Item 77 - Letter from Richard Sheepshanks

4 pp.

Thanks WW for the £100 [see RS to WW, 7 Dec. 1826]. RS has been riding a great deal : 'I told him [RS's horse riding master] that if I had any friend staying with me I should expect the privilege of letting him have any part or number of my lessons without subscribing for a number which he might not want'. So if WW wants to come up for a lesson or two he can. RS was about to write to George Airy to congratulate him upon being elected to Newton's chair: 'I am not afraid of his making an easy seat of as I. Milner [Isaac Milner] did, by squatting his head neck upon a pod of putty'.