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'Testimonia Veterum De Personis Typicis Comoediae Recentioris' etc. Gow's first unsuccessful Fellowship dissertation?

'The Stock Characters of Later Greek and of Roman Comedy, with some account of their origin and influence'.

Flendyshe, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. - '...a. most admirable piece of work...'

St. Anthony in Roseland, Nr. Porthscatho, Cornwall. - 'I understand that you collect ploughs...'. With drawing of plough.

Staatliche Museen, Berlin.

23 Suffolk St., Pall Mall - JDF's days in Cambridge 'were some of the happiest of my life'. He regrets that he did not have the opportunity to have had 'a systematic education within the walls of Trinity'. JDF is devoted to the pursuit of the physical sciences: 'in the present state of Science a liberal basis of mathematical knowledge is indispensable to its successful prosecution'. JDF has never had a lesson in mathematics and has taught himself from book one of Euclid to the integral calculus. 'It is one of the current mistakes of the present popularizing system to imagine that difficulties in the pursuit of knowledge are confined to the lower classes'. Could WW point out to him a course of study to assist his work in the theory of heat and the science of meteorology.

Typescript and photomechanical copies of typescript pages of tables of information relating to King's Hall (a) long-tenured King's Hall fellowships, (b) evidence for survey of probable geographical origins of King's Scholars, (c) Cambridge civil law graduates (late thirteenth to mid-fifteenth century, (d) list of all known King's Hall commoners and semi-commoners, (e) list of King's Scholars who took the M.A. and/or degrees in the superior faculties between 1317 and 1450, (f) list of children and clerks of the chapel royal admitted to the King's Hall between 1382 and 1417, (g) evidence for numerical analysis of committees of King's Hall seneschals, (h) lists of King's Hall ex-fellow pensioners.
A note on the first page records that the material was placed here after it was decided to omit these intended appendices from the printed book.

Specifying the objectives of the late Earl of Bridgewater's will with regard to the production of a set of eight treatises displaying God's power, wisdom and goodness as manifested in design, and the names of the eight individuals elected to write the Bridgewater treatises.

RIM will not be attending the BAAS meeting at Cambridge for various reasons, but mainly because of Adam Sedgwick's dislike of him: 'If I did not feel that he had irresolvably made up his mind to be alienated from me, I would still make every effort in my power to win back his friendship. For a long time and even during our gelogical disputes about nomenclature, he declared that they never could or should interupt our friendship and I am at a loss to know why in the last years he has become so morose and unforgiving' [see Adam Sedgwick to Everina Affleck, 25 September 1862].

One of a group of letters concerning the visitorial powers of the Bishop of Ely.

Page proof of Todhunter's Rev. William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, An Account of his Writings with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence with corrections throughout. Lacks 3 gatherings of the second volume, pp. 369-416. Probably J. L. Hammond's copy. Accompanied by a printed appeal for Whewell's letters signed in print by J. L. Hammond.

Claims that he is having difficulty in collecting 'the opinions and emendations of all interested in the welfare of the Univers[ity]. Mentions that he gave Mr Martineau a copy of Sidgwick's alterations, of which he approves and adds 'a suggestion of another'. Asks Sidgwick to look at it and return it to him with comments. Mentions that he has received Sidgwick's note and enclosure that morning, and assures him that he will introduce the corrections mentioned

Most printed extracts; one typewritten copy. With list: 'Sunday numbers of the Spectator containing contributions by Henry Sidgwick'

Offer to Patterson and [Gyula?] Lanczy of rooms in Trinity College during the vacation.

Was not able to attend her lecture, wishes she "could make women feel their minds are worth cultivation".

6 Duke Street, Adelphi.—Discusses the drafting of a patent for a telegraphic receiving instrument.

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Decr 18. 1867.
6 Duke St Adelphi.

Dear Thomson

The date by which the ink recording patent must be completed is the 23d of January. but the drawings should be begun at once. We must clearly not trouble Varley any more, I am afraid he really is ill.

I will draw up a short specification of the mirror galvanometer as adapted for a speaking instrument and submit it to your criticism. I do not think the patent need be identical with the Newfoundland patent. I should propose to call the patent an improved form of telegraphic receiving instrument or some such title.

This would leave the use of a reflecting galvanometer quite free—in the States. If we do not do this I fear we may be defeated by the manufacture or import of instruments which we cannot keep out by establishing a custom house service of our own and that when men have once got the patent instmt they will say they may use it as they like and that the instruments are in common use for many purposes besides telegraphy so that even if we did get a verdict it would be for a merely nominal sum.

My idea of the true patent is as if the Morse having been the common telegraphic instmt and galvanometers or detectors in common use for testing, some one has found out that the common detector could be used as a single needle instmt.

We might have drawn up the following laconic patent. “I use the ordinary detector as a receiving instrument, the the letters of the alphabet being indicated by one or more deflections on each side of the zero point”. I apprehend this would have been a valuable and valid patent.

Yrs vy truly
Fleeming Jenkin

Written from Chatteris, possibly by the grandmother of Sarah Dunn Gardner to her sister Mrs Hake in Peterborough about the plans for a visit, and the death of Mr Snell, rumoured to be by suicide. The verso was used for household accounts from 18 December to 13 January, no year given.