Item 34 - William Whewell to Julius Charles Hare

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WW would have willingly stayed in London 'a couple of days longer, even in the heat of July, Pall Mall, and politics, if I had known that there was a prospect of seeing any of them' [Lady Malcolm and family]. WW is to go northwards with the hope of seeing William Wordsworth, hills, lakes and locks. Has JCH heard anything of Thirlwall?: 'I wish often that you were here again, for in spite of the absence of all ill will, on all sides, I feel as if there might be some difficulty in moving the footing in which we formerly were; and many of our friends are now so engaged in politics, and so far thrown off their balance by controversy' that he can no longer depend upon them.