Item 79 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

4 pp.

Tithe Commission - Has WW seen young Mill's book [John S. Mill, 'A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation', 1843]: 'there is much that must interest us. He bestows a length of tedious pages on the first elements of dialectics which will assuredly frighten the public. I have only just got through this and like the atmosphere I have arrived at pretty well - which is a pity - he called me a blood-hound you know and I should have liked to be able to lay at him a little more than I feel disposed to do after looking at the book'. RJ and Charlotte Jones are going to stay with John Herschel for a week in Kent. Haileybury has been rocked by internal quarrelling.