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- [20 Dec. 1851?] (Creation)
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4 pp.
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The doctors opened another one of RJ's tumors. He is feeling very weak. He received WW's lecture - 'we all like it here Empson [William Empson] especially I think' ['The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition of the Progress of Art and Science', 1851]. WW's 'analogy between the relations of Criticism to Literature and Science to Art strikes me as very interesting [-] you subsequently distinguish between science as the exponent of art and the mother of art now I think this distinction a pregnant one - would it be worth your while to follow it up and give a table of instances - the first vintage or if that is not a work you would like could you not get some younger hand at the task - It would tell as the subject expands'. RJ's 'own projects are just what they were. I wish I could see any thing likely to be done when parliament meets - but I am passive and in good hands. Ld. Monteagle [Thomas Spring-Rice] has shewn a very kind interest in me'.