Item 170 - Letter from Travers Twiss

3 pp.

Thanks WW for a copy of Grotius ['Hugonis Grotii De jure belli et pacis; accompanied by an abridged translation by WW with the notes of the author, Barbeyrac and others', 3 vols., 1853]: 'I am very happy that such a work should have appeared from the Cambridge University Press under your auspices. I cannot but think that the study of the Law of Nations, I use the term in its popular sense, should find a place in the 'curriculum' of a liberal education - more especially as the tendency of municipal institutions is to one or other extreme of absolute monarchy, or absolute ochlocracy - and in either case, witness the Principality in the one hemisphere, and [lubu?] in the other, certain principles of international morality run risk of being overlooked'.