Item 35 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

4 pp.

RJ had no time to see WW after voting in the senate: 'Herschel [John Herschel] was delirious with anxiety to get away...and allowed me not one minute to find someone else to go with him and so I was carried off most reluctantly'. With regard to the application to the Syndicate [concerning the possible printing of his work on wages] - 'I should be ungrateful to your kindness if I did not send you up what M.S. I have'. WW should only apply if he is certain of success. RJ 'will attend to what you say about wages and state distinctly that I mean to treat of the subsistence and reward earned by the laboring classes whether received in the shape of time from another or in any other shape[.] Wages is however perpetually used both in writing and conversation to denote that subsistence or reward in its largest sense and unless taken in that sense it is not a division of wealth entitled to much consideration - hired labourers constitute a very minute faction of the labouring class throughout the globe - the question of population and many others demand and make obviously necessary a more comprehensive view of the rewards of labor'. RJ could do with the sheets of Barthold Niebuhr Julius Hare promised him [Julius Hare and Connop Thirlwall trans. Niebuhr's 'History of Rome', 2 vols., 1828 and 1831].