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- [1 July 1820] (Creation)
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3 pp.
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The Master of Trinity has died and Christopher Wordsworth is favourite to replace him: 'If this turn out so, he shall invite his brother here [William Wordsworth] and you shall come and meet him and we will be the most practical and psychological college in the universe - though certainly some of us are bad materials for such an edifice'. WW is glad to see JCH in print [JCH's translation of 'Sintram', 1820] but hopes he doesn't get stuck as simply a translator of 'German novels for the conversion of the heathen - your preface I perceive abuses unfortunate people who are puzzled with the connexion between the mind and the soul as I used to be and who try by anatomizing to discover the way in which the flesh and muscles of the moral man act upon the 'wordy skeleton' of reason'.