Item 64 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

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Haileybury - Thanks WW for his tracts - 'I have read mine as you may imagine with pleasure because you know how completely I share your views - I sincerely think the banishment of the obsolete geometry which you and others effected in your youth a much less substantial benefit than that you will confer if you can make the mathematics of Cambridge a course of sound logical discipline ['Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics as Part of a Liberal Education', 1835]. Drinkwater [John Elliot Drinkwater] who occasionally spars at your philosophy goes along with you here he tells me altogether so he is in a fair way to be wholly converted I trust'. Drinkwater has recently 'been appointed a sort of draftsman to the Home Office he has instructions to prepare plans for 4 bills on church matters and has asked and got leave to take me into council - we have produced a sketch of a tithe bill which I think thoroughly good but it has not yet been accepted at head quarters - I am as pleased as I can be in my present state of spirits with having got again some hold on a measure I have always continued to persuade myself ought not to be settled without aid from my wisdom (all this is between ourselves)'. The fate of Haileybury [East India College] is still under consideration.