Item 59 - Letter from James W. L. Heaviside

8 pp

JH has asked someone [page torn] to review the book [Literary Remains, Consisting of Lectures and Tracts on Political Economy, of the late Rev Richard Jones, 1859] in the Edinburgh Review. He has also had a copy sent to Sir James Stephen - although JH has heard that Stephen has been involved in an accident while 'on one of his walks'. Further, Stephen wants nothing more to do with the Edinburgh, while of the book he writes: ''I have read a considerable part of it and the result is to convince me that he [Richard Jones] was a vigorous and original thinker, but an indifferent writer, one of those men whose real function or fate it is, to bring together the raw material for better Artists to work up into popular books. John Mill, has, I think, largely used him for this purpose''. JH concludes from this that Stephen would not be averse to a review and that it would be sufficiently favourable. He would also introduce some remarks about the Indian Civil Service. JH gives information concerning notices for the book.

First leaf torn, with missing text.