| Reports that he has been away to see the Robertsons, is now 'in a rush of politics.' Announces that he comes to Cambridge the following day, but will probably be unable to do much. States that he has written to H.G..D[akyns] about Frank Vivian, and undertakes to send NS his reply when it comes. Encloses 'the "Scope and Method" ' [not included]. In relation to the date of the establishment of the Ad Eundem, states that his records go back only as far as 1868 when Jackson was elected, but that his diary shows that he attended an Ad Eundem dinner on 9 June 1866. |