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Fryston Hall, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. - Offers article on Humboldt at the Court of Berlin - can give personal impressions, having met him there.

St. Augustin - HC is 'now flourishing about in Paris'. He went to the Institut yesterday where his 'friend Biot' introduced him to, among others, Laplace, Delambre, Arago, Cuvier, Gay Lussac and Humboldt. It is a custom for the savants to have soirées one morning a week for their friends and strangers - Humboldt has offered to take HC to Laplace's tomorrow. He has gained entry into this elite circle thanks to a lady who talks Persian and brought letters of introduction to Humboldt, and through his own acquaintance with Thomas Edward Bowdich [famed for his travels into Africa] currently living in Paris.

Miscellaneous quotations and epigrams from various sources, including Alexander von Humboldt and Lord Rayleigh.

Balliol College, Oxford. - Account of Dindorf's proposals for the publication of a manuscript by Uranius which was subsequently found to be a forgery by C. Simonides. 'Pertz's information is very curious'; asks if it is 'all an abstract of entries made at the time, since it differs in some respects from Scott's recollection of what was said at the time. Discusses his own recollections, mentioning Bekker, Böckh, Magnus, Lepsius, Bunsen, Ehrenberg, Tischendorf, and Humboldt. Dindorf tells him that Sir T. Phillipps has, amongst other things purchased from Simonides, an extract from Homer 'with an extract purporting that "the Archon of Chios gave this to Hipparchus, son of Peisistratus"; and another of Hesiod, written βουστροφηδόν - !'.

Copy in hand of W. Aldis Wright.