Item 166 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

2 pp.

Trinity College - Things 'are all going wrong here and I dare say shall soon be in a condition quite insolvable. Thirlwall [Connop Thirlwall] has published a pamphlet on the Dissenters question' ['A Letter to the Rev. Thomas Turton, on the Admission of Dissenters to Academical Degrees', 1834]. Subsequently, the Master [Christopher Wordsworth] has asked him to resign which he duly did: 'The Whigs are a bitter set, and not very scrupulous, and I dare say will do something to shew their wrath'.