Item 51 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

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Trinity College - WW 'cannot but be amused to imagine what an awful person I must be when you dare scarcely trust me with your fears and hesitation about your printing'. WW wants to get his mineralogical system printed: 'While you work for years in the elaboration of slowly growing ideas, I take the first buds of thought and...without trying what patience and labour might do in ripening and perfecting them'. Pryme [George Pryme] has been elected Professor of Political Economy today.