Item 146 - Letter from Julius Charles Hare

6 pp.

Herstmonceux - JCH and Esther Hare hope they will be able to come to Cambridge in May for two or three days. Although it is likely it will coincide with WW's trip to London for the Westminster scholarships. JCH hopes John F. D. Maurice 'will get the Readership at Lincoln's Inn, as it will combine so much better than Guy's with his work at King's: but it is by no means a clear matter'. JCH has begged Maurice to write to WW to ask for a reference - is WW sufficiently intimate with Lord Brougham to canvass him? JCH has 'been engaged in a conflict with an old opponent of yrs, Sir W. Hamilton of Edinburgh, & have been dealing out divers hardish blows'. Hamilton's attacks upon Luther are particularly disgraceful and unfounded. JCH acknowledges that Hamilton also hits hard blows, 'But he will have to defend himself; & he will find that as difficult a matter as the sikhs do, after their predatory erruptions'. If WW has any thought in publishing his volume on hexameters, JCH would be happy to contribute. JCH is sorry to hear of Thomas Worsley's riding accident.