Item 165 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

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Herstmonceux, Hailsham - JCH hopes to come to Cambridge in mid-November for a couple of days: 'There is so much I want to hear from you both about persons and things. Where is Thirlwall [Connop Thirlwall]? I have heard nothing of him since he went abroad in June. I hope you do not find that your controversy has produced any coolness between you. It certainly ought not: for he felt the friendliness of your first pamphlet, and this feeling must assuredly have been strengthened by the second. Still it will be long before he can feel at home among you again' [see JCH to WW, 1 June 1834]. Has WW seen William Wordsworth - 'I rejoice to see from the British Magazine that we are to have a new volume of poems from him soon. Alas, he is now the only object of veneration left in England'. Since JCH saw WW Samuel Coleridge has died. John Sterling thinks a monument for Coleridge should be established at Cambridge on the philosophy of Christianity: 'The plan delighted me the moment I heard of it; and I hope in a few days to send you a sketch of some proposals to be circulated with a view to raising subscriptions for the purpose' [see JCH to WW, 25 Oct. 1834]. JCH is working on an edition of his his brother's, Augustus Hare, parish sermons. Meanwhile the third volume of Niebuhr's History of Rome has yet to be done.