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- 26 Dec. 1830 (Creation)
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4 pp.
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London - WW sends a few more corrections for RJ to make to his preface ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation: Part 1. - Rent', 1831]. WW agrees with RJ 'entirely as to the importance of the distinction between the mode of incidence of moral and physical will but I do not see why you should be dissatisfied with the way in which you have expressed it'. WW has been working at his inductive history of chemistry: 'I never spend half an hour on the subject without making out something new and pertinent'. He is 'disposed to be of your opinion with regard to the R.S. [John Herschel losing the election to become President of the Royal Society] and so far as I can make out all Herschel's friends are disposed to give the old lady over...What will come of this I do not exactly see nor much care'.