Additional Manuscripts c

Nothing has yet been done about reinvesting WW and Cordelia Whewell's marriage trust of 10, 000 pounds [see WW to RJ, 5 July 1850]. The four percent offer to reinvest the sum in the Lancaster and [?] Railway does not seem very attractive: 'If you can suggest anything better I shall be glad'. John Brown has died: 'he was the last of his generation; the first lecturer in whose room I sat, one of the rulers of the college ever since I have been in the college'.