Item 5 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

WW was surprised to find RJ in Paris: 'Sheepshanks [Richard Sheepshanks] and I are preparing to take wing but it will be nearly a fortnight before we reach Paris'. Due to the lack of time, they have had to abandon their philosophical plans of becoming acquainted with 'its state, moral, political, literary and culinary'. From Paris they go to Switzerland, then to Italy and then back via Paris. Their plan is not definite and they would add a week on if they new they would meet up with RJ: 'I wish we could persuade you to take one more extensive ramble - you would be the better for it in your life afterwards and you may take the length and breadth and height of the French constitution at some future time when the edifice has settled into a more permanent form'.