Item 31 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

4 pp.

Old Hummums - WW gives the value and etymology of the hectare. Sends RJ a pamphlet [by Brereton?] which he thinks gives 'lots of support to your speculations - or if you disdain this - of coincidence with your results - as to the increase of population having occurred in the non-agricultural classes, while the number of the cultivators have been stationary or in some instances declined - of the greater steadiness of labour produced by the new agriculture - of the bad effects of the poor laws upon the people and of the magistrates on the poor laws - of the sufficiency of the demand for labour and various other laudable lucubrations'. WW has purchased one or two other pamphlets - one being 'On the Price of Corn and Wages of Labour' by Edward West. WW likes the pamphlet he has sent RJ because 'all the facts naturally find their place in the theory as they rise'. He has sent RJ a map of the world which he wants him 'to paint in the most brilliant colours by which rent can be represented'.