Item 43 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

Trinity College - Hyde Hall 'with all its pleasures and its dangers is really and actually broken up'. WW 'liked and loved all the persons there so much that I must not look to find any other place where I shall be so happy or indeed in the same sense happy at all'. WW gives advice on dealing with the syndics of the University Press [see WW to RJ, 23 September 1827]. If RJ is asked why he wants it published by the Cambridge Press (rather than through the London booksellers which is the usual route for works on political economy) - 'I should reply that it seems to me that your work will be one, both from the object and the execution of it, which will do credit to any portion of the University...and that I am solicitous about it not on your account, so much as for the sake of gracing the university by associating its name with a book which must exercise so much influence and of so beneficial a kind on the science of Political Economy'. RJ should also stress that he is desirous - through his connection with the university - of 'connecting any success which your speculations may find, with your relation to her; and that your principles aspire to a scientific character which makes this connexion not inappropriate'. It would be good if RJ could get another person other than just WW to help sell it to the syndics - 'Jacob's [William Jacob] approbation would be good'.