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Letters dated 26 Jan. [1842] - 15 July 1843.

AS thanks EA for her concern. He caught a cold yesterday: 'I know not how, unless it be that I have taken too much care of myself; and with a new cough and a sore throat I must not come out'.

Seven letters.

AS cannot attend EA's party this evening as he has a bad cough.

Naples, Italy - JWL has been taking singing lessons in counterpoint from a top Italian teacher. Gives news of his travels to various places including the summit of Vesuvius. JWL sends his best to Mr Hamilton and Mr Sedgwick if they are in Cambridge, and hopes 'Mr Hamilton's book will do something towards introducing algebraical analysis at Cambridge'.

Trinity College - WW is sorry RJ has been ill. However, he is annoyed that RJ did not send his manuscript and get on with the printing of his book ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation: Part 1. - Rent', 1831]. RJ should think about coming to hear Adam Sedgwick's lectures - 'the first 3 days of each week at 1 o'clock'.

On AS's return he found an invitation to the Lodge 'tomorrow', but since it does not have a date he is unsure whether he has missed the day or not. He has been to a chapter meeting in Norwich.

RJ has shown the dedication and preface ['The History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time ', 3 vols., 1837] to Drinky [Drinkwater?] who has made some remarks which RJ disagrees with: 'I do not think you have spoken too much of yourself in the preface and I like it much but look at Drinky's notes'. RJ was examined in front of a committee at the House of Commons yesterday. RJ has heard that Adam Sedgwick is to made the Bishop of Norwich.

WDC is sorry that he wasted any of WW's time. He had thought both WW and Sedgwick had attributed to him an unfounded degree of ignorance which made him annoyed. WDC is now flattered with the attention WW has paid him over his query, which accept for 'some differences rather metaphysical than physical between us' has been settled. When he first made it he only had Faraday's papers before him and had forgot to look at 'earlier writers and see if they had not determined the law of the tangential electro magnetic force, which of course would give me the result I sought as to the Time of revolution by the simplest process'. Barlow [Peter Barlow?] has found the tangential force of galvanic particles on magnetic to be inversely as the squares of the distances and therefore the Times will be directly as the squares of the distances. WW corrects him on his notion of force; 'its strict definition as the cause of change of motion'. WDC accepts this as long as one agrees that motion exists in the first place: 'but here physics seems to me to pass into metaphysics and I cannot conceive but that, recurring to the origin of things a state of rest is more natural than a state of motion - Hence I have a lurking fancy to understand by force not only the cause of a change of existing motion but the original cause of the motion whatsoever...if a tangential force had not been impressed in them at their creation, they would all have huddled together in an heap'.

Has had the portrait packed and sent to Trinity.

AS sends the item which contains a report of the proceeding of the Royal Society and St. Andrews Day.

AS returns to WW 'the splendid work on Jerusalem. What does WW think of [Tennyson's?] articles and hypothesis on Jerusalem in the Dictionary of the Bible? - 'whatever the issue he has argued the case well'. AS is going to London to conduct an investigation 'into the mental state of my unhappy nephew'. AS is suffering from the effects of a cold.

AS will be back sometime between the 15th and 20th. Could WW get Smith to publish a notice of his lectures in the usual way. 'During the last two months I have been toiling hard against the Snowdonian hills and have done some work which I will tell you of when we meet'.