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Chiefswood by Melrose - WW for his long letter: 'How pleasant it is to have a good old fashioned grand epistle!' JDF is especially grateful for the attention WW gave his remarks on colours and the reference to Merimee, but thinks the diagram WW refers to has some defects. JDF prefers the triangular arrangement of Mayers to the concentric circles of Merimee [he gives the diagrams], since 'the true relations of the colours to one another and to grey are preserved'. He has received some correspondence generated by his recent paper on the application of probabilities to doublestars ['On the Alleged Evidence for a Physical Connexion between Stars forming Binary or Multiple Groups, arising from their Proximity Alone', London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, August 1849]: 'not one of whom seems to entertain any doubt that Mitchell and all his followers were labouring under a complete deception, when they considered the calculus of probabilities applicable to such a question'. JDF went to the BAAS meeting in Birmingham: 'the most prosaic that I have been at ; no marked failure, no enthusiasm or great success...The depreciated value of our Transactions strikes everyone, even the 'Athenaeum'!' JDF can give no information on the subject of the life and letters of Newton, but has heard that David Brewster wants a copyright which nobody will give. He is pleased the Trinity College MSS are to be printed. JDF has been to the Orkney and Shetland Islands with Mr and Mrs Airy.

Clifton - WW is probably aquainted with the work of Count Valerian Krasinski - the author of the History of the Reformation in Poland. Krasinski is now desirous of giving a course of lectures at Cambridge, and hopes he can obtain the patronage of the Chancellor and heads of houses to sanction the proposal.

RS congratulates WW on being made Master of Trinity and on his marriage to Cordelia Marshall: 'in the note which you sent me (I was abroad some weeks after that time and did not receive it till my return) you expressed a wish that I should come and help to administer the republic [Trinity College]. RS does not want to: 'I need scarcely say again, what long experience has convinced me of, that with the same object in view, no persons can differ more in the way of pursuing it than you and I do'. He has 'no doubt the college will go on well and prosper under your guidance. I may be doubtful whether your system is the best of all that are conceivable, but carried out simply and uniformly, it will be far better than mixed up with something quite different'. However RS feels he could be of use concerning the college statutes: 'I have always admired the original scheme and think that with a few adaptations, it is better suited to what we want than the innovations which interfered with it'. He supports his claim with examples. RS must leave the country for health reasons.

Royal Literary Fund, 7 Adelphi Terrace, W.C. - Clarifies that the money sent earlier is a gift, not income, and therefore not taxable.

13 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn - States definitively that 'ius primae noctis' is now thought to have never existed.

34A Via Porta Pinciana, The Times, Roma - Thanks him for the [second edition of] 'The Golden Bough'.

Trinity College - WW is not particularly surprised that he has not received RJ's preface ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation: Part 1. - Rent', 1831]: 'But I shall be much vexed if you again get into the way of letting days and weeks slip away without doing anything'. WW hopes the deliberate fires have stopped in RJ's part of the country.

Haileybury - A friend of William Empson's, John Haviland's and to a certain extent RJ's, Mr Banfield, 'is very ambitious to deliver a course of lectures on some points of political economy at Cambridge - and has asked me to help him to get leave'. Banfield 'is a respectable man[,] an acute man and a man who thinks for himself - he is familiar with German writers and German statistics and has much to say which is new in England and which may prove very interesting and permission to give a course of lectures might I think safely and perhaps profitably be given him'. RJ is 'beginning to be worried with parliamentary work and what a parliament it is to govern 120 millions of people - but it is more likely to get worse than better so we may as well cherish it'.

Mattishall - thanks him for the lithograph of Trench, Arnold has been retracing Hannibal's journey across the Alps, protectionism of Peel, reviews of Hegel and Mill in the British and Foreign Review written by an Apostle

Enclosing verse by her husband George D. P. Keating

Miscellaneous correspondence re Summer School of Music, Dartington, which Frisch regularly attended and where he occasionally lectured.

'Further Topics in Algebra' lecture notes.

Correspondence re gramicidin. Ekstrand writes from the Central Laboratories, AB Astra, Södertälje, Sweden.

13 pp. ms. draft and heavily corrected first proof, 16 pp.

Used by Synge in the summer term at Old Hall Preparatory School.

19 Draycott Avenue, Chelsea S.W.3. - Thanks Frazer for his letter, refers to the reception of his own essay on thought transference; gives many examples of the spread of cultures from west to east on account of westerly prevailing winds; quotes a speech by Cetewayo, the King of the Zulus, recorded by John Dunn, which echoes Bede and oriental writings of 3,000 years ago, and notes Rider Haggard used the speech in 'King Solomon's Mines' without attribution.