Item 19 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

Trinity College - Why has he not seen or heard from RJ this summer? 'Sheepshanks [Richard Sheepshanks] has been down and has used my garden as an observatory with great industry. - He confines himself principally to the kind of astronomy which you despise so much and which consists in seeing that the stars pass the meridian at the proper time - I suppose you would not suspect him much more than a person who notices exactly the times of which the stage coach passes his door'. RJ will stay some time when he presents his university sermon. 'I must also always request to be remembered to your Polit. Econ. as a personage that I have a great affection for and hope to be better acquainted with shortly. - What is come of your projects of becoming a vicar?'