature of the affections of oblique triangles. Accompanied by a drawing of a [spherical triangle?] with the note, "Yours came in after I had written the above. You are right, as here appears."

Glenlair – Reacts to news of Robert Henry Pomeroy’s death in the Indian rebellion and reflects at length on memory and grief; a little girl in one of his men’s houses has died; is at home for a month with his aunt Mrs [Isabella] Wedderburn.

Glenlair. Has been at Aberdeen, is now on holiday with friends, invites Litchfield, mentions friends Robert Henry Pomeroy and Wilfred Lucas Heeley, discusses different ways of summing up the personalities of friends.

The fifth of five boxes containing letters from William Whewell to his family (Add.MS.c.191-193), arranged roughly chronologically.

Trinity Lodge - WW has read RJ's lectures and is ready to discuss them with him: 'They appear to me to be full of the most valuable matters, delivered in most places with great force. But I think they may and ought to be made a little more symmetrical and methodical'. RJ should draw up an analytical table like the one WW suggested for the first five lectures [see WW to RJ, 28 March 1852]. There is a review of WW's lectures on morality in the Westminster Review ['Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England', 1852, and 'Elements of Morality, including Polity', 1845, Westminster Review, October 1852]: 'It is plainly John Mill and I am rather amused to hear what is the amount of what can now be said of the best of Bentham's [Jeremy Bentham] school in favour of their master'. Mill wants to put the result of their controversy on the following issue: 'Whether the pleasures of animals - pigs, geese, lions for instance - are of the same moral value as those of man. He says yes, I say no. As to other matters he accuses me, as I accuse Bentham of reasoning in a circle'.

Trin. Coll. [Robert Henry] Pomeroy has formed a swimming club at Cambridge; has been busy with electrical reading this term and is working to come up with appropriate ideas, has been ‘sifting’ the theory of light and making everything stand upon experiments and definite assumptions, describes the difference between dogs eyes and human eyes.

Glenlair. Discusses travel plans, invites him to visit, is looking for a tutor for a friend’s two boys.

18 India Street, Edinburgh. Describes his travels, including coming to the rescue of a woman afraid of some Wolverhampton revellers on the journey there, visits to family, mentions he was photographed four times at Peniciuk because of the light levels; J. F. MacLennan has been getting on with his “Law.”

Glenlair. His aunt Mrs Wedderburn has learned of the murders of her cousin John Wedderburn and his wife and child in the Indian rebellion, and her son John and his wife in Moultan have had to disarm troops and dismiss others; is glad to have read the letter [Robert Henry Pomeroy’s last?]; reflects on Good and Evil; has almost finished with his work on Saturn’s Rings; illness continues in the house of the little girl who died.

129 Union Street, Aberdeen. Describes his work in Aberdeen, has found better textbooks by Galbraith & Haughton; has got up a model to show the motions of the rings of satellites; shares what he has been reading; comments on the Senior Wranglers and Smith’s prize men, has a student that he hopes will stay out of a small college “where boating billiards beer &c are more immediate paths to distinction that the pursuit of wisdom either mathematical, classical or social.”

Includes a letter from J. D. Gregory, 31 Oct. 1907 and a letter from Charlotte Warre Cornish dated 3 Oct. 1899.