Stuk 28 - Letter from William Whewell to Julius Charles Hare

Hallsheads - JCH's congratulations on WW's engagement to Cordelia Marshall were particularly welcome: 'She is what you tell me the poet describes her to be, and will, I am persuaded, fulfil his predictions'. WW had long been feeling that his life at Cambridge was no longer morally and spiritually wholesome: 'I was desirous of marrying that I might become a better man, and I hope it may please God that the step may have that result...I trust you will think that though Cordelia is not perhaps the wife you would have expected me to chuse, I have chosen well, she is gentle and good and affectionate'. WW thinks they shall live mainly in Cambridge where he will continue to pursue his philosophy. He saw Ma-man with her husband a few days ago in London. [WW attaches a comical verse to the letter].