Item 5 - William Whewell to Julius Charles Hare

4 pp.

WW is sorry he is late executing JCH's request: 'Some days elapsed before I got Bonney's life [Henry Kaye Bonney, Life of Jeremy Taylor, 1815], and again before I could arrange with Scholefield [James Scholefield] to see the Register, so that I did not examine it till this morning'. Scholefield claimed Bonney had made all the researches which were likely to be of use. WW gives his findings concerning Taylor. Now is a good time for JCH to visit: 'Your Wordsworth [William Wordsworth] is here at present on a visit to his brother'. By all accounts 'he is very much like other people - which, in spite of your doctrine that such matters are always exactly as they ought to be, I maintain to be a most unaccountable phenomenon, and an absurd want of violation of common rules'.